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ND Sandbox with 7 new landing pages

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I promised you new toys a week ago as well as during this weekend and, thanks to some late night implementation, we're able to present to you...

The ND Sandbox with 7 new landing pages

May Day is not just a time for Morris dancers, you too can dance with glee as you play with yet another ND innovation.

We've always believed being with a specific parking program should not mean you are tied to a specific type of page. We therefore offer you seven new page designs to choose from, ranging from the very basic to a sophisticated, javascript page.

Not only this, but you also have access to the ND Sandbox. In the past, clicking the magnifying glass when optimizing a domain, would only show the related searches the keyword would display. Now, you can see a preview of the entire page.
A nice start in itself.

Now the fun bit. By pressing 'customize' at the top of the preview page (sorry for the US spelling), you can now choose any settings you wish (including one of the 7 new templates), click 'refresh' and there you have your new page previewed.
If you have international domains, you can also preview the page across 8 different language regions.
By clicking on the domain name itself, you can now select not only keyword per ad region, but the entire look of your page. US internet users, for example, seem to be fans of the JSX page. If you can't for the life of you optimize a domain, then maybe you need the Searchbox page.

We're delighted to bring you this tool. It gives you great control over your domains, not only to get them looking just how you want, but also to make the most out of domains which are perhaps not performing as well as you like.

We hope you enjoy using the Sandbox, it will develop over time, being more or less in the post-beta phase. It is the first of several fun things coming out in the coming weeks. Hopefully more on that later this week.

I'm off to the traffic event in Vegas today :)

Hope you all have a good bank holiday and a great week.

Ed
 
These new template styles are great ED, one issue I've noticed though is that there is no 'enquire about this domain' link on the Canvas and Basic 2 templates, unless Im going blind or something : www.windowsexpert.co.uk

Many thanks, Grant
 
Nice feature Ed, many thanks. One suggestion...

On the 'Search Box' page could you give the textbox focus so the user doesn't have to click on the box before they type? (a la google)
 
BRILLIANT!

Great for fine Tuning in real time!

The Future of Parking!

I hear boots shaking in Germany;)
 
I'm blown away. A bunch of new templates and a sandbox. Nice work, thanks.

eetc
 
Hi guys,

Glad you like it :)

Please for give me if I am less than erudite. I left my homely home exactly this time 24 hours ago and have just arrived in Vegas. Brain fried. Will pass on suggestions to tech.

More response tomorrow...

Bed time.

Ed
 
Hi Tifosi,

We've, er, had that since September.

If you look at www.boxedset.co.uk, then the link takes you to Edwin's sales page. Is this what you mean? Just drop me a mail with how the link should look for you.

Off to the Strip..

Ed
 
NameDriver said:
Hi Tifosi,

We've, er, had that since September.

If you look at www.boxedset.co.uk, then the link takes you to Edwin's sales page. Is this what you mean? Just drop me a mail with how the link should look for you.

Off to the Strip..

Ed

sheesh... turn around and you miss things. Yes, that's what I'm after. Just didn't see it in the config. Is it something that has to be done per requested user?

Pressed every button I can see, but can't see how I get past the 'no sale / for sale' options to set to a custom setting and redirect?

S
 
If in doubt, I suggest pressing every button you can see at all times :)

Just send me a mail or PM saying what text you'd like the link to show and what format you'd like us to supply it in.

Jetlag and beer. Going to be interesting...

Ed
 
NameDriver said:
Jetlag and beer. Going to be interesting...

Ed

I always find 16pints, a chicken lamboona and an all night poker session does wonders for jetlag.

....but whadda I know, I'm a 4ft hunchback with an 80 a day habit and a penchant for jonnie walker and crunchy peanut butter.

painting walls. mmm fumes, does wonders for the head!

:) S

p.s. I'll drop you a mail
 
Can i just say the templates are excellent!

its taken me a while to work out what you lot were talking about as i have an arrangement on my main computer when you click the magnifying glass i just get a popup of the main page and not a preview.

I will reinstall just to use these new features!
many thanks ed and team!

stop press!
Just a thought, i'm sure all the templates are designed with SEO in mind and i know there are heavy defences in the search engine world to restrain parked pages but are any of the new features going to have adverse effects on SEO.

Ths templates look great and will have performance improvements but for domains with just a trickle of traffic what little comes from SEO might be important.

just thinking aloud
 
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