Hey all!

Our team recently rolled out some improvements that make Showit feel even more intuitive.

New: Resize the Mobile/Desktop Split View

You can now manually change the split between the mobile and desktop layouts which pairs well with our new Fit Width size option from our updated zoom controls.

Bonus🎉 The mobile and desktop layouts now auto-size to fit on your screen when you first open Showit so you can fully see your design on every screen size.

New: Gallery Images List Layouts

We heard some feedback about how our update made it really difficult to edit title and alt text. So we’ve switched the default view back to what it used to be displaying the image title, while also introducing a new larger view that makes it really easy to edit titles and alt text for all gallery images quickly.

What do you think of these updates? Do they help improve your design workflow?

Greetings, friends!,

We are back with another exciting edition of new Showit Features, from our Product Department to your screens. We have three new features we are pleased to announce.

TLTR Version:

• New Integrations (Meta Pixel & Google Tag Manager)
• Global Custom Code (for header, footer and css code)
• New Fit-to-Width Zoom Control

New Direct Integrations:

Meta Pixel and Google Tag Manager are now available as direct integrations for pages of your site. No more custom code! These are available along with the existing Google Analytics and BDOW integrations in Site Settings. We put them all together under Integrations, which was previously called Third Party. Why have a third party when you can integrate all the parties together in one massive super party? I think that is how that works.

Global Custom Code:

Remember how I talked about no more custom code above? I was kidding. You can still have custom code that can be applied across your site pages. Now you can easily add custom code to a Site Canvas Set. So even though you do not need custom code for Meta Pixel and Google Tag Manager, we have made it easier than ever. Is it a contradiction or serendipity? Maybe both. I suppose you could still use it for Pixel and Tags if you really wanted to, but you no longer have to.

Zoom Controls:

Finally we have Zoom Controls. We have defined preset zoom levels, along with a Fit to Width option! It is now easier than ever to layout your site exactly how you want, or test out different settings to find the perfect one. No word on how this relates to Professor Zoom, the Flash villain who dresses all in yellow. Honestly, that is kind of a pretentious name. What is he even a professor of? Going fast and fighting the Flash, I guess. Is there a governing body for that, or is it self appointed? Do you think he has tenure? I cannot imagine Professor Zoom having to present a research paper or anything of the sort. Which brings me to Doctor Doom. What did he even write his thesis on? Presumably something related to how much he hates the Fantastic Four, but are they really handing out doctorates for that type of research? Is there even research? Batman’s dad was a legitimate medical doctor, but he didn’t make people call him Doctor Batman’s Dad. Probably because he got shot and killed way before Bruce Wayne became Batman. Otherwise he might. Which really blows a hole in the secret identity thing.

We cannot wait for you to get creating with these fantastic new tools! Available now!

We’re always looking for ways to better serve you, and we know how important it is to get help when you need it. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that we’ve significantly expanded our support coverage during nights and weekends! 🎉

What does this mean for you?

You can now expect faster responses and more timely assistance when challenges arise outside of traditional working hours.

Whether you're burning the midnight oil or tackling weekend projects, we’re here to help! 🌟

Got a question? Reach out anytime—day or night!

We're excited to offer better support for our current Showit users who are making updates to their blog template designs. You'll now be able to preview your changes across your entire live site and blog.

This preview option will help give you better confidence for how Wordpress content will render based upon your design changes. Then once the preview looks good you can publish like normal.

A few details about this feature:

• It's only available once you have a blog on Showit's servers (after migration).
• You'll find the "Preview with My Blog Content" option on the upper right of the preview screen in the app
• The preview link will always open to your homepage because blog templates are not actual blog pages...so we default to your homepage.

Meta (the parent company of Facebook and Instagram) has announced the deprecation of the Instagram Basic Display API, which will officially end on December 4, 2024. This API is currently used by many websites and services to display Instagram feeds including Showit’s Social Grid widget. After this date, Instagram is enforcing new requirements to display an Instagram feed. Instagram is discontinuing support for displaying personal feeds.

Showit users with a Personal Instagram account will need to switch to a Business or Creator account in order to display your feed publicly on your website via the Social Grid widget. You can take steps to convert your personal account to a public Business or Creator account.

This change by Instagram will also require a reauthorization of the account to our Social Grid feature after we have completed API updates and we will announce when Showit user’s can take that action.

What this means for you:

Instagram will only authorize public professional accounts (Business or Creator) for display on the Showit Social Grid widget starting December 4th.

If you wish to continue using Showit’s Social Grid or any Instagram widget on your website it will require converting your account (if it is a personal account) to a public Business or Creator account by December 4th and reauthorizing with Showit.

