Thursday, November 14, 2013

Redesign UPdate: More Launches, Weird Character Fixes, and RSVP/Guestlist Stuff

We have some important redesign related updates to share, so please read on...

Launches

This past week, both Do317 and doNYC soft launched their new sites and will hard launch next week! Big thanks to their teams for their awesome effort in identifying priority fixes and keeping up the transition momentum.

Weird Characters

We know you've been frustrated by the weird characters popping up on your site due to accents, tildes, apostrophes, and other symbols. We have good news: we have not only a long-term but now also a short-term fix! You no longer need to manually edit corrections. We have corrected much of the appearance of these weird characters, and will continually work to make sure they're automatically corrected. BUT we could use your help in doing so.

When you find weird characters on your site, please send support@dostuffmedia.com a link to that page without manually editing it. That way we can build a fix for all cases of that weirdness.

RSVP/Giveaway Stuff

On your new sites, it no longer makes sense to have the RSVP/Giveaway "Special Offer" text read "Click 'Like' to Win" or anything similar because users no longer have the 'Like' button - only 'Add' and 'Win' or 'RSVP.' It's still important that you have a call to action included in the "Special Offer" field, so you'll want to change these out with new copy that makes sense. Just something to be aware of as you prep for your transitions or adapt to your new site.

Also, we recommend that everyone include a link to your Guestlist page in the "Featured Stuff" section opened with search similar to how you have had it in you "Must Do/Big Stuff" dropdown.

Any thoughts of questions on this stuff or other stuff, please let us know.



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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Redesign UPdate: More Launches, Weird Character Fixes, and RSVP/Guestlist Stuff

We have some important redesign related updates to share, so please read on...

Launches

This past week, both Do317 and doNYC soft launched their new sites and will hard launch next week! Big thanks to their teams for their awesome effort in identifying priority fixes and keeping up the transition momentum.

Weird Characters

We know you've been frustrated by the weird characters popping up on your site due to accents, tildes, apostrophes, and other symbols. We have good news: we have not only a long-term but now also a short-term fix! You no longer need to manually edit corrections. We have corrected much of the appearance of these weird characters, and will continually work to make sure they're automatically corrected. BUT we could use your help in doing so.

When you find weird characters on your site, please send support@dostuffmedia.com a link to that page without manually editing it. That way we can build a fix for all cases of that weirdness.

RSVP/Giveaway Stuff

On your new sites, it no longer makes sense to have the RSVP/Giveaway "Special Offer" text read "Click 'Like' to Win" or anything similar because users no longer have the 'Like' button - only 'Add' and 'Win' or 'RSVP.' It's still important that you have a call to action included in the "Special Offer" field, so you'll want to change these out with new copy that makes sense. Just something to be aware of as you prep for your transitions or adapt to your new site.

Also, we recommend that everyone include a link to your Guestlist page in the "Featured Stuff" section opened with search similar to how you have had it in you "Must Do/Big Stuff" dropdown.

Any thoughts of questions on this stuff or other stuff, please let us know.



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