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It's been eight long (and exciting) months of development, and two months of private testing, but Kustom Page will be relauching soon. We are just ironing out the last few major roadblocks, and are expecting to have something out the door very shortly.

We have re-written almost the entire application. It is now more powerful, faster and easier to use than the previous versions. It also allows us to extend the system a lot further than before.

Here's some eye candy of the latest build, enjoy!

The next release of Kustom Page is still a few weeks off, but I thought I would give you a sneak peak of what's been happening (and to prove Kustom Page is still alive and crankin')

There have been a huge number of performance and code improvements over the last few releases, and this one is no different. We have spent hours and hours working away behind the scenes fixing everything from database speed issues to javascript issues.

But of course, none of that is actually very interesting until you start using it, so here's some "sneak peak" screen shots of the next version of Kustom Page, and a little something else that's on the way.

View draft and deleted page

You can now see pages you have saved as drafts (and edit them) and deleted pages.

New page editor

Designed to make it easier to managed your pages, it allows you to view to do notes, revisions and your drafts all from one easy screen.

Set page names (properly)

You will be able to set your page names properly!

See?

Sneak peak of something else that's coming very soon

It’s a week on Wednesday since I first pushed Kustom Page out the door and into the world, and I am rather proud of it. It is currently purring along on the new server commissioned just before launch, and have been tempting people to signup.

Quick Stats:

Active Users: 10 (2 people haven’t confirmed their accounts, and therefore aren’t counted)
Websites: 12
Domains: 19

While obviously not mind boggling, I personally feel it’s not all that bad considering it’s been out a week, and is still in very early beta.

Thanks to everyone who has signed up!

What’s coming up next?

In the next release, due around the 17th on the 23rd of September, we are working hard to get the following features packed in:

Blogging System – This is the big feature for this release. It supports all the common blogging tasks: Blogging (obviously), Comments, Categories and RSS Feeds.

I’m also planning on moving this blog over to the Kustom Page blog as soon as possible.

Redirect Domains – Allows you to setup domains that point to another domain. Say you have 2 domains registered, one hardtospelldomain.com and hardtospeldomain.com, you can make it so that the incorrectly spelt domain redirects to your correctly spelt one.

View My Site Link – While only a very minor “feature”, this has to be the most requested feature by beta users. You can now click View My Site from any admin page, and it will open a new browser window containing your site.

Late last night I finally managed to push a beta version of Kustom Page out the door, 5 months after writing the first line of code. And I must say, it finally feels like it’s getting somewhere.

The beta is still very rough, and still very basic, but it’s time to get people (like you) involved in the process and make sure that we’re actually on the right track to building a product people really want.

We are aiming at doing 2 weekly releases during beta – so chances are, if you find a bug, it’ll be fixed in the next release. You can log bugs using the Support link above the menu on all Kustom Page screens.

We have heaps planned for the next release, so stay tuned!

So feel free to sign up and give it a whirl!