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Frontpage: A new version of SimpleDifferentSince December 29th, a new version of our software has been powering SimpleDifferent.

Connect to your account to discover the improvements and innovations.
The improvements include: added captions for the pictures, Page optimization with metadata for Google, a smoother step-by-step process for your invitees as well as many other improvements.

Progress always has risks. If you encounter a problem with this new version, write to us!

Improvement: A fully renovated text editorThe copy&paste function has been re-written to facilitate the input of text from other web pages and more specifically from word processors such as Word or OpenOffice. From now on, the Bold and Italic commands will act normally. The old text editor has some unpleasant surprises when doing this. We have gotten rid of these. 

Discovery: Publish one or two Starter sites, it's free

• Being a SiteMaster means you own a SimpleDifferent account.
• A SiteMaster, like you, can manage as many websites as they wish in a single account.
• However! If your account already contains 2 free Starter sites, you won't be able to create a third one: you have to upgrade one of your Starter sites into a Pro site first.
• To upgrade to a Pro site: click the “Pay and Renew” tab in the “Account Preferences” panel. Choose the Starter site you want upgrade to Pro and validate your order. You can make the 30 US$ payment through our secure payment system, provided by Paypal.
• Click the “Create a new site” tab again: you will now be able to add a new Starter site to your account.

• Click the upper right icon in the editor: the “Account Preferences” panel will slide down. Click the “Create a new site” tab.
• Choose a name for this new site and the language that you will use to write it. Next, click the “Create website” button. Done! A local menu will show up in the upper left corner of the editor. It will help you navigate between your account's sites.

At home: Welcome David!SimpleDifferent has expanded our technical team with the addition of David, the newly appointed chief technical officer. The improvements that have taken place these past few weeks have been conducted under his leadership.

Frontpage: Optimization for Google and other search engines
Each page in your websites can now be enriched with metadata that will help search engines to understand your content.
To access this feature, click on the key icon at the top right of the page that you are editing. This will open a dedicated dialog for adding metadata. From here you can also see the new generation of tool tips which will guide you in choosing the best content for your metadata fields.

Improvement: Enjoy the improvements to SimpleDifferent
With each new version of SimpleDifferent, we correct problems and optimize the software. As we improve existing features we also add new ones. The sites you have already published will not automatically benefit from these improvements. In order to benefit from the changes you need to regularly update them: just click on the “Publish” button.

Discovery: Write to us, we take your comments seriously

• As you know, one of the reasons SimpleDifferent operates in "private mode" is to better serve the community of SiteMasters. We do read your contributions.
• A SiteMaster like you can have multiple reasons to contact us.
• Click on the icon at the top right of the editor: it opens the panel on "Account Preferences". Click on the "write to SimpleDifferent.
• Choose the theme of your message from the six themes. Then enter a title for your message in the "Subject".
• Clearly write your message. For example, to "report a bug or error" describe the problem and specify: the time and date, name and version of your browser and the name and version of your operating system.
• Click "Send mail". A confirmation message will be displayed.
• Your message will be read by the team and we will take the information to heart, even if we do not always reply.

At home: Steadily workingThe developers, Sine, Bever and David are still working hard, to clean, consolidate and prepare our code and hardware for a coming era of growth and new functionalities.