We created the Yola Experts Program to provide resources to web professionals to build their businesses.  With Yola, a web designer can easily build customized sites for clients that are easy to update.

The Yola Experts Program provides:

• Training materials on website building and sales
• Processes to facilitate the creation of quality sites
• An exclusive forum for discussions among web designers
• Marketing collateral to promote the Yola Expert

We are pleased to announce that the Yola Experts Program (YEP) officially moves from pilot phase to public beta today. We have spent the last 3 months with the program in the pilot phase, collecting input from pilot members and their clients. Now that the program is launched in public beta, we are opening it to a wider audience. Please let us know what you think at yep@yola.com.

If you are a web designer, established or recently starting out, we invite you to take a closer look at YEP. Time and time again, the Yola sitebuilder has been referred to by industry experts as an award-winning design tool, which enables quick creation of quality sites.  You’ll find more information on our Join page.

Even with the simplicity and ease-of-use of the Yola sitebuilder, we have found small businesses often do not have the time to create a much needed website. If you are a small business looking for help with a website, or want a redesign of an existing site, please feel free to browse this Directory. There you’ll find the business sites of web designers whose work you can evaluate.  Please remember that these designers are not employees of Yola, and operate completely independently – you will be going directly to them to hire their services.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the pilot phase and for helping us determine the program materials at launch.  We look forward to continuing to expand the program resources and seeing many more high-quality sites designed by Yola Experts.

We’re excited to announce that Yola will be co-sponsoring SOCAP09 this year along with our friends at Kiva.

SOCAP09 is a gathering of the world’s top social innovators held on September 1^st through 3^rd at The Fort Mason Center in San Francisco.  Yola will be exhibiting at the event and we’d love to see as many of our users there as possible. To make that possible, we’re offering a 30% discount for the Yola network using the code “YA30.” Register here to take advantage of this offer special offer.

We hope to see you at SOCAP09!

SynthaSite has won the Industry Standard 100 award in the Community & Social category, beating companies like Delicious and Meebo.

Thank you to everyone for their votes!

We’ve just rolled out our latest set of feature updates. The major highlight of this release is the integration of the Widgetbox Gallery to the toolbox. Now you can browse, search and easily add widgets from WidgetBox’s wide selection of over 60 000 widgets - all from the comfort of your own SynthaSite! This makes it even easier to incorporate things like games, chat, video, social networking and much more straight into your website. Look for it in the “Contents” sidebar directly under the “File” widget.

We have also added a new tutorial to our increasingly comprehensive support section. The “How To Use Your Own Domain Name With SynthaSite” tutorial explains in detail the process of registering and configuring your own domain to point to your website.

As always, for a more detailed update on what’s new and exciting at SynthaSite, check out the latest release notes.

If you love SynthaSite, then this is you chance to make yourself heard and nominate us for the Industry Standard Innovation Awards.

These awards showcase the top 100 Internet innovators across 10 categories. They’re community-driven so we need your help!

Nominate us by Friday, July 18th with the link below:

http://www.thestandard.com/awards/tis100

We only picked up on this news, when Webuser posted their online review. It is a nice comparison of web builders, so if you haven’t signed up with SynthaSite and you are considering the different website builders that are out there, then have a look!

We strive to constantly improve SynthaSite and the value it provides our users. One of the ways we do this is through regular updates that improve the overall user experience, feature set and stability. Yesterday we put version 2.2.5 live.

The new color palettes got such a great reception that we have added more - 15 more styles now offer multiple palettes and there will be more to come. In order to help you find the palette you are looking for we have added pagination for browsing styles.

Full details of the new features and fixes are documented in the release notes.

As usual, there is plenty new support material to help you get up and running or improve your existing site.

There are also some undocumented fundamental enhancements that should make publishing your website even smoother and faster.

As always, thank you for your feedback and continued support - it has been invaluable in getting us to the point we are today. The daily communication from you via our support center and Get Satisfaction is what informs how we prioritize each release.

SynthaSite will be exhibiting at the ISP Conference in Chicago tomorrow through Thursday. Myself & our VP of Marketing, Randy Almond will be manning the booth and we’re looking forward to meeting with any prospective partners that would be interested in working with us! Please feel free to stop by the booth and introduce yourself if you’re one of our existing users, or if you’re interested in working with us! See you at the conference!

Vinny Lingham
CEO, SynthaSite

We’ve just released the latest set of SynthaSite features. The highlight is that the color palette of many of our styles can now be changed. We were really keen to get this feature out as soon as possible so that we could get your feedback so please let us know what you think! In the future we will make it possible for you to set individual properties of the style so that you can customize the look of your site to your hearts content. We’ll be rolling out many more color palettes over the next couple of weeks so please check back soon for updates.

Another highlight is the File Widget which is useful if you want your site visitors to download a file from your website. We’ve also added map markers to the Google Map Widget. We don’t want anyone getting lost now do we!?

For detailed information about the latest changes and bug fixes please refer to our release notes.

The problem that prevented some users from creating sites has been resolved and the service is fully restored.

Our user base has grown substantially over the past few months and we have been working hard to make sure that our infrastructure can accommodate the increased traffic. Last night we unexpectedly reached capacity on one of our servers which is why new users were temporarily unable to create new sites. It is important to note that this issue did not affect existing sites in any way.

Now that we have resolved this limitation we will continue to improve our service with the aim of providing the highest possible uptime and availability. Once again, we apologize for any inconvenience.