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Designspotters: It's all about Design (Fri, 08 Aug 2008)
Our new partner, the online magazine DESIGNSPOTTER, offers everything a design enthusiast's heart could desire. In a daily blog, reports or in the column it's all about accessories, books, design contests, current exhibitions, fashion, furniture, architecture and much more... The main concern of DESIGNSPOTTER is to offer young designers a platform for publication. Here they can get in contact with other designers and all those people who love and live design. By submitting their works, ideas and prototypes, designers can set up their own profile on designspotter.com. So, if you are into design you should not miss to visit DESIGNSPOTTER - there are really a lot of things to see! Get a foretaste and have also a look at those great websites of DESIGNSPOTTER readers who created their website with Jimdo: Sui Generis Clothing   SUI GENERIS CLOTHING Every single piece of clothing from the SUI GENERIS CLOTHING collection is handcrafted with love by the young Canadian designer Jordan de Ruiter. Most of the dresses and other beauties are individual items or limited editions. Her page is a must for everyone who loves cloths! Great colors and patterns glamorize every item and make it to something really special. Free your Game!   FREE YOUR GAME It's supposed that there are people who consider golfing to be kind of square. They sometimes have a really even kind of prejudices against that kind of sport! We promise all those people: Take a look at the Jimdo Page of FREE YOUR GAME and it's over... :) Golf lessons paired with creativity workshops, street art and fashion await you! Hausbootbau Oldenburg HAUSBOOTBAU OLDENBURG - a houseboat is born! In Oldenburg, in the North of Germany, a boat is being built. A houseboat. It's probably going to be the most stylish houesboat the world has ever seen. The swimming house that arose from the creative minds of the designers Flo Florian and Sascha Akkerman, is supposed to be a full-fledged, top-quality home that represents a mixture of design and maritime romantic. We're already excited to see the houseboat finished! Visit the Jimdo Page to see status reports and more!   Looks promising, doesn't it? :) Great Pages and creative ideas - what do you think? Best regards, Your Jimdo Team    
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New anti-spam protection for your contact forms (Wed, 06 Aug 2008)
We all know this: Almost every day our email accounts are overflowed with spam mails... it's just annoying! And contact forms can be affected, too - unless you put some obstacles in the spammer's way: Captchas! Captchas are little tasks that can usually be solved easily by humans, but not by computers. So if the correct solution is entered, it is presumed that the user was human.   Since we received many questions concerning anti-spam protection recently, we decided to create a little Captcha for your contact forms that should preserve you from spam mails. However, since Captchas rely on visual perception, they offer only limited web accessibility. Users who are unable to view Captchas won't be able to perform the task. That is why you can decide when integrating a new contact form if you want to deactivate the anti-spam protection and offer full accessibility for your website (important for official websites of public authorities) or if you activate the anti-spam protection and get rid off spam mails.   Let us know what you think about it - does it work for you? Those who want to learn more about Captchas can look it up on Wikipedia.org.   That's what the picture looks like below the contact form. If you want to write someone a note via contact form, just type in the displayed code (no need for case sensitivity) and submit. Should the code be unreadable, just refresh it and a new code is generated.   We're looking forward to your feedback - we'd be glad if you let us know if the Captcha helps you to get rid off spam mails... :)   Best regards, Your Jimdo Team
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Jimdo on tour :) (Mon, 04 Aug 2008)
  Last weekend, our Jimdo packed the bags and to go on a little works outing! Incl. a mudflat hiking tour, barbecue and a night in a "hay hotel" (there were no rooms, we all slept in an old stable on the warm and cosy hay). Employees of other companies might not feel like spending a whole weekend with the company, but we all were really excited and looking forward to the weekend!   On Friday we started our trip in a good temper and spent the first night at Fridel's place (the old farm, where once the idea of Jimdo was brought into being). But before we went to sleep, we had a nice barbecue and celebrated... and so we were a bit tired when we had to get up at 5.30 a.m. :) Finally we made it and started our mudflat hiking tour in time and there was not even a not even a suggestion of fatigue when we arrived at the little island Neuwerk (it actually has only 36 habitants) off the coast in the North Sea. In the evening, we made some hot dogs while we were sitting on the levee, payed a visit to the crowded (and only) bar on the island, had a night-time walk and finally enjoyed our well-deserved sleep in the hay...   The next morning, we made our way back home to the mainland, had a second breakfast at Fridel's place and then all got back to Hamburg... We're already looking forward to going on the next Jimdo Tour! It was such a great weekend!   Enough the talking - we don't want to withhold the pictures any longer... Enjoy! :)    
