No longer do you need to jump out of your site's lovely design framework to view your Snapflex gallery.

The Insert Flash popup has now been expanded to include the option to easily embed Snapflex image galleries into the content of your Siteflex website.

In addition, the Insert PDF popup has metamorphosed into the vastly superior Insert Document popup - allowing users to easily insert links to uploaded documents of multiple document formats into your website's Siteflex content areas.

Available document formats include Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft Word documents, Powerpoint files and, of course, PDFs.

Check out a live gallery embed demonstration

Any avid Internet user will have likely experienced their fair share of "ahh man... I didn't want that!" moments where clicking a link results in something unexpected and/or unwanted. Whether it be opening a web page in a new browser window, opening a bulky PDF reader or opening a bulky email program the outcome is the same; an interuppted browsing experience and a mildly frustrated user that is now less trusting of links on your website.

Way back in 1999 Jackob Nielsen, in his article The Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 1999, likened the practice of opening up new browser windows to a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer's carpet

In response to this small but important usability issue, Siteflex users may have noticed some new icons automagically appearing on these special links on their websites.


Giving adequite warning about unusual links helps your site's usability - letting you have your link and eat it too!

For more information on this topic:

• Open New Window Still Has Usability Issues (justaddwater.dk, 2007)
• Beware of Opening Links in a New Window (sitepoint.com, 2004)

Get your images positioned exactly how you want them with the new margin enhancements in the Siteflex Content Insert Image popup.

Additionally, the default behavior for images being floated left or right has changed to be more user friendly; Siteflex will now automatically add an opposing margin to the float direction, putting some spacing between the image and the text.

By adding in some new practical default behaviors for common tasks we're hoping the Siteflex experience becomes even easier.