Blog Beta successfully started

Wow, we're absolutely overwhelmed! So many of you signed up for the Blog Beta and are now busy building up their blogs. Your feedback is just awsome, thank you so much! We almost can't keep up with answering your mails and comments.. :)

We continue to work on the blog features and already finished the technology for the categories. Now, we're working on the surface so that you'll be able to use it...

Furthermore, we added the following features to our list:

• Post new blog articles to Technorati
• Add widgets of blog articles to del.icio.us, mr. wong, webnews etc.
• Teaser image: changing the size

We'll keep you in the loop - thank you so much for your support!

Spring and Fridel,

Jimdo Team

Jimdo Launches its closed beta blog feature

Our new blog tool is waiting in the wings. Starting now, we are launching a so-called closed beta phase, which allows a participating users to test the new functions. Within the next 4-6 weeks, we will install additional functions and (hopefully) encounter few mistakes. If everything goes well, as we anticipate, we will makes the features available to all members.

Jimdo's new blog tool enables you to simply and speedily write you own Blog. (If you're not sure what a blog is, check out the Wikipedia article). What is so special about Jimdo's blog feature is that you can be in charge of your own design: you can integrate all the elements that you use for your Jimdo-Page-wether it's text, photos, videos or widgets...

If you want to be one of the lucky testers and want to test the new blog functions in the beta phase, than act fast. We are handing out 200 test accounts on the quickiest Jimdo Users. Later, however, we will also make more test accounts available-so apply now for a test account!

Already have a blog and want to finally transfer it over to Jimdo so that you can finally have everything all in one place? That isn't a problem- you can import your current blog without losing any of the blogs in your archive. Read on to find out how it works.

We are first and foremost excited to hear what you all have to say about the new blog tool. Simply leave a comment on our new blog :-) We look forward to hearing your opinion. You can also ask any questions by sending an email to support@jimdo.com or using our forums.

All the Best,
Your Jimdo Team

Find new Jimdo friends and invite all your friends to Jimdo!

Would you like to find new friends at Jimdo? Or would you like to find out which friends are already Jimdo users? From today on it's very easy to find it out. Afterwards, you can easily invite those of your friends who are missing to Jimdo and so expand your network.

That's how it works

Search friends

You can also search for a single friend - just type in his or her E-Mail address or name. Then you can see whether he or she is on or not and add or invite him/her at once!

Have fun with your friends - find them and get connected :)

If you have any questions, please contact our Support Team and write them an E-Mail to support@jimdo.com.

All the best,

Your Jimdo Team

Big Update: you're now able to add your friends, send messages and follow the newsfeed of your friends

Dear Jimdo-Fans,

we have just released social features such as adding friends, sending messages and keeping track of friends’ newsfeeds within Jimdo. These features will hopefully help you a lot to make your Jimdo-Page a lot more interactive. You can see in the video down below how the new features work.

Since we launched Jimdo last year we had a clear vision of how the Jimdo-Page should develop. We wanted to enable you to create your own place on the net, a place where you can determine what you want to publish, what your page looks like, and who can access what information.
But it should also be a place where you could interact with your friends and family.

Up to know, you already had the possibility to create your own website. This release now is the first one that is going to make it way easier to communicate with your audience - you're able to connect as friends, send messages and even follow the updates of your friends pages via the newsfeed.

We hope that you'll enjoy the new features - what do you think of them?

Pages to the People,
your Jimdo-Team

The new Features

Quick Start.

1. Visit any existing Jimdo-Page i.e. jimdo-team.jimdo.com and click on "add as friend". Now go back to your Page, log in and check out the button "Friends" on the right side. If the person has accepted your friendship he or she will appear here. Make sure to try all new features under "Friends"!
2. Integrate the new Jimdo-Element into your Page. Just log into your Page, add the new Jimdo-Element and i.e. make your newsfeed public.
3. Search for new friends in the Pages-Directory.