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Juice up your Jimdo Page with Pictogame! (Wed, 16 Jul 2008)
  Suppose you juice up your Jimdo Page with a funny self-made online game? It's not only great fun for you, but also the visitors of your website will love it! With Pictogame, you can create your own mini-game in only 3 clicks and then integrate it into your Jimdo Page. It's easy, it's fun - and it's for free! Visit Pictogame immediately and choose from more than 30 different Pictogames!   Best is: Upload your own photo and use it for your personalized Pictogame - even more fun for you and your friends! Try it out - and play the Jimdo Pictogame :)   Faire un jeu | Bisous Jimdo | Jeux gratuits | Pictogame   Have fun! Your Jimdo Team P.S. Want more? Take a look at our partner site - we started to make a list of great widgets we recommend for your website! If you have any suggestions, which widgets should be recommended, too - let us know! Just write an e-mail to support@jimdo.com    
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Edit your navigation faster and easier! (Mon, 14 Jul 2008)
Add new pages, hide them (read more about this in our Wiki), and move them up and down or to the second or third navigation level... - it couldn't be more simple with the improved version of the Jimdo navigation!     When you look at the new navigation, you might not see any difference, but as soon as you start editing you will notice that   the navigation is much faster there are no inconvenient waiting times any longer: the navigation does not reload each time when you hide ore move a page. So, first you can adjust your navigation as you wish to, rename the pages, add new pages... and when you're finished, save it once - that's it!   For the pros among you: The navigation has improved a lot, also from technical aspects. In the end the improvements will result in more stability and possibilities for the future.   But now - have (even more) fun editing your Jimdo-Pages! ;-)       All the best, Your Jimdo Team   P.S. We're looking forward to your feedback - just leave us a comment :-)      
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Blog Update and: Closed Beta ends, Open Beta begins! (Tue, 08 Jul 2008)
  A big Blog Beta Update is done! There are some changes concerning the teaser and the RSS feed, furthermore you can create categories > but we'll come closer to the details in a second..   First, we have to say THANK YOU VERY MUCH to all the busy Beta testers! Your incredible feedback, your suggestions and all your support helped us a lot - and is still helping us a lot to improve! Thanks! :)  Closed ends - open begins......and we would like to welcome all of you! Everyone who would like to test the blog, is invited to join the Beta! From now on, you'll not be asked to enter an invitation code - just go ahead and set up your Blog! Indeed, we'll stay Beta - that means, errors still may occur and other updates will be made, but everyone who fancies to have a blog should try it! We happily welcome every new Jimdo blogger!   And here are the technical details:    1. Teaser image and teaser concept changed Blog Beta Element We got especially loads of comments and feedback concerning the teaser - thanks again! Many of you were of the opinion that the whole "teaser-thing" was way to complicated - and we think you're right! For this reason, we rethought the concept and changed it completely. And that's what came out:   Easily: there's no teaser anymore! :) The only fixed element of each blog article is the heading. After the heading, you can integrate any of the elements. The idea behind the teaser (a neat overview of all blog articles > you'll find a great example here: www.hsv-fs.de, the Jimdo-Page of a German soccer club) stays the same - you can define it in the blog settings through "length of teaser": Length of teaser > how many elements should be displayed after the heading?   The figure you enter here, defines how many elements of the blog article's content are displayed as a teaser. Those who want to keep the originally considered appearance of the teaser (small image and introduction text), just choose "Text with photo" for the first element and the 1 for teaser length. But of course, any other element can be integrated after the heading... Just try it out - and we'll work on some good tutorials that will show you all features of the blog element step by step.   