Clan Site Manager

As of January 21st we have re-launched the option for a free ad supported CSM website, all website trials have been converted to free ad supported websites.

As many of you are aware we eliminated the free website option last year due to problems with offering free websites and everything we were trying to include with them in additional to cash flow issues because advertisements on websites would not support our operational demands.

Anyone can create a free ad supported website with some changes from when we used to offer free websites as a norm.

Some of the new limitations on the free sites will include;

• Limitations on the number of pages, and page elements.
• 2 Total Ads per page plus site sponsors
• New footer website bar on all free websites will feature an 1 advertisement of our 2 page advertisements and a new noticeable and easy to use "report this site" option so we can be notified when people seek to use our sites for abuse, along with other help full tools designed for site visitor usage.
• Free websites will be deleted regularly if there is no user logins in a 30 day period. (1 Email notice will be sent before site deletion takes place.)
• Free sites will run separate from people that upgrade thus maintaining page load times and site speed for our paying customers.
• No support will be included for free accounts other then members helping members in our public forums, full support by our team will be reserved for pay customers via phone, support tickets and live chat.

With the free ad-supported plan we rely on a site bringing a great deal of traffic to pay for the hosting expense of keeping the site online. For this reason we have strict deletion criteria; so that if a free website drops in visits and logins over any given month it will be purged from the system. With our paid plans this is not the case and you never have to worry about your site and content being deleted.

Everything has to be paid for in some way. The way that we pay for the free sites to be hosted is through advertising and advertising requires lots of eyeballs.  Don't want ads on your site? Get one of the paid plans.

These new limitations help us avoid our past pitfalls with offering free before, but we really depend on people upgrading to our premium services to maintain the level of quality and value we have always offered to our customers.

By making this change will allows us to still offer a great value to those that will not or can not pay for a website while giving additional value to those that wish to upgrade.

We have a number of webinars planned for the coming weeks. A webinar is a virtual seminar, thus allowing us to have live tutorials online and respond to questions asked by you our attendee.

Our webinars are part of our commitment to you and helping you grow with us. We have a range of topics that you can sign up for. Please reserve your seat early because there is limited space per webinar.

If you are serious about your website you should really attend, our webinars are great for beginners to advanced users. Anyone can register, tell a friend!

Theme Design (Thu, Oct 30, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EDT)

Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/570558228

How to Build a Website (Sat, Nov 1, 2008 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM EDT)

Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/166681149

How to Build a Website (Wed, Nov 5, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST)

Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/458391142

Website Do's and Don'ts (Wed, Nov 12, 2008 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM EST)

Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/659196349

Building a Ecommerce Website (Thu, Nov 20, 2008 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST)

Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/508322267

Building a successful Ad Supported Website (Wed, Nov 12, 2008 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST)

Registration Web Link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/766406805

Click on the registration link for the webinar you would like to attend. You are free to signup for as many as you want, and webinars are free for you to attend.

Check this area often for news and updates about your website.

• Powerful member profile searching.
• Full User Page styling options.
• Other ways to find members.

If you have styled your User Page on SpruzMe the style will carry over to all the sites you view your profile in.

So, have fun and start spruzing.

We are sorry to say there was only 2 qualified winners in our contest. Contest requirement was 50 votes minimum and only 2 sites achieved this. We were disappointed so many people submitted sites using CSM built in Themes. We do have plans for more contests in the future and will use the information we received from this contest to make it better and to help capture more users that have graphic talents.

Now for the winners both of our finishers will receive a check and a free CSM pro upgrade to the site of their choice for 6 months!

our 2nd Place Winner is (Drum Roll Please)

Paroxysm Theme Site Created by Helios
He will received a check for $250 and we will use his theme as a Free CSM template.

Our first place winner with the highest over all rating on 60 votes is

Counter-Strike Fusion Theme Site Created by CS-Fusion
He will received a check for $500 and we will use his theme as a Free CSM template.

The winners will be contacted on prize claim details. They will also have an opportunity to work closely with our Development team to help them offer CSM users help with designing themes, templates and graphics for use with CSM powered sites.

Here's a little taste of what's to come (tomorrow!):

• Fully updated roster system - Yes we did hear you!
• A little something called Site Modifiers - A brand new idea that will make you all tingly inside, more details tomorrow!
• Updates to the gallery system that will have your site members screaming with girlish delight...

There's much more that I cant wait to tell you, but for now its time for us to just wait with anticipation for a powerful shockwave of improvements and features that, if you're not careful, may very well knock you off your feet.

We have also added the option for you to subscribe to RSS feeds from anywhere so that they show up on your home page. With this new component you can literally pull information in real-time from most news sites, this allows you to have updated content on your home page that interests your viewers/members and keeps them coming back for more!