How do you like the new features? We'd really appreciate your feedback in our forum or directly to support@jimdo.com. We're developing Jimdo to give you a first class product - and it's always good to know if we're on the right track.

But now, go ahead and add us as a friend: http://jimdo-team.jimdo.com! :)

Pages to the People,
your Jimdo-Team

How often was a PDF downloaded from your Page?

Did you ever want to know how often a certain PDF was downloaded on your Page? If you use Google Analytics for more detailed statistics on your Page it'll from today on also show you how often your downloads have been downloaded. See here for more information of how to integrate Google Analytics to your Page.
Best,

your Jimdo-Team

Jimdo launches Spanish version

Hard to believe, but it's true: the 7th language version of Jimdo is online! Recently, we launched an Italian and a Russian version, and now we continue with Spanish! As always, we're really excited what different pages will be created and
what feedback the Spanish version will get.

New Flash Gallery online

The brand-new Flash Picture Gallery is online and has packed some improvements that the visitors of your Jimdo Page (and you, of course) can enjoy! :)

First of all: Finally, it's there - the long expected full screen mode! In order to make the full screen mode possible, pictures will be saved from now on in a higher solution (for pros: 1024x768), which means: in a better quality. Furthermore, impatient viewers can click through the pictures with the arrow keys on their keyboard.

When editing the Flash Gallery you will not only note that the new technique abbreviates some waiting lines, but also that you'll find a little help section for the new picture gallery.

We would like to thank Jens Krause whose Slide Show is used for the Flash Gallery.

Now, we wish you a lot of fun with the new gallery!

Your Jimdo Team

...and here's a little preview of some of our photos:

New Google Maps Module online

Which places in the world have I seen? Where did I travel? Where do my best friends live? How can my guests get to my party? Or how do my visitors reach my company?

All these questions can be solved with the help of our new Google Maps Module! Just integrate the module as a new element, place your marks, define the type of your map, the control of the map and its size.

Furthermore, you're on the safe side using the Google Maps Module, because everyone knows that using card material can be quite delicate and being admonished is not uncommon. However, using the Module, you're on the safe side.

Happy Birthday Jimdo

Jimdo's Birthday present: A forum!

On February 19, Jimdo celebrated its first Birthday! As a present to you, our users, we finally launched a Jimdo forum "From Jimdo users for Jimdo users". At first, only the German version of the forum went online, but the English forum was launched last week as well. Now, users can exchange their experience in several categories, submit tutorials or arrange Jimdo user meetings.

Have fun!

Jimdo launches Russian and Italian version!

Today we are very pleased to announce that Jimdo is now available in two more languages: Russian and Italian! After successful versions in German, English, Chinese and French, we would like to offer users in the Italian- and Russian-speaking communities their own language versions.

New Year, new Layouts!

Dear friends of Jimdo. We recently integrated four new layouts now waiting to be tested by you! Just log into your Jimdo Page and chose "Layouts" under "Layout" and pick one of the new ones. Maybe it's time to give your Jimdo Page a new look...?

Have fun!

Your Jimdo Team

Happy New Year!

We wish you all a (bit delayed) happy new year and all the best to all of you in 2008! We hope that you have celebrated New Year's Eve with style and that you enjoyed the holidays! At Jimdo, we are still looking back on an eventfull, exciting and wonderful 2007: our excitement when Jimdo was launched in February, how happy we were when we got all of your great feedback or when you recommended Jimdo to your friends and family! We're looking back on how fast Jimdo grew in the last year, on the newly added features and developments of Jimdo. At that point we would really like to thank you so much for all your support - without you Jimdo would not have come so far!

In 2008, you can look forward to several surprises and improvements! If you have any suggestions or wishes, please do not hesitate to write us an email to: support@jimdo.com! Keep at it!

All the best,
Your Jimdo-Team

Merry Christmas

Just in time we'd like to wish you and your families a very Merry Christmas and all the best!

Enjoy the holidays and we'll be back very soon.

By the way, we're processing support questions from tomorrow on again, so you can be sure to get a quick answer to your questions.