Your Next Steps:

1. Ensure you have a public Professional account with Instagram (Business or Creator). Learn more about professional accounts here.
2. Go to the Showit Account and re-authorize the social grid app
3. Verify in the Showit Design App that your IG images are still populating

Our team has some updates that continue to refine the experience of using Showit that I’m sure you’ll all enjoy.

Custom Classes

You can now define custom classes on objects so that you can better target your own custom css code. This option is located under the Advanced properties settings for any selected object.

Updated Code Editor

We’ve updated our Code Editor screens for Custom HTML, Custom CSS, etc to now use a modern code editor display. If you’re ever working in those areas, you’re going to love it!

Multi-Select Edge Locking

It’s now a breeze to apply the same edge locking settings across multiple objects. You’ll find the setting in a new Position settings section that appears on the properties panel when you select multiple objects.

Multi-Select Layer Locking

You can lock multiple layers at the same time now with the keyboard shortcut CMD/CTRL-L

Scroll Zoom

You can now quickly zoom on the stage by using the keyboard shortcut of CMD/CTRL and SCROLL on your mouse.

Reposition the Stage

When you’re zoomed in on the stage you can quickly reposition the stage bye holding the SPACE key and DRAG your mouse.

Our team just updated the Showit app with a new integration for BDOW!, a powerful tool for pop-ups and email list building.

We've made it even easier to activate BDOW! on your Showit website. You'll find a new BDOW! option under your website's Site Settings > Third Party settings. Simply copy and paste your SiteID from BDOW! and then publish to activate the necessary BDOW! code across your website.

Read more in our help center.

Hi there,

A few months ago we announced the acquisition of Sumo: A tool that helps small businesses generate more leads and build their email list using intelligent forms and pop-ups.

Shortly after the announcement, the Sumo team retreated into their tech lair, working round-the-clock to update the tool.

We have 3 big updates (and we’re saving the best for last)...

FIRST—Sumo is now BDOW!

Pronounced buh–dow, always said in exclamation. Go ahead, say it out loud… BDOW!

If you said it right, you probably feel the urge to pump your arm 💪 or punch the air. 👊

Or you might feel tempted to leap into an ill-advised jump-kick like a bad guy from the 1960s Batman television series.

Totally normal.

That’s exactly the vibe we’re aiming for with this transition!

Wait! You hear that?

• More engagement on your website? BDOW!
• New lead hits your inbox? BDOW!
• That new opt-in drives yet another conversion? BDOW!

BDOW! = It’s the sound of conversion!

SECOND—there’s a new and improved app layout…

And it makes it that. much. easier. to unleash the power of BDOW! on your website…

• Design stunning, on-brand forms and pop-ups
• Trigger pop-ups based on visitor behavior (like exit intent, page views, referring website, and more!)
• A/B test forms to find the highest converting designs
• Create personalized discount code campaigns using our WooCommerce or Shopify integration
• Integrate with your favorite email marketing tools like Flodesk, ConvertKit, and ActiveCampaign

And THIRD—BDOW! now integrates with Showit!

I'm happy to announce our first integration between Showit and BDOW. Now activating BDOW! on your website is as simple as copying a SiteID over to your Site Settings in Showit and we'll activate the necessary code on your site pages.

And for a limited time you can save 50% on your first year of BDOW! (formerly Sumo)...​
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Just use the code SHOWIT50 when signing up…

Use the code SHOWIT50 for 50% off your first year (code expires July 31, 2024)

Join thousands of other small businesses using BDOW! to capture more leads from their websites.

Have questions? Email the BDOW! team ​here​.

Greetings, Showit community!

We return once again with an update sure to delight and amaze! We've made it faster for you to update your website by merging settings with common values across mobile and desktop. More settings throughout the app can now be merged or split between mobile and desktop!

Yes, now values that were the same between mobile and desktop are now automatically merged into one setting, with an option to split them between mobile and desktop if you so desire. This will speed up design workflows by allowing more common settings and updates to be shared across desktop and mobile. Gone is the tedious time updating both layouts for the same setting.

You’ll find the option to Split or Merge values from the ••• context menu to the right of a setting.

If you see mobile and desktop icon tabs above a setting then it's currently split between the layouts.

When you merge a value it will take the setting from the active layout: mobile or desktop. You’ll see that stated as “Merge Using Mobile” or “Merge Using Desktop” based upon which layout you have active.

