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We have finally added workflow support and site accounts to ProsePoint Express!

These two are long standing feature enhancements that have been on the 'to do' list for a while, so we're happy they're in.

At ProsePoint Express, we are always on the lookout for ways to optimise our user's sites for search engines. Whilst many factors are outside our control such as good content and link building, we do make sure that user sites conform to best practices for the technical aspects of on-site search engine optimisation (seo).

Setting up your own newspaper or magazine website can be quite an onerous and time-consuming task. Many people start upon this path for various reasons of cost, control, or simple curiousity, yet without really knowing the full extent of the undertaking.

As a provider of online newspaper and magazine website solutions, we often encounter people new to online publishing with notions which are not quite correct or which need updating. Some of these are assumptions from the world of print media which don't really apply online. Some others are just things which merely need pointing out. In the interests of anyone else who may be considering publishing their own news or magazine website, we've collected a list of them here.

ProsePoint Express will be temporarily offline on March 12th 2012 from 02:00am to 06:00am UTC (Greenwich Mean Time) for scheduled maintenance. During this event, the ProsePoint Express service will be unavailable. ProsePoint Express user sites should be available (but no changes or edits can be made).

Whilst we expect the maintenance to take about an hour, we are allocating four hours in case of unexpected difficulties.

We will be logging the progress of this event on the status page at http://status.prosepoint.net.

You do not need to take any action. Your ProsePoint Express site will remain the same before and after the maintenance window.

Thank you.

It's been a while since we've posted about recent updates to ProsePoint Express. We have been busy, but not always on things which are visible or noticeable to users. Here's a selective list which readers may find interesting.

On September 26th 2011, ProsePoint Express suffered its first major unscheduled outage.

An intermittently faulty disk caused the service to go down for 30 minutes. In the scramble that followed, we quickly restored the service without really knowing the root cause. After more investigation, we decided that ProsePoint Express couldn't continue operating uninterrupted with any degree of confidence. It was decided to conduct emergency maintenance to replace the faulty disk (Actually, we replaced the server containing the faulty disk, but the effect is the same). That resulted in an additional 50 minutes of unscheduled outage.

After the emergency maintenance, ProsePoint Express was restored back to normal.

This outage was a rude shock.

Just a short announcement.

We recently updated the Visual editor in ProsePoint Express on October 8th. Unfortunately, this seems to have broken the editor for some users. The reason is that some web browsers are caching some of the old javascript files used by the editor. If the visual editor suddenly stops working for you, you may be encountering this issue.

ProsePoint Express will be temporarily offline on September 26th 2011 from 02:00am to 06:00am (Greenwich Mean Time) for routine scheduled maintenance. During this time, the ProsePoint Express service and all ProsePoint Express sites will be unavailable.

ProsePoint Express now has 3, 6 and 12 months billing available. Previously, the only way to avoid making a payment every month was to pay more than the order amount in advance. Each subsequent order would then be paid from account credit until exhausted.