The Way Things Were For several years, our websites included a feature that allowed you to activate privacy features on PDFs that would automatically turn off your customers’ ability to print PDFs sent to them through your website. This way, printers could be confident that unscrupulous customers couldn’t take a PDF proof they receive and either print it themselves or
Scheduled Maintenance We’ve received word from our technology partner that the DesignEdit system will be undergoing some significant updates to the database. They have managed to perform nearly all of the updates while still keeping the system active, but there are some processes that much be installed while the system is inaccessible. Therefore, the DesignEdit tool will be unavailable on
If you’re a WebsitesForPrinters.com subscriber, this one’s for you…if you’re not, we hope this will grab your attention! Make Public Order Forms Private And Vice Versa Ever go to the trouble of building a fully custom order form, only to discover that what you actually needed was a private order form? Or built a custom private order form, when what
The One-click Way To Save Time We are pleased to announce that downloading the files your customers have provided with their orders just became a lot easier! Now, instead of clicking to download each individual file, you can click the folder icon with the down arrow (located next to the print-friendly icon) to download all files associated with an order
As you may recall, the publication of Design Tools Monthly has ended. We’ve now begun the phase-out process, and recently added a message to the Design Tools Monthly section of the website to notify your customers that it is drawing to a close: We’d like to think Design Tools Monthly could go on forever, but unfortunately it has reached the
Easier To Assign To Companies, Branches and Contacts This week, we turned our attention to refining the Document Library Editor tools in the Control Center. In the Customers section of the Document Library Editor, we’ve made it easier to find the right company, branch or contact and assign your document to them. Now, when your search results find a single
This week, we’ve added the ability to give your proofs a non-geeky plain-English name. Now, instead of getting just the file name which may or may not mean anything to the client, you can also assign a name to the proof. That name will appear in all the same places that a product name would appear in your workflow and
Now it’s easier for your customers to find their previous orders Continuing our “popcorn updates,” this week we added a search tool that your customers can use to locate previous orders. These new tools allow your customers to search by date, keyword, and even type of order, like estimates, files sent, and standard orders. This makes it easier for your
With DesignEdit completed, we’re now turning our attention to a series of “popcorn updates” — small changes that can be made to the website in a relatively short timeframe. The impact of any single update is slight, but as a whole they combine to make the website simpler to use and more reliable. This week, the most notable popcorn update
New Text Editor Added To Level 2 And Level 3 Sites If you’ve done any customization work on your new Level 2 or Level 3 site in the past, you may have found that our WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor used to make some of your edits feel more like what we’ve been lovingly calling a