QuickerSite

Nick just sent me 30 brand new templates to use with AutoQS. They are already available on www.quickersite.com/signup (the "vertical menus"). Thanks so much Nick for this wonderful effort. You did it ... AGAIN!!!

Earlier today, QuickerSite v261 was released. You can download v261 on the download section.

This release is a must-have for Artisteer-users (only). This version adds support for the vertical menus by Artisteer, as well as some other new features of Artisteer v24, like the flash headers.

This version adds a template-variable for the Artisteer Vertical Menu: [QS_ARTISTEER_FULLVMENU_V24].

Upgrading from QuickerSite v26 is easy. You can download the full zip and remove all files and folders, except for the "asp" folder. Open this folder, and remove the "config" folder. Next, upload the asp folder to your host.

To use the built-in template unzipper in QuickerSite, you need to install a 3rd party zip component. It's free! You have to download and install this component. Please note that in case your site is hosted on a shared hosting account, you might not be able to use the unzip feature. In this case, I suggest you install the component on your localhost, and you transform your template on your localhost, before you upload it to your host. Or you can also signup for a hosted site on www.quickersite.com/signup. This codebase converts the Artisteer v24 Vertical menu for use in QuickerSite v261.

Important note for AutoQSite customers : do not install v261 over your AutoQSite. The QuickerSite codebase for AutoQSite is different from the single site installation codebase. Please contact us for more info on how to upgrade.

Best regards,
Pieter Cooreman
Developer QuickerSite

Classic ASP still more popular than ASP.NET?
I have a reason to believe that classic ASP applications are still more popular than their big brothers in .NET. According to Google, there are 9.000.0000.000 classic ASP pages, and “only” 8.000.000.000 .NET pages. I was told to use the “allinurl” function in Google. When searching for allinurl:”.php” however, you’ll see that PHP is more popular than Classic ASP and .NET together. For what it’s worth.

AutoQSite is doing great
We recently developed AutoQSite, the one-click installation robot for QuickerSite. We have successfully setup www.iseral.be and www.freehostedcms.com,  and we have setup some others for customers. This works great. Creating a full-blown QuickerSite with some default pages and content takes…. 5 seconds. One UK based customer created over 400 QuickerSites in only one month. Via the various AutoQSites we have installed, we have already seen over 1000 new QuickerSites in 2010. That is amazing. Do not hesitate to get in touch in case you want to demo AutoQSite on your own server.

300+ templates for your website
We have recently launched http://freetemplates.quickersite.com.  This site offers 300+ templates available for download. All templates can be used with QuickerSite. The only thing you need to do is download the ZIPs and upload them in your backsite. If you need help with this, please get in touch, or use the QuickerSite Customer Support Forums. Of course we heavily relied on Artisteer Web Template Generator when setting up this archive. Talking about Artisteer, their v24 release (currently in beta) will support vertical menus. This is something we have been waiting for for almost a year. There is an issue to be solved in this beta release, but as soon as it is fixed, we will add support for vertical menus in QuickerSite. It will be a patch for v26, and therefore this release will be QS v261. Upgrading will be very easy, since only the /asp folder will be affected.

Be careful with licenses
Although we ALWAYS trust our customers, and we try to listen very carefully to their needs, we notice some customers use a single site license for multiple websites. That is not allowed. In most cases, we spot these unlicensed sites, even before they are officially launched. But in ANY case, we spot them after they have been picked up by Google. Therefore we suggest you do not create unlicensed QuickerSites. Sooner or later, we will have to contact you about it. It’s always annoying, for all of us.

The wishlist > Call for plugins
Some of you might have noticed we have silently closed the wishlist on www.quickersite.com. We believe that the current v26 release is a very complete CMS. Adding more modules would surcharge the QS codebase. However, we know some of our customers are always looking into new features. We therefore launch this call for plug-ins. Do you have a classic ASP application that you want to share or sell, so it can be converted to QS plug-in? Do not hesitate to contact us. It would sure need some rework, but after it is converted to a QS plugin, it would then be available to many of our customers. In particular, we are looking for an e-commerce plug-in and a calendar-plug-in. You have one available? You want to sell it/give it away? Do you want to contribute? Get in touch, so we can work something out!

We just added 128 new templates to our hosted QuickerSites (Special Series I-VII)! Thanks to a very useful .net script, we were able to automate the creation of thumbs for templates. That is how adding these 128 templates only took 1,5 hour. Amazing, isn't it?!

All templates are available on www.freehostedcms.com, www.quickersite.com and www.iseral.be.

AutoQSite rocks!