When I was in High School, I was a jock. For those who deal with me on a day-to-day basis, this may be quite difficult to believe, as I don’t necessarily look it. Regardless, I was a Varsity Letterman for much of my HS Career in 3 sports. One year, as part of the gearing up for an especially promising football season, we were given a new program to ‘beef us up’, so-to-speak. This new program was called Bigger, Faster, Stronger! It was a special high-speed, streamlined method to achieving great results in the weight room. It practically revolutionized how we viewed working out. In this business, we often refer to this type of change as a Paradigm shift. Not unlike that shift I experienced in HS, SAVO changed how we approach widgets and custom pages from the ground up. Prepare to be shifted, Savo-ites! With our new release, SAVO 10, our widgets, and custom pages in general are ‘Bigger, Faster, and much Stronger’!
What exactly is changing? First of all, one thing you’ll notice right out of the starting blocks is that things are happening faster! The movement through the custom page creation process is even more intuitive, and also has a new interface for adding widgets that uses familiar drag-n-drop methods, as well as new Java-based controls. Translation: Speed! We’ve also changed the ‘look’ of the editing screens on custom page creation/edit, adding many more user customizable options, such as tab show/hide, several direct links to the Edit function, and the ability to check comments, usage, or ratings from single links in several locations during the process.
Additionally, we’ve added many new little features that have been based upon our users’ feedback. For example, all widgets can now be minimized during the Edit phase, for easy movement and placement on the custom page. That’s just one example of how we’ve taken your suggestions and put them into practice: SAVO listens, responds, and then comes across with things that you can really use. Unlike solutions that look great, but don’t add incremental value, SAVO is committed to making each user’s experience one that will be remembered for its consistent speed, ease of use, and more importantly, relevance of content.
Experience the Bigger, Faster, Stronger SAVO starting with SAVO 10!
All things being equal: Custom is king.
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