If you looked at our Blog, lately, you might conclude one of two things: 1) Gutensite must not have much to report, 2) Gutensite must be too crazy busy to blog about all the great things that are happening. If you chose door number two, you win. Go have a free website, on us. Unfortunately, I have to admit, blogging is not a high priority compared to all the other important things that demand my time (as much as I would love to spend my day sitting in a coffee shop blogging about how cool we are).

But the truth is, we've been working on lots of great new features that we've been releasing to our community. We've also hired three new people in the last couple months to help meet your needs in a timely fashion and help us meet our own ambitious development goals.

Here is a list of the top of my head of some of the things we've been doing (on top of all the custom work we do for specific client projects, which keeps us extremely busy):

• Released Total Overhaul of MLS Pages and Features for Realtors.
• Added Directions to the "Map & Directions" Page.
• Major Server Upgrade.
• Comprehensive Data Caching to dramatically speed up page loads.
• New Admin Controls for Tons of Display Preferences.
• Additional Calendar display feature now hides past events in list view.
• New Social Media Sharing and Printing options for Articles, News, FAQ, Portfolio, Property Pages (in addition to Blog)
• New Promo Module Options for Link Lists, Multi-Tab Popups, etc.
• New Discussion Forums Functionality.
• Third Party API for the Store, Accounts, and others.
• Exciting new "Site View" (in progress) to redefine the way you build your site and organize your menu in one fancy visual interface.

I'm sure there are a lot more things but I've gotta get back to work!

We've been busy overhauling the look and feel of many of the advanced functionality pages that you may be using on your site. You may have noticed some marked improvement, if you happen to be using the default design (most people are). We recently mentioned the design and functionality upgrades to the calendar, but we've also improved the look of other pages:

• Blog
• Contact Page
• Profiles
• Portfolio
• Testimonials
• Resources Files
• Multimedia
• Communities

If you considered using one of these pages in the past, but weren't happy with how it looked, try it again. If you add the information and a nice photo to your records, these pages on your site will look fabulous.

We recently completed a whole slew of functionality upgrades, including some great new features for our calendar. Some of the upgrades include:

• Advanced Repetition Options: now you can get crazy with custom repeating events, until your brain explodes with the possibilities.
• Popup Details: now clicking on an event in the calendar brings up a simple popup box that lists the important details for an event (plus an option to view the full event details).
• List View: now you can view your events in a long list (instead of a month based calendar). This is helpful for events that occur over an entire year, e.g. concert dates.
• Improved Viewing Options: we've improved the interface for selecting the view mode, date range, and categories.
• Improved Looks: we've improved the look of the entire calendar.
• Subscribe Options: now people can subscribe to your calendar so that their local calendar program can be automatically updated and synced with your website calendar.
• Import/Export: now you can import and/or export to/from any major calendar program, e.g. Microsoft Outlook, Apple iCal, Google Calendar, etc. This should save a lot of time setting up your calendar on Gutensite, and help you keep them synced much better.

Just to name a few. If you have other ideas, let us know and we can consider incorporating them in our next revision.