MyAccount: Are you sure your subscription won’t expire soon? Check it out on the newly designed myAccount section.

We have redesigned the structure, and the design of your myAccount section, for clearer visibility and easier usage. You can see your order history, and there is even a countdown timer showing the days you have left of your current subscription.

Improving your brand’s social media engagement: Learn from the guys at Buddy Media

Do you know what time it’s best for you to engage your audience? You can learn this, among other things, if you read this catching article on Mashable.

Do you, your company or website have a Facebook page? If so, I’m pretty sure you will be interested in today’s article.

Times never forgotten: Picture gallery for pics-or-it-never-happened!

Every year, millions of people await the come of winter to take out their ski or snowboard sets that have been collecting dust for the better part of the year. Then they go out to the slopes, and make the best of the time they can spend with winter sports. Usually these are the best trips of every year. The amount of photos people take in these times is overwhelming. I took 346 photos on my last 4 day ski trip! What better way to share these photos then to place it into a picture gallery on your site, then share it on any of the 300+ social media websites supported? I bet this will even increase the traffic of your site. Is this not enough? Why not blog about your favorite winter moments? Grab a cup of hot chocolate and get social media active with our web 2.0 features!

Mashable: Facebook launches Pages overhaul

“After launching a Profile redesign in December, Facebook released design and feature changes to Pages today, bringing them up to date with a new design that features photos. The result? Page owners now have more reach and utility across the platform.” www.mashable.com

Packages and Functions: Updates for you!

What does it mean that we have reshuffled the functions? Well it actually means that you get more functions in the same package! You can now send newsletters from the Community Package; the awesome Media Lead Box also moved down one step, and you can get pageview statistics across all packages now, etc.! We hope you all enjoy your new functions!

TechCrunch: The Crunchies

The Crunchies Awards is the award gala that I look forward to most every year. More than the Oscar, or the Grammy. If you have missed this year’s, you can check it out here! You can view the whole event, or just the highlights that interest you.  techcrunch.com

Catalog, Request a quote

Do you propose different prices individually to your customers? Now you can enable your customers to request a price quote for individual or multiple items from your catalog or webshop. I just wish we would have thought of this before! It is so simple and straightforward, yet extremely useful.

5 International Online Marketing Tips

Many companies have taken on the challenge of going international with the help of online tools. Some well prepared have easily conquered the cultural differences, but some have fallen to this feat. Just as a reminder, so we don’t forget the tricks-of-the-trade here are five very well written tips on what to watch out for when marketing on an international level! Click the Mashable logo to read the article!

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You can build your web development business with WebriQ tools with lower skilled and cheaper human resources than your competitors. You can add unlimited current and future services as they deem appropriate to acquire and retain your customer base and mark up the bill at their discretion. WebriQ will stand by in the background with all these tools and even design and special template building services. So the end user won’t come across the WebriQ brand and you can operate under your own brand practically. For enquiries write an email to feedback@webriq.com Visit for details @ http://webtoolscloud.com

WebriQ’s Switch2WebriQ partnership offers a genuine business solution for web designers, webmanagers, webmasters and webagencies. Partners receive a state-of-the-art service and highly competitive pricing to enhance their business efficiency. Switch2WebriQ partners receive substantial discounts from normal WebriQ package prices, as well as a free marketing portal for their business. Also, using WebriQ’s innovative template creator tool webdesigners can concentrate on designing, and use the CMS as the tool to add the functionality needed for the website. WebriQ is now announcing a unique certification opportunity for those who have CSS and HTML programming skills. You can go through a series of online tutorial exercises, then complete an exam and submit a template that if accepted will grant you a WebriQ Certification.

A few changes have been made on the Content Management System to enhance SEO operations, e-commerce functionality and some user administration tasks, among others.

The most important addition is the broader utilization of SEO options. It is now possible to set Meta tags and descriptions for individual blog posts, custom pages, articles, etc. This function can be reached from a newly added SEO settings tab on the content editing pane. This will enhance the search hits of the site and the individual pages as well.

