Although nowhere near complete, you can now update some of the smaller things on your sites on simpl.us.

Happy December to everyone,

Simplus now has a blog of its very own! You can now visit  http://simplus.simpl.us/ and keep up on all the Simplus-related news.

Those who can't wait to claim their site on Simplus can now claim their name before we launch.

If you can submit a good template to Simplus, your first year will be advertisement-free and you will get to be invited first!

Developing your website is not all about coding, there's a little bit of design skills that should be there too. So here's a start. Someone asked me how I made my name tag graphic so here's a little tut. I use Inkscape. Click the image to watch the video.

We now have the framework ready for you to work on your first app!

There was a hole that was exploited last week that made some databases available to those who knew how to exploit the hole.

Developing Simplus was overly optimistic for me. Simply put, I tried to go after something too big, so I am deciding to not make the site; who wants to buy the domain?

Alright guys, I know you want to help and that is purely awesome. If you want to Join in, give me your Google+ and google wave account info and I will add you into the developer groups and we can get you up to speed with us!

Congrats, OmegaJinx, you were the first one to find the hidden picture on the Templus Wiki! We will talk to you as soon as we have the site ready to go.

For the rest of you, there will be many more chances to get an early invite!

I just bought a domain yesterday! I have posted a nice clue somewhere and it is your job to find it! Send me a private message if you find it to get on the list for early access!

We are moving to a better server and you may see some simulated downtime. Sorry!

I am working on a new site (as you most likely already know). If you want early access, you must fit the following criteria:

Hello to our wonderful community,
This is JesusFreak here and I just wanted to let you know of a new enhancement I rolled out this morning. As I have been monitoring comments I have seen some users who get confused on how to reply to a user. Let's make a little example here.

Say John Doe posts a comment on Bob Doe's profile. Now Bob goes to his profile to see this comment. So out of habit, Bob sees the comment box on his profile and begins typing his reply; however, he doesn't realize he is posting a comment on his own profile. As you can see a problem arises. Bob now posts to his own profile and John never gets the reply.

This is where the new feature fits in. If you visit your profiles you will now see a reply button next to each comment. All you have to do is simply click that link and it will take you to the profile of the user who posted the comment. Then you can type your comment. We hope this new feature helps crack down on any confusion! More enhancements and features are on the way so be on the lookout!

-JesusFreak

Well, it seems an update of mine to update the update that updated the update got rolled back. I can now hopefully say that the registration bug is most likely fixed! (Hopefully).

It seems that when the login script was updated to allow you to sign in with either your username or password (Yes, you can really do that, try typing your username into the email field), something got changed in registration where your username was validated against a code that checks to see if the username looks like an email and returned a false positive for the way many usernames were formatted.

Alright guys, I don't post on the blog too often, so you can already imply that this will be important.

Hello Templus community,
This is JesusFreak and I wanted to send an apology out to our dear users. The Templus team has been dealing with some problems we have noticed as well as improving the way this site is run. As a result, templates have not been reviewed in weeks. As the lead template reviewer I try my best to satisfy our fantastic users. Unfortunately I have let you down. Please except my sincere apologies. We are doing our best to get everything squared away and we will be looking at those templates in no time.

Again, thank you for your wonderful contributions to the community!

Yesterday Monday April 25, Webs.com announced the launch of a new app to hit the app store. This app is called LogoGizmo. Webs.com describes this app as an essential tool for making logos. Once you install this app you can create your own logo using their builder. Then, once you approve of your newly created logo you can download and purchase it for only $4.99! Go check this app out in the App Store today!

Templus receives many template submissions every week. However, many of these templates are denied because they do not fit our guidelines. As the person in charge of the template reviewing process I spent some time last year typing up a very extensive list of guidelines that need to be followed in order to have your template approved. I spend lots of time on each template making sure it fits these guidelines before I approve/deny them. Below I have provided some tips to ensure your template is approved the first time.

Many Templates Are Revoked

Since the launch of Templus we have had 199 template submissions.However, only 92 of these submissions have been approved.That is about 46% of the templates submitted. This is a pretty scary number. When I go through the queue each week it can be depressing to see so many templates that just seem to be a joke. So be sure to follow the guidelines so we can boost up this number.

Submission Guidelines

As stated earlier, I spent some time developing guidelines for authors that want to submit their templates. To view the guidelines please go here.

Additional Comments

In addition to all of the guidelines stated in the link given above, I want to emphasize the topic of people submitting template from our template generator. The template generator allows you to develop a general layout and color scheme for your template. However, you must do some more work to make it unique to your site only. As a result, we get many submissions that are from the generator but are not unique. I have denied approximately 80% of all templates created by the generator because they all look the same except for their colors. However, there are a few good ones out there that customized their generated template greatly and made it unique. Please keep this in mind when submitting templates from the template generator.

Thank you very much for reading this and God Bless!

JesusFreak

Yesterday was interesting, here is a summary:

Webs.com have added 3 new websites, to spice up your site! Darkroom, Luminous, and Strong.  Each template comes with several color choices for a total of 17 new designs. Awesome!

This template is so cool! Navigation bars on the top are so becoming popular now days (Facebook, Bebo, MySpace, Twitter) almost every site has one. The background is also so awesome, with the bright contrast of all those colors, bright vibrant colors! Talking of colors, the template provides an awesome contrast of colors through out the hole site, including the content areas. Over all a pretty awesome template for me!

This is also a quite popular template also and very similar to one of their previous new released templates, the Planet Eath template, but it has a simpler header but still, a large header image! A slick top navigation bar and a superior wide content area, great for websites that have a lot of information ot display!

A slick and modern template, the perfect styled template for any business. This template comes with a large header area and a great cool content area! Defonately an awesome template for many website subjects.

Now that we are a couple of days into spring break around here, we have some huge news to break (but not today); here is what you may have already noticed...

Hello Temp+ Community,

Relationships are key to growing your site. You may have one of the best sites in the world, but it won't matter if nobody comes by to see it. 

This week will be the start of a new blog series titled, "Did You Know?". In this series we share with you a feature on either Webs.com or Templ+ that not many people know about. This will be done on a weekly basis every Wednesday. So be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed!

Private Messaging on Templus!

On February 16th, 2011, Webs.com announced 6 new templates to further expand their wonderful template gallery. Some users have been wishing for this for years! Now your wish has come true. Some users are very satisfied with these new templates, while others think there should be more in specific categories. Another plus is that each template has a variation of different color schemes, which adds up to a total of 20

Template: "Camera"

Template: "Serene"

Template: "Dramatic"

Template: "Paper"

Template: "Planet Earth"

Template: "Wood Planks"

Conclusion

As you may have noticed, there has been a slight delay in templates being reviewed. We apologize for this inconvenience and we hope you can forgive us! We hope to make it up to you by some future releases we have been working on (which explains the delay in the reviewing process). However, we have gotten back into the hang of things and we are currently caught up on all the templates. Please check your profile for a comment letting you know if your template(s) were approved or denied. Thank you very much for your understanding and thank you for using Templus!