New design.. again..

We have tested different designs the last few weeks, that's why the site may have look different at different visits. The one we feel is most easy navigated is the default and can now be found at http://www.freeshoutbox.net/

The control panel is also restructured into tabs to get an easier overview and space for expansion later.

There will probably be minor changes to the design soon, feel free to post your thoughts on the new designs and possible improvements..

Advertisements

We’ve seen some advertisements recently that has redirected users, we take this very seriously so now all new advertisements have to be double-blind approved by the staff at Direct Media before they are added to any eFree-pages (like your shoutboxes).

Sorry for the inconvience this might have caused.

New support forum + important info

Today we've moved the FreeShoutbox support forum from freeforums to our own eFreeForum.net platform, which uses the much better phpBB3 forum system. The new address is:
http://forum.efreeforum.net/

However there was no way to move the posts off to the new forum so we have to start over, however the old forum is still available at http://freeshoutbox.freeforums.org/ so the questions/feature requests are not lost. However for any new questions/feature requests please use the new forum.

New team members, new design

I would like to welcome Victor and Max to the eFree development-team, Victor just made a new design for the main-page at freeshoutbox.net hope you like it.

The design is not finished, the control-panel will be updated to reflect the new design in the near future.

eFreeBlog, and some more info about eFreeTools

I now have a blog hosting service called http://www.eFreeBlog.net/, it is based on the powerful software wordpress, go over there and register your blog =)

Also I've written a page about the eFreeTools network at http://www.efreetools.net/

The support forums is temporarily at http://freeshoutbox.freeforums.org/ during the restructuring.

eFreeTools and eFreeCounter

I've released a counter hosting service named eFreeCounter.net, feel free to go there and register yourself one (or more) counter(s) =)

I've also decided to use one trademark for freeshoutbox.net and the counter service which is now eFree, I plan to write a separate page about the network at http://www.eFreeTools.net/ later. They run under the trademark to be able to use the same support forum etc. in the future. Freeshoutbox.net is not changed in any ways because of this, your shoutbox will run as normal.

Stay tuned for more releases, and a support forum etc. for eFreeCounter..

Blogger shoutbox installation instructions

Here is a guide how you add a FreeShoutbox.net shoutbox to your Blogger blog.

1. Create a free shoutbox at http://www.freeshoutbox.net/
2. Login to blogger, go to "Manage layout" for your blog (it may also be called "Template" depending on which Blogger page you are at).
   
3. Press "Add a Page Element" shown in the sidebar layout.
4. In the page that pops up, select "HTML/Javascript".
5. At the next page, fill in "Shoutbox" or something similar as title and paste the HTML-code you get when logging in to freeshoutbox.net in the content field.
6. Save and check your blog, you'll probably have to edit the HTML-code and change the height and width parameters to fit your blog, I found that width 250 seems to be fine for this blog's sidebar.

I hope you find this useful, feel free to add any questions as comments to this blog post or in the support forum.