All existing teaser texts and images will be transformed into a "Text with photo"-element autmatically, so don't worry: no content will be lost!   Here's an overview of the changes for already existing blog articles: The option "Show teaser image" is no longer valid. All teaser images are visible now (because they have been transformed to a "Text with photo" element). You can change the size of your teaser image! (The quadratic shape of the image might be lost by changing the size) In the overview of the "Blog beta" element: from now on, the first element after the heading is displayed automatically in the teaser view. 2. CategoriesFinally, here they are: Categories! Now you can sort your blog articles according to different topics. Enter your categories here. If you would like to enter several categories for one article, it's important to separate the single categories by a space. Already got some categories? They are displayed here - just choose one or more or add new categories. And so the articles are sorted and categorized. The readers of your blog see the articles below the heading of the blog article: 3. RSS feed   We also overworked the RSS-feed: From now on, the complete blog article is shown in the RSS-feed. You'll always find your feed under /rss/blog in your Jimdo Page. It's also possible to generate a feed according to categories - just add the name of the category to the feed address: jimdo.com/rss/blog Category Blog beta: www.jimdo.com/rss/blog/blog-beta   Those who are not really sure what exactly an RSS feed is can visit Wikipedia :)     We would be pleased if you let us know what you think of the update :)   Have fun blogging!   All the best, Your Jimdo Team  
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New layouts online (Tue, 17 Jun 2008)
  Time for a change? At least, it's summertime and maybe your website needs a refreshing outfit...? ;) What about trying one of the new layouts? Just try them on - you'll find them under "Layouts"   Here you can take a look at the new layouts (click on the picture to enlarge it):     Do you like them? Let us know... :)   Best, Your Jimdo Team    
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Jimdo goes OpenID (Tue, 10 Jun 2008)
Some of you may wonder what OpenID actually is. So, here's a short introduction to OpenID: OpenID can get you out of the "account jungle" most of us suffer from on the Internet. It is a decentralized single signon system, which allows Internet users to log on to many different websites using only one username and one password.  Your OpenID address looks like a www-address and can be linked especially well in different forums or other blogs. What is best: You can also register the URL of your Jimdo Page with your OpenID provider as your personal OpenID. If your homepage is at the same time your OpenID, you'll profit from some advantages:   1.) just remember the name of your homepage as your username for other sites 2.) Your homepage is linked automatically on other websites (e.g. if you login to forums via OpenID)   And that's how it works:   Overview   1. Get an OpenID from an OpenID provider There are several providers you can choose from. Here you'll find a list of different providers, just have a look at them. It's free and easy: wiki.openid.net/OpenIDServers. Once you finished creating your OpenID, you can add the URL of your Jimdo Page in your OpenID account so that you'll be able to use it as your OpenID later.     2. Login to your Jimdo Page Click on Jimdo Account > Open ID configuration. Here you enter your external OpenID so that you can use it for Jimdo. If you additionally click on the little checkmark ("Use your Jimdo Page as OpenID") and enter the URL of your Jimdo Page you'll be able to use your Jimdo Page as your OpenID. Don't forget to save it! ;)           3. Login with OpenID Next time you login, you can log into your Jimdo Page with the OpenID you chose. When you click on "Login", a window pops up and your OpenID provider asks you to enter your password or (if you're already logged in during this session) to verify your identity.     Of course, you can also login at many other web services that support OpenID with your Jimdo Page (if you have ticked "Use your Jimdo Page as OpenID"). If you don't want to use OpenID, of course it's up to you whether you want it or not.   For more information on OpenID please check Wikipedia If you have further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at support@jimdo.com. :)   All the best, Your Jimdo Team  
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The Jimdo T-Shirts arrived! (Fri, 30 May 2008)
