We only picked up on this news, when Webuser posted their online review. It is a nice comparison of web builders, so if you haven’t signed up with SynthaSite and you are considering the different website builders that are out there, then have a look!

SynthaSite is upgrading a server component on Friday (20 June 2008) morning and need to take the SynthaSite Site Builder offline between 1am and 2am PST.  During this time, you will not be able to log in and make changes or updates to your sites.  Your published sites will be unaffected.

We sent out the June edition of our monthly newsletter, the SynthaSite Toolbox, today. It contains, links to our new video tutorials, new feature releases as well as great tips on how to use SynthaSite to it’s fullest potential! If you you didn’t receive it, you can view it here.

If you don’t want to miss out on the July edition or you forgot to opt-in when you signed up, you can login in and edit your communication preferences here. As always, we value your privacy and will not sell your email address, because we hate spam as much as you do!

We’ve been hearing this question recently from the SynthaSite community and thought that now was as good a time as any to answer it for you.

Without giving away all of the details of our business plan, we can tell you that you’ll start to see us work a variety of monetization strategies into the product over the next 12 months.

Some of them will be fairly straight forward, such as selling domain names to users who want them (e.g., www.yourwebsite.com). Others will be more novel, such as partnering with other companies to offer you special services, like search engine marketing, appointment scheduling, local advertising, etc.

These companies want you as a user of their services and will pay us for referring you to them. In addition, we are also planning on launching our own advertising network, that will allow our users to get paid for placing advertising on their websites from our advertisers - yes, you will be able to make money from your website!! We have a whole bunch of ideas like this, but these should give you a feel for where we’re going.

We have completed the scheduled maintenance and the SynthaSite services are back in working order. It took a little longer that initially anticipated - thank you for your patience.

As promised there was no downtime on the published (hosted) sites.

We are aware of a known issue which occurred as a result of the changes we made - image editing from within the Site Builder will currently not work. This is being worked on and we will let you know when it is resolved.

We’re beefing up our servers on Thursday (12 June 2008) morning and need to take SynthaSite offline between 1am and 4am PST as part of this upgrade.  During this time, you will not be able to make changes or updates to your sites.  But don’t worry, visitors to your published sites will not have any interruption and will still be able to see all the great stuff you’ve been publishing.

Thanks for your patience as we scale SynthaSite to meet the needs or our ever growing user community!