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DistribuSuite has gone under the knife! This new look reaps all of the benefits of a cosmetic face lift: ever so refreshing, youthful and vibrant! This exciting new look allows the end user to realize the features that were overlooked as well as appreciate the new.

We have added a rich, new color scheme, easily accessible favorites, and have done some extensive back end work to make the system much more efficient and user friendly.

Our in house writer has also spent very long hours perfecting and creating video tutorials to assist user questions with a visual step by step user guide. Making our FAQ's a cinch! Interested in our software? Give us a ring at 888.776.1135 and ask for me, Trisha, to receive a free demo and a 10% discount off your purchase.

A couple weeks ago, we spent some time reworking the event portions in SalesdeskSuite.  A major revamp went into how we displayed the events.  Along with each event, we now provide extra information on each popup such as:

1. Event title
2. Start and end time
3. Contact Name
4. Location
5. URL
6. Description

Another cool feature we added in here was the legend.  Since we allow the user to add different types of events, each event type is assigned a color.  So if the user wanted to see only "Personal" events on his calendar, all he had to do was to click on the personal legend and the calendar quickly filters outs other events.

Have a love for food or fashion...or both? If so, check out one of our newest BlogSuite customers' personal blog, Dominique Rooney's Food Meets Fashion Blog.

Follow her as she explores the popular, trendy path of food and fashion and see how she creatively ties them both together with each new experience.

Travel with her to the newest, trendiest restaurants and get her thoughts on the latest fashion trends and beauty fads. Stay ahead of the game Dominique by your side.

Find fashion, restaurant, and beauty reviews all in one fun, fabulous and custom destination. Want to learn more ways to "Go Green"? Dominique can help you out with that too...don't hesitate and take a peak! Visit her blog at http://blog.foodmeetsfashion.com

Are you interested in having your very own custom blog to stay connected with the outisde world and share your unique experiences? Learn how BlogSuite can help. Visit http://www.matrixblogsuite.com to learn more today.

New Features:

1.       Added email subscriptions for comments.

2.       Added Home link in settings, customer can set the home URL, per tenant.

3.       Added ability to customize the ICO file per tenant.

4.       Added 2 new themes.

Fixes:

1.       Fixed registration link for multi tenant.

Added new updates:

1.       Added new report programs for Open Orders, Back Orders, Open Purchase Orders, Purchase Order History, Vendor Invoices , and Vendor Invoice History.  All work like Sales Analysis where you can build the reports and save them if you choose.  NEW NOTE, we have been asked to added ordering capabilities in, they are scheduled.

2.       Sales Analysis, added ability to export to excel.

3.       Added quotes and ability to update a quote to an order.

4.       Added in logo’s per warehouse.  This will allow custom logos to print on each order coming from different warehouses.

5.       Added order class to Quickbooks sync.

6.       Added ability for Item notes to be set to print on Order receipt, Picking slips, Packing Slips, Invoices, Quotes, and Purchase Orders.

7.       Added ability to select an option to allow Order receipts to print at the end of the order for internal use.  Without this option checked nothing prints at the end of order.  Pick slips are printed in Pick list print.

8.       Added BOM print for items that a Bill of Material has been setup.

9.       Added advanced Inventory Inquiry.  Still in beta.

10.   Added Vendor Cross reference to allow Vendor numbers to print on PO’s.

11.   Added Vendor Invoice sync to Quickbooks.

12.   Added permissions to control who has access to programs.

New features:

1.       Added email to Contractor/Affiliate at work order print stage.

Fixes:

1.       My orders has a blank info panel come up when you close your browser and reenter.

2.       The automatic billing is not working for CC accounts, failed never saw it in CC company.

3.        G/L accounts are wrong on CSE print, should be the Cash one and receivables.

4.        With Proof Form Reprint or Open Orders, Go to Close Order tab of a work order and click on Proof Code search icon. The window grays out but the popup proof search window doesn’t appear.

5.        Autobill, is not charging the fees and fees advanced.

6.       Due diligence option now prints ALL status updates on proofs.

7.       Minor print issues.

New Features:

1.       Added advanced calendars, month view, week view, and day view.

2.       Sorting by event type on calendars

3.       Sharing of contacts between other users.

4.       Managers can “impersonate” other users to see contacts, schedule, etc.

5.       Added document management.  For contacts and a light version of FileItsuite for electronic filing of other documents.  You can create any groups you like.