  Finally... They are here! Our long-awaited and red hot Jimdo T-Shirts have finally made their way to our office. Needless to say that we had to jump at them to try them on and to have a little photo-session. Here are the results:   Also good news to the Jimdo Supporters: at least, we'll be able to send out the promised Supporter Package!! :)   All the best, Your Jimdo Team  
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Rediscover the world of Jimdo (Thu, 29 May 2008)
  Do you like it colorful? Great - we've got something for you! From now on, it's time to explore our Pages Directory! Under "Explore" you can search for different tags - and the pages that fit your search key will pop up and catch your eye immediately!So you can rediscover the world of Jimdo in a completely new way and see what happens at Jimdo! Just enter your search key under "Explore", e.g. "Jimdo" - and see all the pages that have been tagged with "Jimdo" pop up at once. Discover at first sight how many pages exist for certain topics. If you like one of the pages, just click on it and learn more: who created the Jimdo-Page, what other tags have been given to it? Explore endlessly through different pages and learn a lot - maybe you'll even discover some new Jimdo friends...? How can you join? If you have already given your Jimdo Page under Jimdo Account > Tags some sensitive and fitting tags, you're automatically in because the new Jimdo Explorer visualizes everything which is a tag ;) So, go ahead and take a look at your friends' tags - it's a lot of fun to look through the Jimdo-Pages... best thing is, you'll start your own exploration tour...    
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Try the new Jimdo comment module (Tue, 20 May 2008)
  Receiving feedback from your environment is a great thing. You get recognition for what you're doing or suggestions and tips for improvement. At Jimdo, we have a new comment module for that!   Communication between you and the visitors of your website are as good and easy as never before! How it works? Quite simply: Set up kind of a mini forum, where you and your visitors can exchange thoughts and opinions Let your friends make comments on the latest holiday pictures Obtain opinions on your texts, videos, pictures etc. The best thing is: If you leave a comment on another Jimdo Page while you're logged in at your own, your avatar picture and your name will automatically appear - as you can see on the picture on the right side.   On jimdo.com we already used the comment module to obtain your opinions of the Blog Beta - and we received so many great comments that gave us great pleasure and that helped us a lot. On your Jimdo Page you can have the same effect now...   Comment module instead of guestbook   Bit by bit, the comment module will replace the guestbook. We're already adapting all your guest books. But don't worry - of course, none of the old entries will get lost! The new module offers only advantages: Administrate your comments! You decide if comments are published at once or if you have to approve them first. Or close a discussion when you think that there have been enough words. Integrate as many comment modules as you want! Previously, you couldn't integrate a new guest book - no problem with the comment module...     So, go ahead - obtain and write comments for all your worth! Your friends will be pleased...     Have fun!   All the best, Your Jimdo Team   P.S. As you know - we love your opinion, too! Maybe in kind of a comment on this blog post... ;-)  
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Blog Beta successfully started (Wed, 07 May 2008)
  Wow, we're absolutely overwhelmed! So many of you signed up for the Blog Beta and are now busy building up their blogs. Your feedback is just awsome, thank you so much! We almost can't keep up with answering your mails and comments.. :)We continue to work on the blog features and already finished the technology for the categories. Now, we're working on the surface so that you'll be able to use it...   Furthermore, we added the following features to our list: Post new blog articles to Technorati Add widgets of blog articles to del.icio.us, mr. wong, webnews etc. Teaser image: changing the size We'll keep you in the loop - thank you so much for your support!   Spring and Fridel, Jimdo Team
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Jimdo Launches its closed beta blog feature (Tue, 29 Apr 2008)
