What's New

• New AI Site Builder
• Ability to generate new site from a prompt
• Automatic generation of site copy
• Automatic design of site colours and fonts
• Automatic selection of images

• Ability to switch between pages and to add new pages directly within the editor

• New options for page backgrounds, including image backgrounds, fixed option, repeating option and colour overlays

• New Author content type
• Ability to include the following page/post fields in variable layers: {Date}, {Author}, {Body} and {Heading}
• Ability to override a site status to "Unknown" e.g. if using a proxy such as Cloudflare
• Ability to exclude the current page from an index (using exclude=self)
• Support for variables within buttons

• Optimisation of all four categories of Google Lighthouse scores (Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices and SEO) - Details here

• Ability to create index sections using new dynamic variable layers
• Ability to include the following page/post fields in variable layers: {Name}, {Description}, {Tags}
• Sections with dynamic variable layers automatically size to the maximum height of a column
• {Tags} will automatically create links to dynamic filtered index pages (category style) for each tag

• Ability to save and reuse saved site swatches for all colors including fonts, backgrounds, icons and more

• New option for random indexes
• Performance improvements to form submission dashboards

• Usability improvement to inline styles release

• Ability to add hover states to layers
• Ability to specify the hover effect, duration, background, border and opacity
• Ability to preview the hover state within the editor

• Ability to add drop shadows to buttons, images and shapes
• Ability to specify the style, blur, spread and opacity of drop shadows
• New option/alt drag shortcut key to easily duplicate layers

• Ability to add borders to buttons, images and shapes
• Ability to specify border width and colour
• Ability to select from a range of border styles

• Ability to create site tags
• Ability to search sites by name or by tag or both
• Layouts now use latest draft version instead of published version

• Ability to set a hide/show section link to appear on hover instead of on click, enabling hover style menus
• Further automation of SSL validations to highlight detected DNS errors

• Ability to change the styles of parts of text within a paragraph or header layer (including colour, font family, font size and alignments)

• Ability to view the version history of a site
• Ability to view any past version of a site
• Ability to download the version history of a site
• Ability to set the live version of a site to a different version

• Ability to distribute layers horizontally and vertically within a selection
• Ability to align layers horizontally, vertically and to centre within a selection
• New toolbar and shortcut keys for alignment functions

• Ability to select multiple layers and apply properties to all layers at once such as colours, fonts, links, custom classes and more

• Ability to archive pages, layouts and posts
• Ability to restore archived pages
• Ability to set up 301 redirects from archived page URLs
• New Save and Publish button for easy Page URL updates
• New Save and Publish button for easy Site Variable updates
• Improved UX of the multi section delete feature to allow section visibility to be displayed

• Improved editor load time performance
• Ability to easily navigate to personal layouts from the editor
• Ability to refresh personal layouts without reloading the editor
• Ability to have unlimited personal layouts

• Improved performance of generating initial page load times after saving
• Ability for power editors to access the section explorer to update hidden sections

• Ability to duplicate slideshows
• Ability to save slideshows as layouts and copy slides to other pages

• Ability to easily delete multiple sections at once
• Ability to easily bulk select multiple sections using the shift shortcut key
• Ability to easily identify shared sections in the section explorer

• Upgrade of the editor skin including new icon set
• Permanent quick link within the editor to view the draft or live site
• Support for site variables within form notification email addresses

• Ability to create dynamic links from site varibles for external urls, email addresses, phone numbers and sms
• Ability to rename layers to custom names for easy layer identification

• Page Name and URL displayed in forms submission notifications and dashboard
• Support for brackets in site variables
• Support for advanced custom code in site duplication

• Ability to specify a full window height for a side nav

• New side nav section type
• Ability to create left and right side nav menus
• Ability to hide and show side navs via hide/show section links

• Support for up to five items per index section

• Ability to automatically optimise your images for maximum page load time and SEO performance
• Images are converted to the WEBP format at the ideal dimensions for both retina and non-retina devices
• Pages will fall back to the non-WEBP format on any devices/browsers that do not support WEBP
• New lazy loading of images

• Ability to filter custom fonts by category (sans serif, serif, display, handwriting, monospace)

• Ability to easily add your own video backgrounds to sections

• Ability to easily add your own custom Google fonts under site settings

• Fonts libraries now dynamic to only include fonts used on each page, improving page load performance