Secondly, the internal search engine has been improved for more specific searches. Now there is a choice to search pages and articles, shop, audio and video, subsites, etc. Also, the engine will examine the descriptions for any matches.

Thirdly, a site owner can back-up its entire user list on a particular website into a password protected ZIP file and then upload it again if and when needed.

Also, a tracker that has been implemented into the newsletter section. The number of subscribers, the number of people who have unsubscribed and the number of users who have not subscribed to the newsletters are computed.

Last but not least, the functionality of the e-commerce module has been improved to cope with different shipping conditions. There is a choice of grams, kilograms, tons or pounds for weight based shipping prices as well as the already existing per item calculation.

To have an overview on the latest prices of WebriQ for the use of the CMS system and the hosting, please go to SERVICE PRICES

Two WebriQ commercial offers will remain on the market until the end of Q3 2010.

One special offer is the conversion of your PSD File into a WebriQ compatible HTML/CSS custom made template and the integration of that template into a fully contained online content management system for the price of USD 200.

Our second complex offer consists of

• a 2 year E-commerce service package
• 1 free domain registration
• 50 e-mail accounts
• and includes the conversion of your PSD file into WebriQ compatible HTML/CSS template.

All this for USD 400!

For more information, please contact us at feedback@webriq.com or visit www.webriq.com or www.webriq.net. For all partner inquiries on the S2W program, visit www.switch2webriq.com or www.switch2webriq.net.

We have updated our Content Management Platform today with a couple of very interesting and innovative features that will surely enhance the viewers experience on your already created or newly created website with WebriQ.

First and foremost we have added a couple of social media sharing features enabling you and the viewers of your website to share data of your website with other social media sites that you are running. Four options are available in the definition settings: Display Facebook like button, Display “Add this:share” in the galleries, Display “Add this:bookmark” in the Footer and Display “Add this: bookmark” in the shop area. Enabling those features will allow anyone coming to the site to share the content of your site with other social media sites like Facebook and also allowing your viewers to rate content on your website.

The second set of updates has been done in the shop area, where we basically enhanced the user experience on many areas like the invoicing and billing area, the shipping methodology logic, additions to the shopping cart and the wishlist.

Third we made it easier to change the logo on your website and the Favicon on the website: simply upload your logo in the definition area and the logo picture will automatically re size itself to fit in nicely in the area set for the logo. The same methodology is used for the Favicon icon, displayed in front of your URL. All this to enhance the look and feel of your site by just a couple of simple additions and a couple of clicks.

And last, we have enhanced the user interface on the Newsletter module. All modules have now a unified user interface and navigation mechanism, to make it easy for all the content managers to navigate through all the modules available on the WebriQ content management platform.

As of a couple of weeks ago, you can Register your domains from within the WebriQ platform, by logging in to your site and clicking on Register domains on the welcome page. You can also transfer your existing domain to WebriQ and therefore redirect your domain to your WebriQ subdomain.
As well as set your MX record for for example Google Business Apps or Zoho mail.

To have an overview on our latest prices for the use of the CMS system and the hosting, please go to SERVICE PRICES

Two WebriQ commercial offerings will remain in the market until the end of Q3 2010.
One special offer is the conversion of your PSD File in to a WebriQ compatible HTML/CSS custom made template and the integration of that Template in to a fully contained online content management system for the price of 200 USD.
A second offer adds a 2 Year E-commerce service, 1 Free Domain registration and 50 e-mail boxes to the Template design and the entire package is priced at 400 USD.

