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The new DesignPro editor combines the Style and Layout editors together with some amazing new features and custom responsive design functionality in one powerful tool. You can now access all DesignPro editors, including the new Color Palette editor through a convenient side panel.

Switch between Layout and Style Editors with a just a click

Besides the completely new DesignPro application interface, the first important functionality update that you will notice, is the added support for responsive design styling. You are now able to create custom layouts for Home, Inside and Splash pages, and then style these layouts for optimal user experience on different device screens - from a big desktop monitor, through tablets to smartphones. You can set different styling options for size, appearance and default visibility state of all page elements and thus create a custom design with responsive behavior.

Preview responsive behavior for custom designs through a convenient tab interface

All custom designs created with DesignPro also feature default responsive behaviour for the Main Navigation Menu and Gallery elements. The Main Navigation Menu transforms automatically into into a mobile-friendly version for all screens with width size of 600px or less. The Gallery element is scaled to fit the device screen it is viewed on and all gallery transition effects and the large image viewer get hidden for small screen resolutions.

The second important addition to the DesignPro Editor is Color Palette Editor. This new tool lets you organize colors and backgrounds into palettes to create custom color themes for your designs. You are now able to change the colors and backgrounds of an entire custom website by just switching between palettes.

Introducing the new Color Palette Editor

The new DesignPro Editor replaces the old DesignPro application and is available in the Package editor for WebForce Class 2 and Gold accounts.

We are excited to introduce to you our latest service - Branded Tutorials

Over the years we had many partners requesting a branded tutorials and FAQs for their customers. In the past this required creating a separate website and keeping it up to date with any changes we make to the tutorials, which was a really cumbersome process. Well, not anymore.

With our new tutorial platform we can create a new help portal branded with your company name, your custom domain and a logo. And we can select what content will be visible for your customers, based on your requirements.

You can see the white-label version of our tutorials at:

http://help.premium-webhelp.com/
http://help.sitekreator.com/

and you can see an example for branded tutorials at:

Dear WebForce Partners,

We are excited to announce that WebForce is now a part of Hostopia, a business unit of Deluxe Corporation. Deluxe (NYSE: DLX), a North American-based company, provides marketing products and services to 4 million small businesses and thousands of financial institutions. Deluxe is almost 100 years old, but is on the leading edge of marketing technology, providing domains, web hosting, email marketing, logo design, SEM/SEO and web-driven printing services.

It's important to note that you can continue using WebForce as usual. The impact of this change in ownership should be transparent to you. The WebForce platform continues to operate as normal for customers and partners.

Furthermore, we will now be able to deliver even more superior product, and do it at an even faster pace. As a part of Hostopia and Deluxe, we will beef up our engineering team and increase the speed of innovation. As a result, in the not-too-distant future, you will see:

• a stunning new collection of stock designs and a larger library of vertical-specific test drives and icons

• a brand new administrative interface, including inline text and image editor, and media catalog

• new vertical-focused cloud applications and seamless integration with other business cloud applications

In addition, we expect to greatly improve the reliability of our service by leveraging Hostopia’s extensive experience as a leading web hosting and email provider. We are looking forward to seeing the WebForce platform climbing towards the top of the list of most popular site creation tools, as Hostopia and Deluxe integrate our service into their offerings.

We know that you have come to expect an excellent customer service from WebForce. Serving you well is important to us and we are excited that the Deluxe family of companies shares our commitment to customer satisfaction.

Our founder, Ivaylo Lenkov, will continue to lead us from San Francisco, and the team in Sofia, Bulgaria remains on board to continue the product development and provide support along the way.

Thank you all for your ongoing support of WebForce. We look forward to serving you for years to come. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at: support (at) webforce.com.

The WebForce Team