• Search-engine friendly URLs: we've received a lot (and by that we mean a lot) of emails asking for this one. Friendly URLS are clean, short and descriptive addresses instead of the commonly widespread gibberish of numbers and letters.
  
  Wanna know how they can improve your blog? Well, to start with most search engines will not index any addresses containing question marks or any other characters of the kind, so friendly URLs allow for search engine indexability. They also promote usability and improve user experience since they're way easier to remember and to type.
  
  To set friendly URLs for your blog simply access your content manager, go to General Settings and check the "Enable friendly URLs" box.
  
  Then all that's left to do is click on the "Download friendly URLs file" and publish this file to your site's root.
  

• RSS improvements: you can now include a customized title, description and image for your blog to be displayed via RSS. To do so, access the content manager, go to General Settings and fill out the fields under the "RSS Configuration" section.

• Lightbox effect for images: images with a lightbox effect overlay the current page when clicked on while displaying a shadowy effect. By placing the pointer over the image readers can browse the images gallery-like in full view. To set a lightbox effect, access your content manager, go to General Settings and check the "Enable lightbox for images" box. That simple!

• General blog pimping: we gave the content manager a general face lift by refining some of the existing features. But I'd rather not ramble on about it and have you check it out for yourself! *wink wink*

We're more than happy about the nice feedback we keep getting relating the 'Top 100 links for web designers' page we posted a while ago.

Needless to say, thanks to all of you who dropped us a line suggesting some other cool sites. We went through all of them and chose the ones we thought more useful.

We've finally updated the page and added some of your suggestions as well as some other nice links we've encountered along the way. So go ahead, check them out and don't forget to post a comment... de-lurking time's officially over!

• Server migration: Due to the high number of registered users and visitors we were getting, we thought it was about time to migrate to a dedicated, more powerful, ultimate state-of-the-art drop-dead server... and so we did.
  

• New release of our forever-free Blog module: Yes, you read it right. We've been working our bones off to create an extremely intuitive blog module while keeping a nice look and feel to it. If you can't stand it anymore, click here to sign up and start using it right away. Else, check its super cool features here. Amongst others, you'll be able to moderate comments, upload images together with your posts, set an RSS feed, arrange your posts into monthly archives... plus many other nice features.
  

Some of you reported getting the following error while configuring Inserit:

Error: can't load any wrapper for existing math libraries

After having a deep look into it and a couple of strong espressos we've got it all figured it out, so no worries... you can now access Inserit management panel and download the Inserit files without having to go through the whole configuration process again. (Not that it takes that much anyway since the whole process it's just 4 steps but we figured it'd be easier to just offer you the files separately.) So anyway, whenever you're in, click on the Downloads section on the right side menu, choose Download Inserit and publish the files through your FTP server... you'll be ready to roll!

For those of you keen on techie details, here they are: we've made the configuration process no longer dependant on math libraries -thus increasing general speed substantially- so that now PHP users don't need to use any extra extension to control large integers.

Again, thanks a lot for all your feedback and nice comments... they sure are a nice pump of energy!

After some double espressos to keep us up through the night, it looks like we've finally been able to fix a bug some of you encountered when trying to use Inserit in PHP pages.

This one has had a happy ending (not for the bug, anyway), it turned out to be a buffer error that we have flicked off the face of Earth on our new Inserit download version 2.0.1.

This is the error message some of you reported:

Fatal error: session_start() : Cannot use output buffering in output buffering display handlers in .../bin/InseritBasePage.php on line 803

If this is your case, please go through the configuration process again and download the new 2.0.1 version in step 2. We have also included a shortcut in the management panel under the Downloads section through which you will be able to download the new version in a blink without having to go through the whole configuration process again (don't forget to publish it via FTP though).

Those of you currently using ASP.NET Windows servers or our trial web addresses... you don't need to move a finger!

If you're part of the web-standards-only congregation, it seems like it's time to track back your steps and start watching your back... again.

The IE7 team has posted a call to action for all web designers to be on the lookout for new hacks sprouting from their once web-compliant pages. Looks like some of the CSS fixes they have made are causing pages under the strict doctype to collapse.

That is sure to put the 'forward-compatibility argument' at stake once again -- you know, the belief that if you build your sites according to current web standards, there'll be no need to change or update them in a long, long time. But then what's the point of building web-compliant sites if, in order to do so, many layouts will require the use of hacks relying on IE flaws?

The debate is sure open between those 'sticking to the rules' and those choosing reality over theory. So... go ahead, which type are you?

Get ready. Fix your chair. Switch your comp. Unfold your mouse... we're finally open! It's been a long way since back in the old summer days, and there's still a long road ahead of us. But we made it. Our forever-free beta version of the News module is popping its head on our page and waiting for you to download it.

We will highly appreciate any feedback you send us. So if you encounter any bug, error or simply feel there's something worth improving, let us know... we'll read your message as soon as we're done carving our Halloween pumpkins. No, seriously. We're all ears!

Thanks a lot to all of you for your patience and interest... we really hope Inserit will simplify your lives from now on!

While undertaking some serious, thorough and extremely boring research of the latest breakthrough Internet companies currently surfing and leading the wave, it struck us the significant amount of them that ended up offering what was never planned in any strategy meeting.

In fact, there isn't anything to be surprised about. The myriad of possibilities Internet provides makes it possible for the new sprouting companies to adapt and offer its users what they really need in real time. Now, we're not saying that doesn't happen in the everyday, outside-the-web world -- what we're saying is that it certainly doesn't happen that whooping fast.

Such is the case of Flickr, and we're pulling a random name out of a hat here, that started out as a multiuser chat room with real-time photo sharing capabilities and soon turned its head to greener pastures impelled by the specific needs of its users. Did it ever cross their minds the thought of building the -and we're only stating our humble opinion here- best online free photo management app on the market? Don't even bother answering that one. It's a plain no.

So we can't help but wonder, what will Inserit look like in, let's say, a year? To tell you the truth, we're not losing our sleep over it as long as we keep giving our customers what they came looking for. Because we owe them what we are. It's their show from start to finish.