"Site Plans" Are Becoming "Project Plans

From April 25th 2022, we will be renaming "site plans" to "project plans". In addition, you will be able to publish a project to multiple publishing destinations with a single project plan ($5/month).

So, What's Changed?

Previously, you needed to purchase a site plan for each publishing destination and export option. So, if your project was published on three different destinations, you'd pay $15/month (=$5*3) to remove Vev watermarks.

What will happen to my existing site plans?

Nothing — unless you have projects associated with multiple site plans. In this case, your next invoice will be adjusted accordingly. For example, if your project was published to three publishing destinations, your next monthly incurring cost would be $5, instead of $15.

Read more on how to add, remove, and tranfer your project plans here.

• Design Editor: Empty comments would be submitted when pressing "enter" on the emoji button; this now has been fixed.
• Content Editor: An issue where a canvas would stretch to the full width on the preview mode has now been fixed.
• Design Editor: The overlay of the scrollytelling video wouldn't cover the section fully as you scroll; this now has been fixed and works both on IOS and Android.

Our Dev team's bug sprint is in full swing and we have been squashing some of the pesky bugs in the platform. 💪

• Design Editor: For those who have encountered a crash after inserting a text entry upon creating a project; this issue has been fixed.
• Design Editor: Collapsed height on expandable section could not be lower than height on Desktop for some users; this issue has been fixed.
• Account Settings: Deleted profile pictures will no longer reappear after a while.
• Content Editor: Changing a video element will now immediately reflect without needing to reload.
• Onboarding: For those new users who were experiencing “failed to create publish settings”; this issue has now been fixed.
• Onboarding: Yikes! New users who are invited to an account will no longer be stuck with the "Create a project" page.
• Hosting: Project list with long URLs would cause the context menu to disappear to the right; this issue has been fixed.
• Publishing: Clicking a link in the standard menu would not work in published content if the page URL contains a “/” at the end of it; this issue has been fixed.

Page Search

You asked, we built it! You can now search pages in your projects by title on the top page bar. We hope it makes your life a little easier—it's certainly made managing our own site in Vev a breeze.

Pro tip: For optimal performance, we recommend having no more than 20 pages in one project. 🤠

Responsive Background Images

You didn't ask, but we did it anyways! Background images in sections will now load smaller sizes for each device type.

Smaller sizes mean faster response times, and faster response times mean a faster page load. On average, images account for more than 60% of the bytes required to load a web page, so this improvement is a big win for your SEO game.

Our CTO, Nicolay had this to say: "As far as we know, Vev is one of the few platforms supporting automatic responsive background images for all browsers." Let the record show our jaws have officially dropped. 😉

Since the last update, we have been working hard on new feature releases for y'all (no spoiler alert). 🤫 In the meantime, here are some fixes that we have achieved while cooking up some new features.

• One would lose the Teams overview until they go back to account/teams route; this now has been fixed.
• Project - Template: Card thumbnails did not reflect the cover photo as seen from Project, this now has been fixed.
• Integrations: If spaces are added before/after some settings on Integrations, they fail (Google Tag Manager). This now has been fixed.
• Account - Subscribe: Error occurred when users would try to subscribe; this now has been fixed.
• Main components (Beta): Adding a main component did not maintain the original dimensions; this now has been fixed.

Auto Layout Tutorials

Auto layout will help you build responsive components without having to adapt to every breakpoint or device. Instead, simply enable, add a few options, and watch as the responsiveness is taken care of for you.

Watch our new tutorials to see how to bring design elements like buttons cards, and grids to life with auto layout.

Product Templates

Thinking of launching a physical product but your Ecommerce platform feels limiting? Use our new templates to showcase the product itself, the specification and features, and highlight reviews from customers. After, embed directly into any platform or CMS. Now you can experience the ultimate design control you've been looking for.

Type tool enhancements

We've made some changes to the type tool. Now, you can add even more headings like H5 and H6 accessible through a dropdown under H4.
 
Design Editor

• You will no longer see an "infinite loader" when entering integrations. Welcome back to the "finite" world.
• Vev logo in top left corner is now linking to https://helpukrainewin.org/ 🇺🇦
• Sorry for those who have seen some random images and logos of "Stiftelsen Norsk Luftambulanse" popping up in your projects. You will no longer experience these glitches in your matrix 😉
• (Elements - Charts) Numerical values are now correctly displayed when copy & pasted from Google Sheets.
• (Elements - Number Counter) Some of you have not been able to use an animations add-on with the “Number counter” element. This now has been fixed.
• (Page Settings) You can now de-select between “Home/Landing page” and “Not found (404) page” under Page Settings.
• You can now copy & paste a marked URL (not JSON) from “Publishing destinations”.
• Some of you have experienced that previous stylings have been lost when copied & pasted a section between two projects; it ain't lost no more.

Code Editor

• Woop woop! We updated Monaco to the newest version. What’s changed? It now grays out variables that are not in use so that you can easily identify dead code 🧟.

Hosting

• Some users experienced that hosting settings would clear on FTP adapter when errors occur; this now has been fixed.

Ready to level up your collaboration game in Vev? Your cross-team workflows are about to get even more seamless with the multiplayer editing feature 💫

Here is what it means for you and your team:

• You can see your avatar as well as anyone who is currently accessing the project in the top toolbar.
• If you click on a person's avatar, you will enter an "observation mode", meaning you will be shown what's happening on their screen.
• Implementing 'undo (ctrl + z)' changes only pertains to the individual user's editing history and will not conflict with others.

Your feedback is incredibly valuable to us. If you run into any issues, or have any suggestions, please contact support in the platform. 😉

We've made room for some new effects and had a rather successful bug sprint this week, check it out for yourself 😉

From the new effects option in the Style Panel you will be able to add a:

• Drop shadow
• Inner shadow
• Blur
• Background blur

Read our docs for more info on the changes. 

You can now preview how templates will appear across different breakpoints before starting a new project.

Simply, create a new project and click 'Preview' on any template to check out what it will look like on desktop, tablet, and mobile.

If you want this feature for your own personal and account templates, just make sure to republish!

• Fixed the bug where elements were not disappearing in the layer panel when deleted
• Fixed the bug where inputting certain pixel sizing (such as 200 or 900) resulted in the incorrect container size
• Removing dark color in project color palette now works
• Google Hosting Brought Down Access to the Editor, full incident report here

Improved Text Editor

• Type tools such as (H1-H4, table, quote and numbered/bullet lists) have been moved to the top-bar of the editors. We found this creates an improved, frictionless UXI/UI experience.
• Copy/paste from Google Docs is improved to make your workflow smoother (Amen!)
• Tables have gotten easier to work with. Better table functionality and responsiveness are coming soon!

What's Next:

You tell us! We’re always working on improvements, but your opinion impacts our prioritization.

Check out our roadmap and vote for the features you’d like to see or submit your own request.

Platform Improvement

• Fixed a bug where fonts did not carry over when duplicating a project or copying and pasting a section
• Fixed a bug where in some cases the hosting dialog box did not show the full set of hosting options
• Fixed a bug with the lazy load where videos appearing in view on page load were not affected
• The parameter panels now stay in view and are cut off for all browser window sizes
• Text editor indenting is now consistent! No more weird quirks in rare cases
• Platform and content downtime, full incident report here
• Google Firebase Brought Down Access to the Platform, full incident report here