We've just released a major change to how saving works on Webon. We've adopted the model made popular with Google Docs and other popular Web 2.0 applications.

Webon now auto-saves once every 2 minutes. There is also a 'save' button in the upper right corner. You can manually save any time you like by clicking this. Webon will also save whenever you switch pages or close your site.

This change speeds up the editor considerably and should give users a better sense of security about their changes being saved.

What has been removed with this release is the "Undo" function that used to pop-up when you would move a picture or delete an object. You will now be given a warning when deleting items about whether the item can be easily replaced from the Add-on Manager or the Media Manager (such as Guestbooks, Maps, Photos, etc) or if it will be permanently deleted (such as Custom HTML).

Leave any questions you have about this here in the comments and we'll answer.

Hey everyone. Got some cool new features and some important information for you.

RE-CAPTCHA
We are so pleased to inform you that we have switched from our in-house Captcha to the more common, industry-standard "Re-Captcha" technology used by many popular Internet sites. Instead of a jumbled collection of letters and numbers that users are as likely to get wrong as to get right we now have a display of two words that are easier to read and get correct. It will still serve to filter out a majority of Spam posts and will make it a lot easier for you and your users to leave comments on Guestbooks, bodys, and Photo Albums.

WEBON DATABASE SERVER UPGRADE
This morning we moved the Webon database to it's own, dedicated server machine. This is something that has no visible effect but will serve to help the Webon Editor move a bit more quickly as it switches between pages. It's part of a broad series of changes we are making to speed up the Editor. We are also about to release a change to the way Webon auto-saves pages that will further increase the speed of the Editor. We will do a body post all about it next week when the code change goes out.

NEW STYLES
We released 5 new styles yesterday. And there will be many more in the coming months. We brought in a dedicated employee for styles this summer and he is really getting the hang of things and beginning to turn them out faster and faster.

• Coffee Smoked: a cool, loungy style with smoke-curl accents
• Floral Clover: featuring an attractive illustration with dusty green tones
• Scratched: grungy and urban with a heathy dose of attitude
• Skooled: will appeal to site owners with a focus on education
• Woofers: a bright, happy style built for dog lovers

MIGRATION APPROACHING 100%
You may have seen, heard, read about the Migration that has been occuring on Tripod.com where users of Trellix can move their sites onto Webon. After various fit and starts we've finally reached almost 100% availability of the process to Tripod users of Trellix. Working on this occupied almost all of our development resources this past summer and really affected the pace at which we have been able to do bug fixing and roll out new features for Webon. We are SO pleased to be almost done with this because we want to do some serious upgrades and enhancements to Webon this fall and winter and we're just about at the point where we can.

We are aware of some of the bugginess around Fonts, Photo Albums, and other parts of the Webon Editor that have crept in in the last months and we want to assure you that we will be fixing them and bringing Webon back up to the standard that you should expect.

More information coming soon about some of the upcoming projects.

Thank you so much for using Webon!