The split option would have been a great utility in the 1986 science fiction horror movie, The Fly, in which Seth Brundle inadvertently combines his DNA with that of a housefly during a teleportation experiment. This ultimately leads to him becoming a human/fly monster and it being a David Cronenberg film they did not skimp on the body horror. I bet he wishes he had a split function following that wacky experiment. Also, the movie stars Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis, so you know it gets weird. It gets really weird. Brundle’s solution of teleporting himself with other humans to dilute the fly DNA was one approach, but split merge would have been way better.

Now it is available to all of you! No genetic hijinks required. You’re welcome! 😉

Read more here...

Showit, the flexible drag-and-drop website builder, is announcing their acquisition of Sumo, the popular WordPress and Shopify lead generation tool.

Sumo, developed by the team behind AppSumo, has long been a tool that online businesses rely on to generate leads from their website. Sumo makes it easy for businesses to collect email addresses and phone numbers by providing easy-to-use tools to create stunning, high-converting forms and pop-ups. Sumo integrates with many popular CRMs and email marketing platforms such as ConvertKit and MailChimp.

Davey Jones will serve as the CEO of Formilytics, the newly formed business that will manage the development of Sumo. The team plans to continue serving Sumo’s existing community and developing Sumo as its own tool to make it the most robust lead generation platform available today. The Formilytics team will also be working closely with Showit to create a tight integration between the platforms.

Showit has developed a reputation for being a website platform that enables users to create their dream website. Thousands of small businesses use Showit to power their website citing its intuitive design, creative flexibility, and customer support as key reasons they love the platform.

“Showit’s mission has always been to cultivate the creativity that exists in each person and our core product is a website platform that provides true creative freedom,” said Todd Watson, CEO and founder of Showit. “We also see the need for our community to create thriving businesses, and Sumo feels like such a great fit to allow sites built on Showit to have best-in-class lead generation tools that connect seamlessly to all the ways our customers run their businesses.”

More information about Showit and Sumo’s partnership will be released over the coming months. Be sure to follow Showit and Sumo on Instagram to catch all the updates!

For more information about Showit and Sumo, visit:

• SumoMe.com
• Showit.com

➡️✨ If you want try Sumo Pro, you can use the code SHOWITEERS for 50% off your subscription.

Have more questions?

What kinds of things can Sumo do?

Sumo makes it easy to create forms and pop-ups to turn website visitors into leads.

The form builder includes elements like radio groups, dropdowns, and checkboxes so you can get the exact information you need from a lead.

You can create intelligent pop-ups that appear exactly when you want. That includes...

• exit-intent: appears as a visitor goes to close out the tab/window.
• welcome mat: shows a full page pop-up immediately upon opening a page.
• sticky bar: stays stuck to the top or bottom of the page as the visitor scrolls.

There are additional targeting features based on variables like referral source and device. Not to mention the e-commerce features…

How can I learn more about Sumo?

Check out https://page.sumome.com. Need a form and pop-up solution for your website or your clients' websites?

There is a free version of the tool that you can get started with.

➡️✨ If you want to try Sumo Pro, you can use the code SHOWITEERS for 50% off your first year subscription. ✨⬅️

When will the Showit and Sumo integration be available?

You can use Sumo right now on Showit websites but we want to make sure we build the best possible integration. In order to do that, we have some foundational work to focus on first such as getting feedback from the Showit community. Please know that it is a priority for Sumo and we'll keep you updated as we make progress.

Learn how to use Sumo on a Showit website by following these steps...

Does Sumo work on other website platforms?

Yes, Sumo should work on any website platform where you're able to embed a snippet of code. Most importantly, it works on Showit websites ;) There is also a WordPress plugin.

The Shopify App is currently being rebuilt, but we hope it's available in the beginning of the New Year.

Learn how to integrate it with Showit here...

Does Sumo integrate with my email marketing platform?

Yes, Sumo offers integrations with popular email marketing platforms like MailChimp, ConverKit and many more.

Will Sumo continue to be its own product?

Yes, Sumo will continue to be developed as its own product; however, we are planning a tight integration with Showit.

Will the tool continue to be called Sumo?

No, we are working on rebranding the product. More details to come soon!

When can I start using Sumo?

Today! There’s a free version of the tool and a 30-day money back guarantee for those who subscribe to the ‘pro’ version.

Where can I follow along for Sumo updates and tutorials?

Check out Sumo’s ​Instagram​ and ​YouTube​ accounts to follow along.

➡️✨ If you want try Sumo Pro, you can use the code SHOWITEERS for 50% off your first year subscription. ✨⬅️

We're excited to share more details in the coming weeks! Have a question that wasn’t answered here?

Reach out to ​help@sumome.com with any questions.