Due to popular demand, we've added a new option to the Photo Grid block that allows you to keep photos at their normal aspect ratio instead of cropping them to a square. When they get cropped to a square thumbnail there was an issue with some vertical photos that was causing them to look blurry or pixelated. You can find this new feature when you select the "options" button on the Photo Grid properties menu.

We've been gradually trying to make our sites more compatible with mobile devices that don't support flash. This is mainly because the iPhone and iPad doesn't support it. One of the last elements on the sites that don't show up if you don't have flash installed are the animated billboards. You've probably seen the blank space where it's supposed to be if you've opened your site on an iPhone or iPad.

With an update this week, you will at least see the background image from the billboard slides in this space if the user doesn't have flash. We understand it's not a complete solution but it is much better then the blank space that was there before. We'll be working on improving this more in the future as well.

We've just updated our Setup Wizard. This is the step-by-step area that you go through when you first create a site. So for those of you out there that create multiple sites with SnapPages you will notice this the next time you go to create one.

The goal with this new Setup Wizard is to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get a site up an running. I have some other new stuff I'm working on that I hope to release this week as well so stay tuned for those.

In the past we've had some issues with users accidently deleting the wrong page. Generally we can always recover these pages but it is a manual process that can take some time. Normally this isn't too big of a problem unless you do something like accidently delete your home page.

From now on you should see a button at the bottom of your list of pages in the Web Pages app that says "deleted pages". When you click on this you will see a list of pages you've deleted and you can restore them back to your drafts folder. This feature won't really work for pages you deleted in the past, but any pages you delete from now on will show up in this list.

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