All the best again,

your Jimdo-Team

Do something good - and talk about it!

Many people bring important organizations to life and do voluntary work every day. Often enough there is too little attention paid to their projects and work, and frequently relief projects are not supported enough because of a very low awareness level.

Who’s going to be the Startup of the year?

Who will be the Startup of the year 2007? That's what four major US blogs (TechCrunch, GigaOm, Read/WriteWeb and VentureBeat) want to find out. They are asking this of their readers and anyone else who is interested and who wants to take part in the decision. The deadline for making a nomination is December 12, 2007. Afterwards everybody is called on to vote. The Awards Ceremony will take place on Friday, January 18 in San Francisco.

P.S.: New Editor shows its colors :)

About two weeks ago we launched our new editor (see: "Further improvements"). Now we have another goodie for you, which many of you asked us for: You can now also define the color of your font directly in the editor!

Happy Holidays!

Some of us may be a bit startled taking a look at the calendar: There is less than one month until the major holidays! And every year the same question comes up: What can I get my friends and family this season?? It should, of course, be something personal, maybe not too expensive, but extraordinary and creative. So, why don't you give away a Jimdo-Page for Christmas this year? It can be created individually and e.g. filled with the favorite Christmas songs, recipes or pictures and videos of last years' Christmas. And, by the way, it's for free.

Those who are already really looking forward to Christmas or who want to give away a Jimdo-Page for Christmas, can now find a new special Christmas template under "special layouts". For your friends - or you... :)

Further Improvements

Last night we made the following improvements:
1. New editor for adding and editing texts.
2. New login-process

1. New editor for adding and editing texts.
We replaced the editor by a new one which loads way faster. The next time you'll add or edit a text you'll notice the significant speed improvement. So why not maybe add a new text to your Page?
A nice sideeffect (for pros): the XHTML-Code the new editor produces is way cleaner than the old one.

2. New login process.
When you'd like to logout out of your Jimdo-Page you now have the two options "View" and "Jimdo-Logout". If you choose "View" you're changing into the same view-mode the regular visitor of your Page sees. With a click on "Edit" you can easily change back into the "edit-mode" of your page without entering your password again.
If you click on "Jimdo-Logout" you competely log out of your Jimdo-Page.

Style your font!

It's finally online: our new font styling tool! It can give your Jimdo-Page a new look and it helps you to design your Page in a clearly arranged and well-structured way.

New Widget Module integrated

Videos, a music player or the current weather report – from now on, you can more easily integrate any kind of widget into your Jimdo Page. In order to include a new widget, all you have to do is add the new widget element, paste the corresponding source code – that's it!

Have fun trying out!

Jimdo works fine with Safari!

More good news: Jimdo works fine with Safari – since version 3 has been launched! Of course, you can still use the Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera, so that nobody has to do without their (favorite) standard browser.

Pages to the People!

Samwer Brothers invest in Jimdo

We're really happy to announce that the brothers Oliver, Marc and Alexander Samwer have invested in Jimdo (via their European Founders Fund).

The Samwer Brothers have already created successful brands like Jamba! and the German eBay clone Alando. In 2006, they established the European Founders Fund to invest in promising Internet companies.

The Samwer Brothers are our first large-scale investor. We are very happy that they're joining Jimdo. They just have such a widespread knowledge and experience that'll help us to grow Jimdo even faster. For you the investment of Jimdo will hopefully result in an even faster development of Jimdo!

Pages to the People!

New background images online!

Do you fancy something new? We just integrated 139 new background images that are now waiting for you to try them out.

What about one of these?:

Inserting a new background image is easy. When you edit your Jimdo-Page, you'll find them under "layout" > "background image". Pick your favorite image, submit the changes - that's it! :)

Jimdo now with Google Analytics

A Google Analytics tool is now available for integration into your website. Google Analytics generates detailed statistics, in addition to your Jimdo statistics, about visitors to your Jimdo-Page. You can, for example, find out where your visitors clicked from, how long they visited your website and which keywords they used to find you in search engines.

