We are going to move WebAsyst on the new PHP5 server on Wednesday, 11/21/2007. This upgrade will require turning off WebAsyst server temporarily from 0 am to 1 am EDT. You will not be able to login to WebAsyst hosted accounts at that time and access your services.

We will do our best to perform the upgrade as soon as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Nov 21, 1am EDT - The upgrade has been successfully completed.

We have introduced another AJAX features to our WebAsyst Photos services. You no longer need to open a new page to add or edit your photo description. Simply click anywhere in description area to trigger edit mode, as shown in the sample below.

When you click the Save button, your new description will be immediately updated without reloading the entire list of photos.

NOTE: In the previous version we had separate Title and Description fields. We have now dropped the Title field and retained only one field. This allows photo description editing to be more straightforward and usable. In order to save user data, we have merged old titles and descriptions into the new Description field.

We have launched a new web service — WebAsyst Shopping Cart.

This service allows you to create your own online store and integrate a shopping cart feature into any website (blog) using widgets. We invite everyone to try our new service! It’s free.

Here is an example of how WebAsyst Shopping Cart allows you to embed an ordering function directly into this page (it adds sample product Apple iPhone for $399 to your shopping cart):

If you click this button, iPhone will be added to your cart and you will be offered to checkout. Shopping cart page will be shown directly in this page content.

The WebAsyst Shopping Cart was developed on the basis of Shop-Script - another software product from our company.

Currently WebAsyst Shopping Cart is not available as downloadable software (only hosted version is available). We are developing this option, and plan to introduce a downloadable version on February 2008.

We have improved the Add Contact and Edit Contact forms using AJAX. These forms now work much faster without reloading contact list page.

For new forms we have added a Fields… button which you can use to customize visible fields in contact information records; e.g. phone numbers, addresses, notes etc. You can specify filled fields (i.e. that contain some information) to be always visible.

When adding/editing contact information, there are enhanced validation and error control functions. Fields of the Memo type (e.g. Notes) have dynamic height: it means they “grow” if you add more lines to your text, as illustrated in the sample below.

We have also redesigned Delete Contact function utilizing AJAX, and it now works without reloading the entire contact list.

WebAsyst Slideshow widget allows you to embed a window into a page on your website or blog, and to display in this window a slideshow of selected photos or an entire album from your WebAsyst Photos account.

How it works:

All images are actually located in your WebAsyst Photos account. You can upload and organize them using familiar WebAsyst Photos features. If you want to publish some photos or an entire album on an external webpage available for other people, simply select these photos or album, click "Create a Widget" button, and then copy and paste a piece of HTML code on your external webpage; e.g. on a page on your corporate website or in your blog.

You can change multiple settings of your widget to best suit the website where you wish to embed it; e.g. Size (Width and Height), Background Color, enable/disable Auto-Play on Start option and navigation buttons etc. You can even enable Add/Delete buttons in your widget which allow adding/deleting images directly from your widget without logging in your WebAsyst Photos account.

Read detailed description of the widget with live samples.

We have redesigned the Hide/Show Folders feature. There is a small “X” icon on the Folders pane caption. By clicking this icon you can hide the folder pane and expand main content area to the entire width of your browser. This function now utilizes AJAX and works quickly, without reloading the page. To see the Folder pane again, click the small icon that appears next to the folder name, as shown in the sample below:

Some operations automatically reopen the Folders pane if it was previously hidden; e.g. Add Folder, Rename Folder, Add Link/Widget, etc., and usually move you out of the current folder. The auto-opening Folders pane simplifies navigation, and helps you to avoid confusion by clearly showing your new position in the Folders tree.

Today we have released another upgrade for five WebAsyst services: Files, Photos, Contacts, Mail, Notes. In each of these services we have added AJAX features to the main manipulations with folders as illustrated below.

Adding new folder and renaming folder inline:

Moving folder (drag and drop):

Deleting folder does not reload the whole page. The Customizing Folder Access Rights function has been separated from the former Modify Folder page, and is available now directly from Folder menu. Also, the Propagate Access Rights function has been encapsulated into the Customize Access Rights page.

Recently we have released WebAsyst File List widget that allows you to embed selected files or an entire folder from your WebAsyst Files account into a page on your website or blog.

How it works:

All your files are actually located in your WebAsyst Files account. You can upload and organize them using familiar WebAsyst Files features. If you want to publish some files or a folder on an external webpage available for other people, simply select these files or folder, click "Create a Widget" button, and get a piece of HTML code that you can then copy and paste on your external webpage - it could be a page on your corporate website or in your blog.

You can change multiple settings of your widget for the best fit with the website where you wish to embed it. View settings allow you to select Grid or List format, visible columns (e.g. Size, Date, Description), icon size (Small, Large, or Thumbnail), border, etc.

Read detailed description of the widget with live samples.

In the latest WebAsyst Files upgrade we have replaced old Send Email page with new AJAX-based dialog. It contains “select from My Contacts” link that pops down My Contacts window with Search feature and more usable navigation between available user groups, contact folders, and contact lists.

In order to add contact to your recipient list in Send Email dialog, you have to double-click this contact in My Contacts. You can double-click entire Contact List – all contacts from this list will be added to recipients. You can also manually type email addresses into To: box.

Online Folder widget has been just released. Online Folder is a tool that can be placed into your blog or webpage to list folder content and allow everyone to add files to this folder. Clicking on a file name opens it in a new browser window. Widget users can also delete files from Online Folder (this option can be disabled during widget customization step):

Creating Online Folder
Follow these steps to create an Online Folder widget and to place it on a web page:

1. Select a folder in your WebAsyst Files account, click Create a Widget, and select “Online Folder” in a pop-up window:

1. Give a name to your widget, e.g. “My Documents”.
2. Get HTML code and simply copy and paste this code into your blog or a webpage.

Customizing Online Folder widget
You can modify widget’s properties: color, size, text, limit on number of files or maximum size of file to be uploaded, online folder name, and a file delete option. If you choose to delete a widget, it will no longer be available on the Internet for others to use.

We are currently working on designing a collection of neat and useful widgets for all WebAsyst services, and will include them in the future WebAsyst releases. Stay tuned!