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’!
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Today we’re thrilled to release our next product update, the SAVO 10 Release. I can’t wait for our customers to see what we’ve been using internally for weeks now. The enhancements to the Custom Page, one of SAVO’s most popular features, will have a huge impact on their day to day use of the site.
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The primary deliverables of our user experience team here at Savo, as you might well imagine, are design specifications – documents that detail how a new feature will appear and behave. Since these documents are pretty much our raison d’être, we recently decided to examine and optimize how we create them. We had two main goals with this:
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Once again, thanks for joining me – Last time in my discussion of Custom Pages, I talked about how important the planning phase is in both Custom Page creation, as well as presentation. Custom pages are a great way to provide a wealth of content targeted around specific areas, including product lines, stages in the sales process, and competitors. The challenge is how do you provide a true launching point for success, not a choke point for informational gridlock!
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Greetings again, fellow Custom Pagers!

As you may recall, my last blog dealt with the explanation of what exactly Customization is, what it is best suited for, and ultimately, how SAVO gives you this option to fully express your Corporate or Personal ‘Graphic Vision’ when designing a Custom Page within our application.  But, as some of you may have already asked, ‘Where do we start?”  This is easily answered:  At the top!
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