The Siteflex team has been excited recently with the launch of our first two Siteflex Facebook components, Facebook Like button and Facebook Comments. These new components allow your website community to comment on and "Like" your website's content, all via the Facebook social platform.

What does this mean for my website?

GIving people the ability to comment and contribute to content helps create a stronger sense of community and allows people to interact with your website in a new, casual way. Not to mention they offer some great word-of-mouth ways of spreading your content to people who may be interested.

Of course Facebook is a hot topic at the moment, incorporating Facebook and commenting onto your website shows that your website is moving with the times.

Great - let's get started!

We encourage all Siteflex website owners to look at their website and web presence to consider these new components and where they might be best used on your site. Keep in mind that not every page on every website is suitable for Facebook integration, indeed some websites may benefit from some simple, inobtrusive Like buttons whereas Comments would simply not make sense.

Our new Facebook components are already being used on a couple of Siteflex websites, in particular on the Solutions Outsourced Fun Stuff page and all our Blog items. Drop the Solutions team a comment while you're there! Not to mention we've got the new Facebook Like buttons up and running on the Galleries section of Noni B.

As always, let us know if you are interested in having this feature enabled on your Siteflex website.

Today we're giving the go-ahead on the updated Google Analytics code.

After a lengthy testing process to make sure all custom Siteflex Analytics functionality continues working as intended (or work better in some cases now!), we're satisfied the new Async Google Analytics code released earlier this year by Google is a nice improvement.

What does this mean for Siteflex administrators?
The main benefit of this upgrade, quite simply, is that all Siteflex sites will load faster! Of course the benefit is small, but over the course of millions of page loads Siteflex serves up it certainly adds up!

There are also a few new Siteflex-specific enhancements to give you a more broad overview of Contacts logging into your website, for any websites that have login requirements to view areas of content.

The best part? You didn't have to do anything, we've taken care of it all for you.