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We've just rolled a new update to your dashboard and the placement of the nav bar for your published booklets on a desktop. these updates should make the dashboard more accessible and bring consistency to the navigation experience across all devices.

New Dashboard

We've cleaned up and streamlined the display of the dashboard on simplebooklet. We did this for two reasons: 1, to improve the focus and user interface and make it easier to make and manage your booklets, and, 2, to prepare for our major update we are planning to release this quarter.

The dashboard has a much bigger upload tool, with a clearer display of the file types you can upload.

The display of all simplebooklets you have already created are also cleaned up and placed down the left column of your dashboard. You can search your booklets if you have quite a few.

You can go immediately to the sharing tools of your booklet from the PROMOTE button. This gives you access to all of the sharing and promotion tools for your booklet, as well as editing the URL of your booklet.

The EDIT button takes you to the presentation of your booklet. You can then select the CONTENT editor or add new ACTION buttons and links to your booklet from this tab.

Along the right side of the dashboard, you can access your account, access the booklet galleries you've created, and set your custom domain.

New Navigation Bar For Desktop Booklets

We've updated the navbar used to navigate your booklets for desktop users. We've moved it from the top of the screen to the bottom. This is to maintain consistency with your mobile and tablet views of your booklet. It's also a best practice when displaying content horizontally instead of scrolling vertically. It should allow for your content to be even more in focus for your readers.

The nav bar now extends across the entire bottom of the screen. It is also opaque to allow the background color to come through yet not interfere with the visibility of the buttons.

Other bug fixes and UI improvements

1. When switching between content, actions, and presentation, you will now stay on the same page of your booklet (no longer goes back to the first page).
2. We upgraded our text editor to support copy and paste from Word better, as well as adding the underline and italics format.
3. We've added the download button to the mobile nav bar so your mobile readers can download your booklet as a PDF to their phone and tablet.
4. We updated the page flip tool to be a little easier to use.
5. We made the color palette more consistent across the application.
6. We improved our WIX plugin tool to make it quicker and be better integrated with the simplebooklet app itself.
7. We cleaned up the Contact Card toolset.
8. We made it possible to log into your account on your mobile device and open your booklets from your dashboard straight from your phone.
9. All buttons and icons have been turned into svg icons from font-family icons. This improves the clarity and sharpness on all devices and when scaled inside the booklet.
10. WIX users who upgrade through WIX will now see their upgrade status as PREMIUM WIX to conform to the naming on WIX plugins. This is equivalent to a BASIC account on simplebooklet.
11. Improved the instructions and workflow for setting up your custom domain.

All of these updates will help us prepare you for our next release, containing improvements in conversion, more page flip options, a complete overhaul of the content creation engine, and improved emailing capabilities as well as call to action buttons.

As always, your feedback is very important to us. Email us anytime at support@simplebooklet.com and we'll respond as quick as possible.

We've improved the navigation and button icons on simplebooklet. We are now using fontawesome5's new svg icons. This allows our icons to stay sharp at any scale and be faster to load.

They also look more modern for today's web design. You don't need to do anything to start using them, they automatically are integrated into your simplebooklets.

This is a pretty big update that sets us up for some bigger releases in the coming months. A lot of updates took place under the hood to improve the peformance of simplebooklet, but you will also see a significant update to the User Interface, the Workflow, and some new tools.

This update focuses on the distribution and promotion of your simplebooklet, designed to help you get more eyeballs and follow ups from readers of your great content. To make this happen, we've made the following updates:

User Interface

The dashboard has been streamlined and now includes a highlights section, screenshots of your booklet cover page in the list view of YOUR SIMPLEBOOKLETS, and a clearer upload box so you know you can upload different formats.

The Workflow

We've also updated the workflow. Now, the focus is on promoting your booklet. With that goal in mind, we changed share to promote, created a new performance tool to improve your distribution called Optimize, and got everything working on the Analytics page.

In the menu for your simplebooklets, you will now select from two drop down menus. PROMOTE has quick access to all the ways you can promote and distribute your booklet, as well as access to your optimization and analytics tools.

The second drop down menu is EDIT, which contains all the tools you need to create and configure your simplebooklet for promotion.

This has allowed us to mentally create two stages for your booklet. The stage where you create the booklet "EDIT", and the stage where you distribute your booklet "PROMOTE".

Promotion Score and Optimization

This new feature is designed to help you get your booklet out in front of as many eyeballs as possible and to evaluate how well you are engaging those readers. The promotion score is calculated on a sum of a reach score and an engagement score. This measures you against similar type booklets and how effective they are. This also suggests actions you can take to improve your promotion score.

We hope to help you get more activity with each of your booklets so they deliver on the promise of driving more business to your business.

Video Teasers

We have also created a new promotional tool. This is the video teaser of your booklet. This will create a video of your booklet flipping through the first 25 pages. You can customize the time and flip action and then generate your video. You'll get a video that automatically flips through the pages. You can download this video and post it to youtube and vimeo, and share it on social networks like twitter, facebook, and instagram.