Jimdo is now in French, too!

Vive la France! After the successful launch of our German, English and Chinese versions of Jimdo, we are happy to announce our launch of a French version today! We hope that this is good news to the French-speaking Jimdo community :) and look forward to seeing more French Jimdo Pages!

Take a look at the French version here.
"Pages to the French" :)

To each their own – 5 new special templates online

We have five new templates you can use to beautify your page in a very special way – display your interest in your favorite topic from head to toe, if you want to… You can chose between one of the following "special templates": Horses, Flowers, Rock star, Surfing and Halloween!
The new templates look particularly good when you load up your own picture into the heading area. Just try it out and see…
Here's the way it goes: Chose "Special Layout" under "Layout" and pick one of the new templates. That's it – you can get started!

You can see some examples of what your page could look like, here:

Have fun trying out!

Your Jimdo team

Jimdo Users on stage!

Besides the new look of our website, something else has changed substantially: In order to present yourself best and in order to search for other Jimdo-pages, you'll find a new search feature on www.jimdo.com. Previously, you could only view the most popular Jimdo-Pages - and now we have added to and improved a search function so that you can search through all Jimdo-Pages based on: keywords, similar pages, most popular pages, newest pages, JimdoPro pages or random.

Big Development -- Integrate your own design into your Jimdo-Page!

Starting now, you can use your own design for your Jimdo-Page. That means that you can not only personalize the content, but also the appearance, of your Page. Cool, huh?

JimdoPro users get their own E-mail account!

Good news to all users of JimdoPro: At last, when you sign up for JimdoPro we can now offer you your own email account in addition to your own domain. That means you'll be able to use the email address name@username.com. This great new extra does not only offer you great benefits - it also provides some technical features.

• It supports both POP3 and IMAP
• Webmail access is through https://webmail.jimdo.com. Here you can set up additional features: Contacts, Calendar, Feed reader, etc.
• Out-of-office-reply (very useful while you're on vacation...)
• Substantial spam filtering and virus scanning

Of course, all existing JimdoPro users can install their own email account - just send an email to support@jimdo.com - we'll attend to this directly!

Extend your navigation with the third navigation level!

We're pleased to present a newly-added feature for your Jimdo-Page: the third navigation level. If you add this feature, visitors of your homepage can read through your Page via a more complex navigation bar.

Jimdo expands its reach to China

We're really excited to announce the official launch of our Chinese version

Jimdo has had a large number of Chinese-speaking users from the very beginning, but, unfortunately, they have had to rely on our English-language version. We are now really pleased to have eliminated this language barrier with our Chinese version. We think it is a really great move to make Jimdo available in China. It's the first step in our strategy to further internationalize Jimdo (Pages to the People ;)).

Jimdo account settings enhanced

Jimdo already enables you to edit important information, like your e-mail address, password, language, screenshot, tags and website description directly through your Jimdo Account. (You can also upgrade to Jimdo-Pro on this page.)

39 new background images for your layouts

Now we've added 39 really cool background images you can use for your Jimdo-Page.

Did you already try out the background images for your layout? It looked like this:

Here's a sample of the new ones:

Multiple password-protected areas!

New function: from now on it's possible to set up different password protected areas. That means you can give your friends different access rights than your parents. Cool, huh?

By the way, this is one of the many suggestions you made to improve Jimdo. Thank you very much for your support - it's really great!

Tag your Page!

The Popular pages section of our website, here, provides a short description of your Page so that potential visitors immediately know what your Page is about :-)

Now you can edit the description yourself. Just log into your site, click on "Jimdo Account" and "Description of your Jimdo-Page." Make sure to fill out "Tags / Keywords for your Jimdo-Page," too. We'll use them for a new feature appearing soon :-)

Welcome Facebook-Users!

