There’s a quiet war being waged in the business world. Up til now you’ve been a casualty. Apple is taking aim at Adobe and you’ve been caught in the cross hairs as well. Here’s an update on how to automatically boost your online and mobile video exposure. And if you’re a premium member on QuanSite new media online marketing software, it’s 8-10x faster too! Here’s the scoop . . .

Apple’s iPhone anti-flash online video marketing assault

Apple has had Adobe software as a target since the release of the iPhone. And now with the release of the iPad the assault has reached a new level of damage.

You see, Apple definitively states that NO applications (apps) on the iPhone and iPad environment can use Adobe’s Flash software platform. That’s why, if you’ve ever tried to view most online video (including those on your QuanSite) on your iPhone, all you saw was a blue box where your video should be.

For most websites that use flash video, it means that their videos cannot be viewed on a hand-held device or smart phone.  The iPad revolution sweeping the globe will cause many business owners to miss the opportunity to connect with the new consumer who browses the internet with their iPad, iPhone or other mobile device.

Sure you could use a YouTube video embed on your site. But that comes with a host of big negatives for business owners like yourself. For example, you already know from the QuanSite base trainings and the Quaniversity Online Marketing Edge Program that using a YouTube embed provides a doorway for visitors to exit your site. Ads, including your competitors videos, will actually play on your site. Plus, a YouTube video player does NOTHING for your branding (and in most cases will actually damage your brand due to default player settings.)

But here’s the great news . . .

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We’re currently applying another patch to the system. It contains the following:

1) Addition of Add Link menu item under “System” (it was missing since the upgrade so there was no way to get to this page )

2) Addition of Add a user menu item under “System” for the same reason as above.

3) re-ordering of items under Bonus Materials on the admin dashboard.

4) Edit of 2 emails that had wrong sender name in email sent by the spam karma function

5) Removing “color scheme” option under profile section (because it was not an option that should have been made available ).

The patch name version is 4.0.1.5 if you don’t have this version number indicated in the footer of your QuanSite admin area, please open a help desk ticket.

We’re applying a patch to the system that fixes a few issues:

1) Fixes missing right-hand side widgets not appearing in the create a blog page section

2) Fixes an issue on the Social Bookmarking Robot settings page where if you checked an option, you couldn’t un-check it, it reverted back.

3) Change to default audio player default image

4) Fix missing pages in setup angel.

You’ll know if your site received this patch by looking in the footer of your QuanSite’s admin area, it should read: Quansite – Version: 4.0.1.0

We’re still working on fixing a few other minor issues, keep an eye out for another update soon.

We’re now applying another patch that addresses a number of technical issues. The below issues should be applied to your site within 4 hours of this post, if they’re not please open a help desk ticket.

1) Bug with the Mega Audio Blaster Module – custom preview images weren’t getting added to new audio files
2) Menu links to the Mega Audio Blaster Module returned a permission error
3) Some links under the “Design Center” menu were duplicated with the first set sending users to page that didn’t exist. This second set is removed so that menu is ok now.
4) Central Power Bookmark account function of the Social Bookmarking Robot is now fixed.

There’s only one issue currently remains on our post-upgrade bug list and we should have it fixed by this time tomorrow but if you find anymore, please share them through the help desk.

We’re currently applying a patch that fixes some issues that popped up today. The issues are:

1) The help videos disappeared from the help section after some configuration changes in the system, they’re back now.

2) Some of the functions in the right-hand side widgets on the create a blog post and blog pages area weren’t working, namely; add tags, edit visibility, edit status and edit publish time. These are fixed in the patch that is being applied now (they should be fixed on your site within 4 hours of this post, if they’re not, please open a help desk ticket).

Thanks again for your patience with these upgrade bugs

We’re already going on 4 days since the big upgrade that took place to everyone’s QuanSite and we’re pleased so far that only a handful of issue have been reported and most of them are fixed (details below) and the rest are being actively worked on now and should be fixed by the end of this week. Considering the size of this upgrade (the biggest we’ve experienced so far) the outcome is better than we could have hoped for. Hopefully everyone is enjoying their new QuanSite as much as we loved building it for you.

So here are the issues that have been fixed so far:

1) Issue with some RSS feeds on some sites being broken, this is fixed. If your feed is still broken however, please open a ticket and we’ll get it fixed.

2) Issue with an error being displayed either across the site or in the admin area, this got fixed also.

3) Bug with users, other than the “admin” user not being able to see the full menu or access parts of the admin dashboard. This is fixed in a patch that is being applied system-wide right now, it should be fixed on your site within 4 hours of this post. If it isn’t, please open a ticket to get it fixed.

4) Bug with the “Mega Audio Blaster” module not appearing in the create a blog post or page section. This is also fixed in the same patch that is being applied system-wide.

5) Bug accessing cPanel for about 1/10th of users. This is being fixed as I write this so you should be able to access cPanel using the regular url by the time you read this.

6) Issue with some custom headers disappearing on some sites (this was fixed immediately after it was discovered so not many people might have noticed it but if you did – it’s fixed.)

Remaining issues:
1) Some sites using the central accounts bookmark robot have not been bookmarking since the Quansite.com switch. This is top priority, we hope to have it fixed sometime tomorrow.
2) Some sites are experiencing issues uploading videos by using the Mega Video Blaster module that is included in the home page editor, we’re also hoping to have this fixed with the same patch that will fixed issue 1 above but if it’s not fixed in time, it’ll be included as a second patch afterward.

If you do notice any other issues, please report them through the help desk. Thanks to everyone who has reported issues and also a big thanks to everyone for their patience during this upgrade.

We’re currently applying a patch that addresses a few things. Please see the technical outline below for more details on this patch and other recent patches since the last update:

3.3.4.3 – Fix Division by Zero Tags error on some blog posts
3.3.4.7 – NMP – Video – increase video buffer to 5 seconds
3.3.4.8 – Fix skin issues for home page and external pages
3.3.4.9 – New Help Angel Version

We’re currently applying a patch that fixes 2 bugs in the blog pages for the New Media Pro – Audio section. The fix addresses the issue of the player and preview image not appearing on pages.

We are currently applying a patch to fix the Social Bookmarking Robot where some central account users couldn’t get registered.

We’re currently applying  a patch that addresses firstly an issue with the click and drag editor that a small number of users experienced when clicking on a custom html content block, the WYSIWYG editor didn’t appear. We finally tracked down the issue to a conflict with our software and unsupported language / region settings on affected users’ machines. We modified our code so that it’s non-dependent on these settings, thus making it universal. This should fix the issue for users experiencing this frustrating bug.

Secondly, we are also including a bug fix for users of the River Run skin where the site include “between each posts” didn’t appear.

3.3.3.9

3.3.3.8 – Fix In between posts site includes for River Run site skin
3.3.3.9 – Fix Language & region check for WYSIWYG editor included in
content box for click and drag editor (gave errors if unsupported
language and region was used on user’s machine)