• Forms upgraded to reCAPTCHA V3, providing automatic bot detection without needing the reCAPTCHA field
• New option to start an Agency 14 day free trial including white labelling

• New label field type within forms

• Support for up to four items per index section

• Ability to add and update page tags under page settings

• Ability to resize multiple layers at once using the w/h dimensions

• Ability to position multiple layers at once using the x/y coordinates

• Ability to add custom classes to sections

• New drop down field type
• New multiple choice field type
• Ability to set the field focus colour of form fields

• Ability to archive and delete form submissions

• Ability to add IP addresses to exclude from analytics reports

• Increased filtering of bot and crawler traffic from analytics

• Ability to chose desktop first or mobile first design order
• Mobile by default automatically syncs to the desktop design for blank canvas sites

• Ability to disable layouts e.g. desktop and mobile only (no tablet layout)

• New shortcut keys to move layers to the top, bottom, left and right of a section
• New shortcut keys to horizontally and vertically centre layers within a section

• Ability to schedule automatic weekly/monthly analytics email reports

• Ability to send weekly/monthly analytics email reports
• Ability to white label analytics emails

• View the trends of all websites in a single view showing total views and form submissions by month

• View the status of all websites in a single view along with total views/form submissions of each site

• Ability to sort the sites dashboard alphabetically or by date created

• Ability to setup 301 redirects from old page urls to pages

• Ability to create section backgrounds with two colours
• Ability to configure an angle degree on section backgrounds with two colours
• Ability to configure a position on section backgrounds with two colours

• Ability to make additional multi layer selections by holding shift

• Snapping of layers for easy alignments
• New select box for easily selecting multiple layers
• Ability to resize multiple layers in proportion
• Ability to save grid, snapping and ruler settings

• Ability for Power Editor role to access analytics and form submissions

• Ability to sort and search form submissions
• Ability to download form submissions in XLS, CSV and PDF format
• Ability to print form submissions
• Ability to copy form submissions

• New file upload field type for forms
• Ability to view form submissions online
• Ability to access uploaded files online

• Ability to enable a parallax effect on section background images

• Ability to redirect the user to a web page after submitting a form

• Form auto-response emails
• Form auto-response messages on submit
• Ability to control the form button states
• Ability to control the form input background colours
• Ability to update the text for form name and email fields
• Improved undo/redo functionality
• Ability to re-order slides within slideshows

• New fade transition type
• Ability to control the time between slides
• Ability to control the transition speed
• 15 new slideshow arrow styles
• Ability to update arrow colours and opacity
• Ability to turn off slideshow arrows

• Support for galleries within accordion sections

• Ability to reorder gallery images

• Improved layout switching performance

• Ability to add reCAPTCHA fields to forms

• New site settings design with tabs
• Ability to reorder pages, posts and layouts
• Ability to delete shared sections from all pages
• Ability to configure white label styles

• New "Power Editor" role for more advanced editor access

• New "Editor" role for content only editing with locked down design

• Added canonical urls for higher SEO rankings

• Auto generated sitemaps for webmaster tools

• Improved site performance for faster page load times and higher SEO rankings

• Improved filtering of bot traffic from site analytics

• Ability to hide a slideshow and for a slideshow slide link to auto expand the slideshow on click

• New icon library
• Increased editor performance

• Ability to hide/show a slideshow section

• Auto generated RSS feeds via /rss_feed url

• Ability to easily switch between sites in the analytics view

• Ability to overlay colour shades on top of background images

• Improve copy and paste from other sources such as Word

• Three new cafe starting points
• Three new non-profit starting points

• Ability to configure whether a domain has a www subdomain

• New thumbnail gallery type

• Ability to auto scroll an expanding section menu to top on click

• New preview mode with easy switching between views
• Editor usability improvements

• Ability to add custom code immediately after an opening <body> or before a closing </body> tag
  (useful for certain 3rd party analytics tools)
• Inline saving of all site and page setting fields for faster productivity

• Performance improvements in site loading times

• New fixed width section background option

• Performance improvements in dashboard loading times
• Performance improvements in image loading times
• Performance improvements in editor loading times

• New lightbox section type
• New link type to hide and show lightbox

• Filter search engine crawler traffic from analytics

• View unique visitors
• View visits by page
• View visits by browser type
• View visits by device type
• View most popular pages

• New form layer type
• Create form fields
• Create form notifications
• Style forms

