Build Product News

BuildCMS's News Reader Pages allow your site to automatically collect news and events from sources across the web and display them together, providing a constantly updated news feed. This not only keeps your site current but takes the work out of trawling for news. Once you've set it up, your site will always display the very latest news. And if... [read more]

If you use Windows 7 and haven't already received the new version of Internet Explorer, it will be with you soon. Microsoft has been rolling out Internet Explorer 10 for several weeks (it takes a while to upgrade over 700 million users), and most users now have it. And, of course, lucky Windows 8 users have had it since the autumn. If you haven'... [read more]

Polls are a great way to engage visitors to your site, allowing them to interact with your site and discover what other users feel about a topic. Instead of just passively receiving information from your site, they can become actively involved. And at the same time, you get to capture information important to your business. Now BuildCMS users can ad... [read more]

New today is an improved social networking box on all BuildCMS™ blogs and galleries. Several customers had mentioned that the previous version was taking up too much screen space, so we've redesigned the box, making it smaller as well as smoothing out the styling to make it easier on the eye. The Facebook Like button now sits alongside the T... [read more]

A recent EU law has toughened the regulations concerning privacy on the web. It requires all websites to do two things: 1. Have a privacy policy that can easily be found from any page of the site. 2. Gain consent from vistors before setting cookies (cookies are small text files used by websites to keep track of users and their preferences). BuildCM... [read more]

We're pleased to announce that we have added two new banner transitions to our banner rotator. Now, as well as the images fading in and out, they can slide in from the side of the page or perform an elegant "pan and zoom" effect. If you want to add impact to any web page on your BuildCMS site, get in touch and we can add a banner rotator t... [read more]

Keeping your BuildCMS blog up-to-date is now easier than ever - we have added a new button to the Quick Tools on all BuildCMS blogs that allows you to add new posts directly from your blog page. Clicking "New Post" in the Quick Tools will open a popup. Simply enter your new blog post then click save. That's it! Your new post has been a... [read more]

New in BuildCMS this week, we have added several features to let you finetune your pages. Take advantage of these changes now to increase your search engine rankings, make your pages easier to find and share and get traffic moving to your site. Aliases You can now give your pages alternative web addresses called Aliases. This would, for example, allow... [read more]

You now have much more control over how your BuildCMS mail forms appear. You can choose to have secondary page content placed beside your form to fill any white space there, or you can put it below the form if you need more room or have a narrower layout on your site. Just visit your BuildCMS tools pages and edit a mailform page. You will see a new dr... [read more]

You can now keep up to date with the latest news, changes and upgrades to BuildCMS on our Facebook page. Hop over there now, like us, and you'll get BuildCMS news posted straight to your news stream. www.facebook.com/pages/Build-CMS/243445422332369

Some users may have noticed that BuildCMS's Quick Tools have been missing for a while. We disabled them until we could tighten up their security. But now they're back, and we've added a new, very useful tool. In case you're not aware, Quick Tools allow you to edit your BuildCMS pages directly in the front end of your site. As long as you... [read more]

Ever wanted to tweak an image on one of your BuildCMS pages? It's now much easier with a new option we have added to the Image Uploader. Now, to replace an image you don't have to find it and delete it first, you can just click the "replace" radio button and upload an image with the same name. But don't worry. The default opti... [read more]

BuildCMS now boasts another great new feature - Quick Tools. Ever wanted to make a quick change to a page? Maybe you needed to correct a spelling mistake, add a new member of staff or change a telephone number. Or needed to move a page to a different section of your site. Now you no longer need to navigate to your tools pages to do so. If you see th... [read more]

As you may have noticed we have rebranded Homebuild as BuildCMS over the last few days. The platform has moved on so much from its humble roots that we thought it deserved a name more fitting its current form as an advanced contact management system. Over the years we've kept pace with the best CMSs out there (in fact we were around before the term... [read more]

Following hot on the heels of recent improvement to the Homebuild blog and gallery, we are happy to announce the release of improved mailform pages. Mailform pages are also known as contact pages; they're the pages which allow your visitors to get in touch with you. Before describing the new features we've introduced, a word of reassurance: desp... [read more]

Search engine optimisation doesn't need to be rocket science. In fact, there are some simple questions you can ask yourself to help you improve your site's rankings. What Does Google Want From your Site? Google wants your site to provide the best answer to a user's question. If it does you'll get the top spot in its listings. Your site n... [read more]

As users of Homebuild gallery pages may have noticed, we've implemented a few improvements. Overall the pages should be more responsive as we've made the code base more efficient. We have also added more spam filtering to the comments. Now, as wel as the CAPTCHA validation word, you can set a spam filtering strength to check for words commonly u... [read more]

Users of Blog and News pages will notice we have upgraded the social networking links on these pages. No longer are you stuck with a dreary row of confusing icons. Your visitors will now see a dynamic social networking element which allows them to "like" the page (on Facebook), Tweet it, Digg it, email it or use one of many other social networ... [read more]

Our latest upgrade to the Homebuild system has mostly concentrated on improving Homebuild's performance. To accomplish this we have made improvements throughout the platform Homebuild runs on as well as to Homebuild itself. We have upgraded the Homebuild servers to the latest hardware, upgraded the operating system, upgraded PHP (the computer-progra... [read more]

We have just moved Homebuild onto a new, much-improved server, in addition to upgrading the Homebuild code to the latest version. This is a large and complex upgrade, so please let us know immediately if you notice and bugs and we will endevour to get them fixed as soon as possible. Thank you, and we hope you enjoy the speed and functionality improvemen... [read more]

Our latest update to Homebuild brings several new page types to your CMS as well as several other exciting improvements. New Gallery We have completely rewritten the Homebuild Gallery. It now allows you to display your images in a number of different formats. There's Photographer Style, featuring a dynamic, animated band of thumbnail... [read more]

You may have noticed more new features and improvements appearing in your Homebuild site over the last few days. Most of the new features are part of our ongoing improvement of the Homebuild Shop. Here's a rundown of the changes we've just released. Shop Sub-Pages Now Allow Formatting You can now format the contents of... [read more]

We continue to make improvements to the Homebuild Shop. With this upgrade, the following enhancements were added: Product Search You can now search for products within a shop. Even better, the shop uses smart searching, so matching products pop up as you type. This not only allows customers to jump to the product they're searching for... [read more]

A new version of Homebuild was made live this morning. Hopefully this didn't cause too much disruption. This new release contains a number of improvements. Improved Editor The editor used to manage most of your content has been vastly upgraded. As well as working faster and more smoothly, be sure to check out the full screen mode (automat... [read more]

The latest upgrade to Homebuild includes a whole load of much-requested features. You may have noticed some of them already but in case you didn't catch them all, here's a breakdown of some of the things you may have missed. Google Integration Homebuild now integrates with two must-have services provided by search giant, Google.We... [read more]