Our new blog tool is waiting in the wings. Starting now, we are launching a so-called closed beta phase, which allows a participating users to test the new functions. Within the next 4-6 weeks, we will install additional functions and (hopefully) encounter few mistakes. If everything goes well, as we anticipate, we will makes the features available to all members. Jimdo Launches its closed beta blog feature from Jimdo Team on Vimeo.Jimdo's new blog tool enables you to simply and speedily write you own Blog. (If you're not sure what a blog is, check out the Wikipedia article). What is so special about Jimdo's blog feature is that you can be in charge of your own design: you can integrate all the elements that you use for your Jimdo-Page-wether it's text, photos, videos or widgets...   If you want to be one of the lucky testers and want to test the new blog functions in the beta phase, than act fast. We are handing out 200 test accounts on the quickiest Jimdo Users. Later, however, we will also make more test accounts available-so apply now for a test account!   Already have a blog and want to finally transfer it over to Jimdo so that you can finally have everything all in one place? That isn't a problem- you can import your current blog without losing any of the blogs in your archive. Read on to find out how it works.   We are first and foremost excited to hear what you all have to say about the new blog tool. Simply leave a comment on our new blog :-) We look forward to hearing your opinion. You can also ask any questions by sending an email to support@jimdo.com or using our forums.     All the Best, Your Jimdo Team  
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Find new Jimdo friends and invite all your friends to Jimdo! (Thu, 17 Apr 2008)
  Would you like to find new friends at Jimdo? Or would you like to find out which friends are already Jimdo users? From today on it's very easy to find it out. Afterwards, you can easily invite those of your friends who are missing to Jimdo and so expand your network.That's how it works Invite friends   1. Log in to your Jimdo Page and click on "Friends" in the menu - now you'll see the two buttons "Invite friends" and "Search friends".   2. Click on "Invite friends" and type in your log-in data of your E-Mail provider. Please note: Of course, your password and all the other data will NOT be stored! All data are used for the non-recurring readout of your address book only.   3. After the read out you can see a list of which friends are already Jimdo users and you can add him as a friend at once! Then you can invite those who are still missing at Jimdo and send them a personal invitation via a Jimdo form. Now, you are all brought together :)     Please note! You can import your address book of the following providers: Search friends   You can also search for a single friend - just type in his or her E-Mail address or name. Then you can see whether he or she is on or not and add or invite him/her at once!       Have fun with your friends - find them and get connected :) If you have any questions, please contact our Support Team and write them an E-Mail to support@jimdo.com.   All the best, Your Jimdo Team      
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Big Update: you're now able to add your friends, send messages and follow the newsfeed of your friends (Thu, 27 Mar 2008)
Dear Jimdo-Fans, we have just released social features such as adding friends, sending messages and keeping track of friends’ newsfeeds within Jimdo. These features will hopefully help you a lot to make your Jimdo-Page a lot more interactive. You can see in the video down below how the new features work.Since we launched Jimdo last year we had a clear vision of how the Jimdo-Page should develop. We wanted to enable you to create your own place on the net, a place where you can determine what you want to publish, what your page looks like, and who can access what information. But it should also be a place where you could interact with your friends and family. Up to know, you already had the possibility to create your own website. This release now is the first one that is going to make it way easier to communicate with your audience - you're able to connect as friends, send messages and even follow the updates of your friends pages via the newsfeed. We hope that you'll enjoy the new features - what do you think of them? Pages to the People, your Jimdo-Team Jimdo launching Social Features from Jimdo Team on Vimeo. The new FeaturesQuick Start. Visit any existing Jimdo-Page i.e. jimdo-team.jimdo.com and click on "add as friend". Now go back to your Page, log in and check out the button "Friends" on the right side. If the person has accepted your friendship he or she will appear here. Make sure to try all new features under "Friends"! Integrate the new Jimdo-Element into your Page. Just log into your Page, add the new Jimdo-Element and i.e. make your newsfeed public. Search for new friends in the Pages-Directory. The new Jimdo element With the new Jimdo-element you can easily show who you're friends with,  add the "add as a friend" link (especially useful for JimdoPro users because they don't have the sidebar) or make your newsfeed public. Check out jimdo-team.jimdo.com page where we've come up with some examples Here're all our friends. Here we're