Facebook, one of the largest social communities worldwide, just opened up their network to external services (great move!). Since we think that Jimdo is a perfect extension of the Facebook Profile page that every Facebook user has, we just designed a Jimdo application for Facebook. So, if you're a Facebook user who would like to share more information about yourself or something you're really into, you can now easily create your own Jimdo-Page - and a screenshot of your Page will be added to your Profile!
Oh, and of course all groups can create their own website, too! :-)

Update your Screenshot

As you've probably seen, we're listing the 500 most popular Jimdo-Pages, screenshots included, on our website, here. You now have the option to manually update your screenshot if your Page makes it onto the list.

So, if you change your Page layout or make other significant changes to your homepage, just log into your Jimdo-Page, click on "Jimdo Account" and "Screenshot of your Jimdo-Page." Your screenshot will automatically be updated. You can update your screenshot once every 24 hours.

Become part of our team and give Pages to the People!

A job here is probably just about the swiftiest position out there. :-) So, go here to see whether there's a vacant position that'd suit you. We look forward to having you on our team!

New statistic-tool

Good news: the new statistic feature is online! Now you can analyze how many people have visited your Page, where they came from, what search engines and terms they used, etc.!

JimdoPro-Users get slightly more detailled statistics - they get swifty graphs that display, sort and categorize everything they need to know about their Page - these stats are also downloadable as an Excel file!

Just a quick note concerning the differences between JimdoFree and JimdoPro. We try really hard to give away as many features in the Free version as possible. For example, we just raised the JimdoFree storage space to to 500 MB.

However, there are a couple of features that make a lot of sense for professional use. The detailed statistics are an example of this and that's why we only included them in the JimdoPro. Sound ok?

How do you like the new statistics? Looking forward to your feedback: support@jimdo.com

Upgrade to JimdoPro online

Finally, you can upgrade to the JimdoPro-Page online. So if you wish to use the JimdoPro-Page (features) you can now simply log into your own JimdoFree-Page, click on "Jimdo Account" on the right side and complete the four-step ordering process in minutes. It's of course really easy to upgrade. Looking forward to welcoming you as a JimdoPro user! :-)

Hardware defect on one of our US-servers

11:00 a.m. GMT

Unfortunately, we currently have a hardware defect on one of our US-servers. The harddisk is just being replaced and the data copied. No data is lost and your Jimdo-Pages should be up soon again. We'll post here again as soon as the problem is solved.

Sorry for the inconvenience this is causing! If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us at support@jimdo.com

UPDATE April 12, 1:25 a.m. GMT

Well, to tell you the truth, we think it can't get any worse. Our hosting partner has been trying all day to fix the hardware problem but they didn't manage, yet. It seems like the harddisk was not the only problem, now they are checking all the other elements.
It's only one of our US-servers but still the situation is very unsatisfying to say the least. We're really really sorry and we know that it's very inconvenient for you. As soon as the Pages are up again, we'll post it here right away. We'll also let you know about what exactly caused this downtime.
Again, we do have back ups and your Pages are not lost.
Thanks for your understanding!

UPDATE April 12, 10:32 a.m. GMT

The server is back up and all Pages are running smoothly again. We can't stress enough how sorry we are that your Pages have been down this long. We don't even know which part of the hardware was defect. After our hosting partner changed pretty much every element of the server and it still wasn't running stable they did give us a brand new one. This one seems to work fine now...
There was no data lost and all of your Pages are now back.

Happy Easter!

We just wanted to wish everybody a Happy Easter holiday! Here some flickr pictures tagged with "Easter." Enjoy!

Five new designs.

We've just integrated five new designs. You can see here how to apply one of the new designs to your Jimdo-Page.

And this is what they look like:

Jimdo now availabe for Opera 8 and above

Just a quick note: Jimdo now also works with Opera 8 and above. So, in addition to Firefox 1.5 and above and Internet Explorer 6 and above, you can now even use Opera 8 and above to create your own Jimdo-Page!

Pages to all the People in the world! Jimdo has just been launched internationally!

