The Blog

Launching version 2.0 of vouchforthis

Posted on 22. Jan, 2010 by Martin Jarvis in Recent Changes

Welcome to our new release. It has taken us a little while to deliver, but we are pleased with the results so far, and hope you prefer it too!

Our original site (shown on the right) had more effort put on the function rather than the form. We wanted to get it up and running and being used by our beta-testers before we put the additional effort in to making it look prettier. The initial trial period has gone well, with lots of new members with varied uses of testimonials registering on the site and deploying their testimonial widgets.

With the launch of Version 2.0 we have (we think) introduced a warmer style, incorporating a nifty home page slider that shows off the main advantages of vouchforthis membership, and we have also launched our community blog (you’re looking at it now). The blog will allow us to tell you what we are working on, what we have released, and what the known issues are that we are working on – yes, we know you want perfection, but even the greatest sites in the World have bugs and usability issues; the only difference is, we will tell you what ours are and what we are doing to resolve them!

It will take a while for the blog to really get going, but we hope pretty soon to extend it, for example, to feature our new members and show you how they are using their widgets. We will also nudge you with hints and tips on how to make the most of your membership.

Whilst not delivering much in the way of new functionality Version 2.0 delivers a platform on which we can now build some really great new features. These will hopefully come thick and fast over the coming months. We will announce them here, so please subscribe to our feed and add it to your reader so that you can see new posts as soon as they are added.

Thank you for your support since our launch in November 2009. We have lots planned for 2010 and will let you know what’s in store shortly. There are likely to be little bugs that show up over the next week or so as the site is used in earnest, so please let us know if you find anything wrong.