6.       Emails, meetings, documents, everything is tracked for the contacts.

7.       Added popup (ajax) reminders for meetings, events.

8.       Ability to add more contacts into meetings.

9.       Ability to email confirmation for meetings to contacts.

10.   Added power search, ability to search calendar, events, etc.

Fixes:                                        

1.       Info panel after sending email. 

2.       Font style was stripped when sending emails.

3.       Fixed pager in group detail.

4.       Ability to print contact list view.

5.       Ability to add contacts to many groups.

6.       Past events now move to history.

7.       Fixed list view search.

8.       Search is erroring on live site.  Make sure it searches, Company name, customer number, first and last.

9.       Fixed process documents.

10.   Styled send email

Coming changes:

1.       Ajax add contact

2.       Multiple email addresses

3.       Ajax add group

4.       New themes to allow changing of colors.

5.       Mass emailer to group, contact, multiples.  Copy myself.  This will accept html.

6.       Licensing fix.

7.       Fix for import and export of contacts into Excel.

8.       Use of reminder time.

9.       Need to print all calendar views.  Week view is bad.

10.   Need format download for import.

11.   When viewing groups, we need a button to add a contact.

12.   Use of checkboxes for sub products, eg Fileitsuite.

13.   Custom area will have better control.  Ability to create login for customers to pull and comment on documents like quotes.

14.   Metrics in control panel.

a.       Number of users, number of contacts each user has, number of logins over a period by user.   Hmm more thought here.  As an admin I would like to see how much my sales staff is interacting with contacts.  Follow ups, open items, etc..  And print everything to pdf.

SEO is a big thing to consider when creating a website and of course, us being a web design and development studio, we try to follow SEO best practices to ensure our clients get quality coded products. In this article we will see how one of our products, BlogSuite, has the powerful feature of easily customizing the default blog page "title" and "description" tag.

How to get there

When the admin logs into the BlogSuite control panel, they click on "Settings" and will then be presented with general blog settings. Scroll to the bottom, and there is a "Main Blog Settings" section. Here you can edit three fields labeled "Default Title", "Default Meta Description" and "Default Meta Keywords". Why is this feature important? Well it offers you the opportunity to define content that may relate to your customer/user base. Search engines such as Google or Yahoo, will comb through this defined content and will use it as a means to decide how relevant your content is to someones search. The screen may look something like this:

After you add your content and hit save, the new blog template will contain this new information on the home page of your BlogSuite powered site. If you were to check your home page's source code, you would see the following code updated at the top:

How do I write my description or choose my keywords?

There are many sites and articles just discussing this topic alone. Here are some neat articles that provide some helpful tips:

• Keyword Suggestion Tool - Keyword Popularity Tool

• Ontology Finder - Related Keywords Lookup Tool

• Meta Tags Generator

• A whole list of tools on Smashing Magazine

Is this all that matters?

When it all comes down to it, the answer is no. Although defining this content will help with targeting your website to certain searches, it's not the only thing that a search engine will look at it and analyze. Other factors such as the number of outer links connecting to your site, how much traffic you receive, and how often your site is updated are just some other key items you should always consider when running your online site. We do highly suggest starting an active blog as it provides a channel for you to reach out to your customers and for them to respond back, thus creating more traffic.

Take a test drive of BlogSuite...

All users that have access to FileitSuite are assigned to a certain role. The role that a user has determines the kinds of access privileges he or she has in FileitSuite.

Why roles you might ask?  Well, say you have an accounting, a legal, and a human resources department at your work place.  There are bound to be documents to should only be accessible to the accounting team, but not the legal team and vice versa.  In FileitSuite, this is made easy by the built in role management.

 A user can be set to belong to more than one group.  To make setup easier, FileitSuite comes with a few roles predefined. 

1. Administator - a user with this role has access to all menu items and actions in FileitSuite
2. Processor - a user with this role can view and process documents(add metadata, etc)
3. Advanced - a user with this role can view and upload documents, but is not able to process the documents.
4. User - this is the most basic role.  In this role, the user can only view the documents. 

One of the things we love to do here at Matrixwebs is to make the Suites easier to use.   Case in point - Distribusuite's Order Entry system. 

When we first built the program, it was done using the staid old way - web forms.  The page reloaded when new items were added into order and so on.  This worked fine, but we realized that when someone was entering more than 5 items, the reloading was just going to take up too much of their precious time.

So, we then introduced Ajax into Order Entry.  For those of you who don't know what Ajax is, it's simply a way to send request back and forth from the client end (your frontend program) to the backend (where your data is processed, saved, etc) and vice versa.  This removed the reloading of the pages in between adding items and made the process a lot faster.

Then, we sat back and breathed a sigh of relief. Not for too long though.  As curious individuals, we then started getting live feedback from users.  They liked what they saw and tried, but they wanted more.  This started the wheels to turn in our heads and we decided to make it even better. 

Be prepared to welcome the third iteration of Order Entry.  This one is much, much faster, provides more user feedback on each action and well, just more forgiving.  We're not in the last stages of finishing this iteration, it will soon be in your grasp anytime soon!