Do you or someone you know have a SynthaSite website that has what it takes to be the Best of SynthaSite? Does the website have a focused purpose, visual appeal, and/or innovative use of widgets?

We’d LOVE to hear about it! To nominate a website, fill out and submit our nomination form by November 30, 2008.

All nominations will be reviewed by a SynthaSite panel, who will select the finalists. The finalists will be posted online and the winner will be determined by public voting.

Come December, we’ll post links to the finalist sites and have YOU will vote for the winner!

Besides fame and bragging rights, the winner will also get:

• $1000
• SEO lesson, performed by SynthaSite CEO and SEO Expert Vinny Lingham,
• Be featured in a SynthaSite press release, on the SynthaSite company site, in the SynthaSite newsletter and posted to Vinny’s blog, and
• Be able to post a “Best SynthaSite” logo on your Web site(s)

For full competition details, please visit bestof.synthasite.com

Don’t wait, enter today!

SynthaSite has won the Industry Standard 100 award in the Community & Social category, beating companies like Delicious and Meebo.

Thank you to everyone for their votes!

We’re back up and have a very full and exciting release for you: Blogging, domain registration and shopping cart widgets!  Check out the details below:

1.) Blogging

The new blogging feature allows you to post online journal entries, text, images and share it with the world within minutes.

Features include:

• Instantly create a blog post that is dated, categorized, includes tags and author details
• Blog manager to search and access all your posts within a few simple clicks
• RSS syndication
• Commenting
• Create multiple blogs under one site

To add a blog to your existing site, simply click on the “New Page” button. To create a new blog, click on “Create a New Site”.

2.) Domain Registration

Buy an available domain (www.yourdomain.com) with a few simple clicks!  Take the hassle out of configuring your new domain by buying it through us.

You’ll see this option when you first publish your new site.  If your site’s already been published, you can use this feature by unpublishing your site first and then republishing.

3.) Shopping cart widgets

We’ve integrated with PayPal and now you can:

• Sell anything on your website and securely collect payments from your visitors via PayPal
• Accept credit card and bank account donations from a button on your website

To add any of our new Paypal widgets, click on “Online Store” in the content sidebar in the site builder on the right hand side of your screen.

Try these features out and tell us what you think!

We’re releasing a bunch of new features today and the update is taking a bit longer than we expected.  We’ve had so many new users join us over the past couple of months that its taking a while to update everything.

In the meantime, your published sites are available and we expect to have the site builder available for login soon.  Thanks for your patience.  You’ll love the new features we’re releasing.

Voting closes tomorrow for the Industry Standard Innovation 100 Awards.  We’re proud to be a finalist and really want to win it all!  Voting closes this Friday, October 3rd and we need your vote!  Please visit: http://www.thestandard.com/awards/tis100/categories — click on the “community” category and vote for SynthaSite.

We’re excited to announce that our own Vinny Lingham (founder and CEO of SynthaSite) is in the running as a finalist for ITWeb’s IT Personality of the Year 2008 Awards. He is up against CEO’s and founders of top IT companies in South Africa such as Datacentrix, BSG and T-systems.  The competition is tough and he needs your vote.

Voting closes on Sunday, Oct 5th so vote now at: http://www.itweb.co.za/events/itpersonalityoftheyear/2008/