These videos are very lightweight and optimized for mobile, so you'll find that often they are smaller than a large image.

Check out an example on Youtube and facebook.

We'll also be releasing a number of new features shortly that will make video sharing of your booklets even easier and quicker. We hope to see people really push the limits with creating booklets specifically for video shows.

You can now customize the page turn buttons for all page transitions and add your gallery into any page in your booklet.

With the customized page turn button, you can force the page curl and double page transitions to show the page turn button. Previously, the page turn buttons would be suppressed by the curl animation. Now they appear at the edges of your landing page and on the edges of your embedded booklets.

To customize the page turn buttons, go to the BOOKLET PRESENTATION tab and select LAYOUT > PAGE BUTTONS. You can select to have your page turn buttons appear along the top or middle of the outer edge of your booklet landing page. You can also choose to have no page turn buttons so that only the curl animation is the indicator to turn pages.

You can now insert any gallery you've created into any page you have in your booklet. Go to the PAGE CONTENT tab and select GALLERY. Then from the pulldown, select the gallery you want to add to your page. The gallery will cover the entire page. You can then resize it like any other element to fit the layout of your booklet page. The gallery will automatically resize to fit within your page. If the gallery is large, a scrollbar will appear on the right side of the element container.

September 25th, 2017

We've released a new homepage to help highlight what's great about simplebooklet, how you can use it, and the benefits you'll achieve. https://simplebooklet.com/

You'll find a live example of a booklet with a full function contact card and more booklets gallery. You'll see a number of engaging action buttons throughout the pages of the booklet to see how they work in realtime.

This long weekend, we rolled a number of updates and improvements to simplebooklet. These updates improve the user experience when viewing booklets on mobile devices, allow you to better promote your booklets, and improve the way embedded booklets work. And as always, there are a number of improvements and bug fixes under the hood.

New Mobile Experience

We've completely updated the underlying approach and code base to our mobile viewer. You will now be able to zoom any page in your booklet on both android and ios devices. There is also a more up to date toolbar that can be tapped to appear or disappear, including better page selection tools. This new navigation toolbar appears along the bottom of the booklet and contains a new slide bar to turn pages quickly. Popup and content features now appear as a slide out drawer on the left to maintain the familiarity and standards of google apps.

New Gallery Integration

A gallery is a great way to show off more of your booklets. We've now made it even easier to integrate your gallery with your booklet. You can add the gallery to your booklet card. This will display your booklets as individual clickable cover pages that a reader can then click to open.

Updates to Embedded Booklets

A lot of people embed their booklets on webpages. We've worked hard to improve the way those embedded booklets work and flip for your readers. Embedded booklets now have an updated navigation toolbar with improved page selection and a new fullscreen view.

We plan to roll out a number of significant updates to simplebooklet over the next 4 weeks. A lot of stuff that we've been working on over the last couple of months.

Our first update is an improvement to the User Interface and workflow of the app for users creating booklets. We have cleaned up the interface to make it obvious the steps you take to getting your booklet ready for sharing. The tools are now available along the top of your browser window for moving between authoring steps.

We've also made it easier to edit and update the details about your booklet from the new info button in the top left corner of the toolbar.

You can preview your booklet at anytime from the eye icon in the top right corner of your toolbar.

When creating booklets from scratch, we've also introduced a number of new sizes. All booklets will work on all devices, however it can be helpful to choose a page dimension that fits your primary digital distribution channel.

Also, all modal windows now open from the left side of the UI, making them easier to work with.

From the customer visible side, popups now open from the left as well. The card with contact information will slide and reveal more information about your business and the booklet.

We'll keep posting this week with more details on the changes and updates to simplebooklet

Want to know which pages get the most views in your booklet? Now you can. If you have a Google Analytics ID, you can apply it to your booklet on the Stats Tab. This will allow Analytics to track your simplebooklets page by page. You'll know which pages are most popular and what content holds a users attention most.

We were recently featured in the business section of the Herald Tribune.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20170626/for-promotional-brochures-theres-easier-way

Check it out.

Thanks, Simplebooklet

We've added two new big features this week: a new image editing tool, and, a new copy feature to copy a page from one booklet to another.

Image Editor

You can now edit the style of your photos and images you add to your booklet page. There are a number of filters, treatments, and editing tools that can be applied to any image.

To access the image editor, you can double click on an image or tap the orange edit pencil in the editor toolbar. This will open your image in the image editor. Modify your image then click the save button to update your image on your page.

You can also replace an image on your page by selecting the image, then tapping the replace button in the editor toolbar.

Page Copy

When adding a new page to your booklet, you can now copy a page from another booklet in your account to your current booklet. This is a very useful feature for repeating content on multiple booklets and building business specific templates.

To copy a page from another booklet into your current booklet, click PAGES > NEW PAGE. You can choose to add a blank page or select a booklet from your current library. When you select your booklet, the pages will appear below. Select a booklet page to copy to your current booklet and click the create button. This will insert your booklet page into your current booklet. You can then rearrange the content if necessary.

Thanks for using simplebooklet.