displaying our newsfeed. In addition, we've also integrated the "add as friend" button on our front page. Try it out and be friends with us :)   Friends and Messages. If you log into your Page, you'll see the two additional buttons "Friends" and "Messages". If you click on Friends, you can see who you're friends with check the friends of the friends, check the newsfeed of your friends and - be sure to try everything! The Newsfeed. Sounds complicated but it's not. Everytime you change your Page, i.e. upload new pictures your newsfeed will be updated. All friends and visitors of your Page will automatically know what you changed - which makes it way easier for them. You can easily make your newsfeed public with the above described Jimdo-Element, your friends can also subscribe to it as an RSS-Feed or your Friends can check it via their "Friends" button when they're logged into their Jimdo-Page. Don't want anything of that? No problem: Jimdo is the easiest way to create your own free website - and if you don't want to use the social features, just deactivate them at "Jimdo-Account" and "Privacy". How do you like the new features? We'd really appreciate your feedback in our forum or directly to support@jimdo.com. We're developing Jimdo to give you a first class product - and it's always good to know if we're on the right track.  But now, go ahead and add us as a friend: http://jimdo-team.jimdo.com! :) Add Jimdo-Team as friend   Pages to the People, your Jimdo-Team
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How often was a PDF downloaded from your Page? (Wed, 19 Mar 2008)
Did you ever want to know how often a certain PDF was downloaded on your Page? If you use Google Analytics for more detailed statistics on your Page it'll from today on also show you how often your downloads have been downloaded. See here for more information of how to integrate Google Analytics to your Page. Best, your Jimdo-Team
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Jimdo launches Spanish version (Tue, 11 Mar 2008)
Hard to believe, but it's true: the 7th language version of Jimdo is online! Recently, we launched an Italian and a Russian version, and now we continue with Spanish! As always, we're really excited what different pages will be created and what feedback the Spanish version will get. Here, you can get a picture of the Spanish version - have fun! We're looking forward to your comments and suggestions for improvement - just write an email at support@jimdo.com!   Pages to the People all over the world!
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New Flash Gallery online (Thu, 28 Feb 2008)
The brand-new Flash Picture Gallery is online and has packed some improvements that the visitors of your Jimdo Page (and you, of course) can enjoy! :)First of all: Finally, it's there - the long expected full screen mode! In order to make the full screen mode possible, pictures will be saved from now on in a higher solution (for pros: 1024x768), which means: in a better quality. Furthermore, impatient viewers can click through the pictures with the arrow keys on their keyboard.   When editing the Flash Gallery you will not only note that the new technique abbreviates some waiting lines, but also that you'll find a little help section for the new picture gallery.   We would like to thank Jens Krause whose Slide Show is used for the Flash Gallery.   Now, we wish you a lot of fun with the new gallery!   Your Jimdo Team ...and here's a little preview of some of our photos: The photo gallery requires at least Flash 9.0.28! Please install the newest FlashPlayer; Download von Adobe.com.
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New Google Maps Module online (Thu, 28 Feb 2008)
Which places in the world have I seen? Where did I travel? Where do my best friends live? How can my guests get to my party? Or how do my visitors reach my company?   All these questions can be solved with the help of our new Google Maps Module! Just integrate the module as a new element, place your marks, define the type of your map, the control of the map and its size.Furthermore, you're on the safe side using the Google Maps Module, because everyone knows that using card material can be quite delicate and being admonished is not uncommon. However, using the Module, you're on the safe side.
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Happy Birthday Jimdo (Fri, 22 Feb 2008)
Jimdo's Birthday present: A forum! On February 19, Jimdo celebrated its first Birthday! As a present to you, our users, we finally launched a Jimdo forum "From Jimdo users for Jimdo users". At first, only the German version of the forum went online, but the English forum was launched last week as well. Now, users can exchange their experience in several categories, submit tutorials or arrange Jimdo user meetings. Have fun!
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