• Control aspect ratio settings on layers
• Auto calculate image dimensions based on aspect ratio setting

• Support for transparent backgrounds on galleries

• New "Layout" page type that dynamically syncs to layouts within the editor for private layouts

• Create tags on pages and posts
• Create automatic page and post indexes
• Filter indexes by tags

• Easily set h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6 tags

• Categorise pages into pages vs posts
• Create dynamic previous and next post buttons

• Easily add links to email addresses, phone numbers and SMS messages
• Configure fixed headers as either standard or floating over the next section

• New infinite scrolling slideshow type for scrolling banners
• Ability to turn off auto-play for slideshows

• SSL (HTTPS) now standard across all Pixel Together premium plans

• Gallery extensions to allow captions to be set, styled and displayed on images

• Significant improvements to the speed of the editor for both designing and entering text

• Password protect entire sites
• Password protect individual pages
• Add custom code to the <head> tag of individual pages

• New Pixel Together Enterprise plans
• White labelling
• Duplicate site feature
• Private layouts and sites
• Advanced user permissions
• Centralised billing
• Hosted within your region

• All Pixel Together sites are now served from multiple high performance Content Delivery Network locations across the globe for fast site load speeds

• New animation effects - spin, pulse and back/fowards
• Support for multiple fixed sections for multi level menus

• Branded password protected sites
• HTTPS (SSL) websites
• Support for advanced analytics tools
• Site variables

• Section opacity
• Control page background colour
• Edit page name and description directly within the editor

• Add Alt tag descriptions to images for SEO
• Add custom classes to layers to allow for custom (advanced) styles

• Upload documents and other downloadable files via new "Document" link type
• Enable new document download link on any button, image or shape overlay

• Drag and drop image gallery widget, complete with full screen mode and zoom

• e-Commerce release through integration with Snipcart
• On any premium plan any button can now be easily configured to sell products online

• Self-serve site exports to clean html/css code
• Add custom code to a site <head> tag
• Fixed header menus
• Collapsible sections (e.g. for hamburger style mobile menus)

• New layer properties panel
• Auto-expand section option for layers for easy content editing
• Circle opacity

• Animation
• Smart links
• W3C compliant production code
• Text padding
• Corner radius
• Image opacity

• Line shape
• Image links
• Section links
• Smooth section scrolling
• Google analytics
• Online help

• Slide Show sections
• HTML code widget
• Duplicate page feature

Starting points are now available!

Other features:

• New drag and drop interface
• Circle shape
• Duplicate section feature
• Copy in section styles from other layouts
• Improved publishing control

• Rectangle feature
• Code snippet feature
• Hyperlinks for text
• Shared sections across pages (e.g. for menus / footers)

• Ability to add other designers and viewers (clients) to your projects (via site settings)
• Ability to add multiple custom domains to a site
• Inline bold / italics / underline / lists for text

• Added ability to copy full styles between responsive layouts
• Added ability to preview designs inline
• Added more shortcut keys for faster design
• Added copy / paste
• Improved editor performance

• Added subdomains so you can share your sites once published (set your domain up under site settings)
• Added versions page so you can see a full history of your designs online
• Enhanced the online page editor

• Upgraded site and page management screens
• Added font selection
• Added font styling details such as size, line spacing and tracking
• Refinement to editor zoom tool
• Dragging layers now display only height & width if resizing or position if moving the layer
• Added and refined editor keyboard shortcuts
• Implemented automated testing suite
• Added Suggestions & Feedback page

• Added font colour and sizing
• Added colour picker
• Adjustment to the rulers
• Added selected shortcut keys

Minor release updates with refinements to the responsive editor

• Ability to add sections
• Ability to add images
• Ability to add background colours & images to sections
• Improved grid and added rulers to the editor
• Upgraded editor look and feel
• Ability to edit desktop, tablet or mobile layouts
• Upgraded look and feel of login and sign up pages

• Add text tool
• Drag and drop text within the editor
• Add sections

• Developed front-end base canvas for the editor
• Developed back-end service architecture
• Developed database schema

• Designed full stack architecture for design in the browser
• Designed database schema for flexibility and scale

The idea of Pixel Together was hatched and we began by protoyping early concepts.

• Prototyped concept of sections
• Prototyped drag & drop reordering of sections
• Explored multiple technology stacks and found many fell short on performance in the browser