For more information, please contact us at feedback@webriq.com or visit www.webriq.com or www.webriq.net. For all partner inquiries on the S2W program, visit www.switch2webriq.com or www.switch2webriq.net

WebriQ is adding a very useful feature to its content management platform, enabling customers to back-up and restore up to five different versions of the website, including various different Templates and all the content that has been uploaded to the version that is been backed up. And on top of that, you can restore any of the five versions at any given time and that version will be live in a matter of seconds. Beyond that WebriQ is providing an auto backup service for all those who subscribe to the Pro WebriQ version and this every 48hours, and also these versions can be restored to the URL in case customers have not used the manual back up facility.

“This adds a lot of security to our content management platform”, said Philippe Bodart, owner of WebriQ. It allows customers to safely store not only their Design and Template settings but also allows them to safely store and eventually restore all the precious content that has been uploaded to the CMS Platform.

A second feature that is added is the Domain Registration Manager and the Domain Manager– as of today customers can directly register domains from the central page of WebriQ and this at very attractive prices and the domain manager allows you to redirect an existing or new domain to your WebriQ subdomain and also allows you to set-up Google Business Apps applications within your own domain, and setting the MX Type and MX ID so that your e-mails are integrated within the same DNS environment. Amongst other, we support ZOHO e-mail and other ZOHO business applications.

Two WebriQ commercial offerings will remain in the market until the end of Q3 2010.

One special offer is the conversion of your PSD File in to a WebriQ compatible HTML/CSS custom made template and the integration of that Template in to a fully contained online content management system for the price of 200 USD.

A second offer adds a 2 Year E-commerce service, 1 Free Domain registration and 50 e-mail boxes to the Template design and the entire package is priced at 400 USD.

For more information, please contact us at feedback@webriq.com or visit www.webriq.com or www.webriq.net. For all partner inquiries on the S2W program, visit www.switch2webriq.com or www.switch2webriq.net.

About WEBRIQ

WEBRIQ is based in Singapore and is operating from datacenters in the USA, Europe and Australia. WEBRIQ has associated companies in Belgium, Hungary and India and sales partners in USA and Australia. WEBRIQ is in operation for about 24 months, launched its Beta service in December, 2008 and its full commercial service in November, 2009.

WordPress ..usable beyond blogging?

It is widely accepted that WordPress is an excellent system when you want your ideas out quickly on the web. It is therefore often used as a blog, because you are out there quickly, but WordPress can be configured in many different ways.

WordPress is extremely easy to use and setup. It can of course work as a blog, comments are already built into the system, as well as pinging services, multiple blogger profiles, trackbacks and common features you might expect from a blog. Most of the functionality is out of the box, and works as expected without the need of customization.

But the fact that customization was not the key driver for WordPress, also is to a certain extend its limitation. Because very often, if you try to customize or you try to do different things with the system, causes it break or disappear altogether. WordPress is far from being developer friendly and too many times upgrades to the system causes your website to simply disappear as well along with the upgrade and the customization and modifications you made are no longer available.

WordPress Advantages

• Very easy to use and few modifications are needed
• Excellent for blogging or sharing thoughts in a sequential manner
• Easy learning curve, also for the not so sophisticated users

WordPress Cons

• Not developer friendly
• The community seems to like to complain
• Upgrades bring more bugs than fixes

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Only within the last year has WordPress actually begun to step up as a true CMS. However the other two, Drupal and Joomla, have seemingly always been fighting for that top spot in the community. Both are open source, and both are widely developed with thousands of members in their community helping to develop and extend the possibilities of use for each. While WordPress is considered the underdog in the CMS war, it is most definitely the king of blogging software (something that Joomla and Drupal struggle to do efficiently).

In contrast, Commercial Open Source systems are build on open source technology but are bundled as a software service in a service platform with a large amount of standard features embedded in the platform. Those platforms have a tendency to eliminate the FUD factor when implementing the latest web technologies, they eliminate the proprietary licensing fees, they are lowering the cost of ownership by simplifying development and maintenance efforts, they are delivering a scalable solution that meets the demands of small and large enterprises and they are enticing both the Business owner and the Web Developers alike. The last point being the key difference between the open source platforms and the current available commercial open source platforms.

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