Pages to all the People in the world! Jimdo has just been launched internationally!
More big news: We just launched Jimdo internationally! Finally the English version is up and we can offer Jimdo to the entire English-speaking community. We have been looking forward to this moment and can't wait how you all like Jimdo! So after testing please make sure to leave your comment here.

500 MB in JimdoFree, 5 GB in JimdoPro!

Today we have majorly upgraded JimdoFree and JimdoPro. In the JimdoFree-Page there are now 500 MB included! And in the JimdoPro-Page you now have 5 GB! What an upgrade! It has been so cool watching what swifty pages you have created. That's why we are especially happy to give you even more possibililities with the upgrade. Click here for an overview of the integrated features in JimdoFree and JimdoPro.

Your Fanpage on the big stadium screen during halftime

The HSV is going to present two of your Fan pages during halftime of the match against Leverkusen on Sunday! Wow, that's cool! All you have to do edis send an e-mail to hsv-leinwand@jimdo.com. We will then randomly draw two of your pages...

Important: Due to the limited time, we can only consider e-mails that arrive by Friday, 12 o'clock! So go ahead and apply immediately. Good luck!

Pages to the Fans. Jimdo cooperates with the Hamburger Sportverein (HSV)!

The HSV is a major soccer club here in Germany. And we are really really proud to cooperate with the HSV and offer its fans the Jimdo-HSV-Fanpage!

What is the Fanpage? Well, basically it's a JimdoFree-Page with an official HSV layout. The HSV offered us the chance to integrate three official designs which the fans can use...of course all regular Jimdo users can use these designs, too. Just login to your Jimdo-Page click on "Layout" and then on "Cooperations" and you'll see the Fanpage designs. Please don't be surprised that you can't, for example, change the background color. Just imagine what a HSV-page would look like in the colors of the opposing teams. ;-)

These are the three official HSV designs:

Short review of the launch in Germany

We are overwhelmed! Before the launch we were so so much looking forward to this day, but we were of course also nervous. But what happened during the last days is just unbelievable. The ultimate best is your feedback. It is obviously so important to us that you like the way you can create your page! So thank you all for your tremendous feedback, it is motivating us even more!

In addition, it was just great to get that much positive press and cool blog posts. Click here for an overview.
What do you think of Jimdo? Looking forward to your comments!

New flickr element added.

flickr.com is a plattform where you can store, share and sort photos. We have just added a new element that is of special use for those of you who already have a flickr account. You can now directly integrate your photos from flickr into your Jimdo-Page (just like videos from YouTube). Thus, you don't have to upload your photos twice. If you don't have a flickr-account, don't worry, you of course can keep on using the integrated Jimdo galleries (which have even has more functions than the flickr gallery).

This is what a flickr-gallery looks like within your Jimdo-Page (here the most interesting flickr-photos from today):

New del.icio.us-element added.

Del.icio.us is a free, online bookmarking service (very useful!). With the new del.icio.us element you can easily integrate your (or others') del.icio.us bookmarks. Why does this make sense? Well, maybe you have a really cool hobby, like surfing around on Jimdo-Pages. Now every time you find a cool Jimdo-Page you can bookmark it at del.icio.us. And you can integrate the new del.icio.us element onto your own JimdoPage to show all of your Jimdo bookmarks. Every time you add a new Jimdo-Page to your bookmarks, it is also displayed on your Jimdo-Page. Cool, eh?

And this is what your bookmark links from del.icio.us look like on your Jimdo-Page:

Pages to the People. Offical Jimdo-launch in Germany.

Today is the official launch of Jimdo in Germany! We are very very happy to have reached this significant milestone. Now we are really excited to see how you - our new users - will be using Jimdo and what your feedback is like. After testing, please make sure to leave your comment here. Thanks for your support!

Welcome to the Jimdo-Blog

Welcome to our Blog! Jimdo is blogging. Right from the German launch on we'll be presenting new features, business developments and, of course, cool Jimdo-Pages! So make sure to subscribe to our feed or check this site regularly!