Archive for June, 2007

Spring “Share your Favorite Children’s Activity” Contest

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

We wanted to congratulate the winners from our Spring “Share your Favorite Children’s Activity” contest!

$50 Gift Card to Target
Melissa D, FL

One Year Premium TotSites account
Joscelyn M, AL

Thank you to everyone who submitted your favorite activities. We will be starting our next contest shortly. Stay Tuned!

Brian

You might be asking “Where can I see the list of favorite activities?”. That is a great question but you will need to wait a bit longer!

Star Spangled

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

We’ve just completed a special design for our state-side members. A while back Brian hinted at a “Patriotic” design that had been requested by several families this spring. We couldn’t get it done in time for Memorial Day, but as promised, it’s ready for the Fourth of July! I hope our premium members will find this to be a classy way to deck their Tots out in Red, White and Blue. Use this one any time of year… but when the Fourth rolls around, make sure you turn on the fireworks!

Patriotic Baby Website Design

Check out the new Patriotic Design!

Max

Ordering Photo Prints

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

We are looking into adding a feature that would allow you and your family to order Photo Prints directly from your TotSite. Each time you upload photos to your site you would be given the option to upload a “print quality” version that could be used to order prints, stickers, mugs, tee-shirts and more directly from your site. You would also have the option to allow friends and family to order prints.

We are trying to determine how many of you would like this type of feature so we can plan accordingly. Please take a moment to vote in the poll below. Feel free to leave comments in the blog or email us directly at support@totsites.com .

 

If you had the option how often would you (or family) order Photo Prints directly from your TotSite?

  • Occasionally (49%)
  • All the time! (25%)
  • Rarely (16%)
  • Never (9%)

Total Votes: 244

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Thanks!

Brian

Brown… and Blue!

Monday, June 18th, 2007

The popularity of the new brown design has exceeded our expectations, but it wasn’t enough! Several proud parents of boys wrote in asking for an equivalent design with a slightly different color scheme. So we were happy to add an option to the Brown design which now allows you to select Pink OR Blue as your complementary color. Those little blue flowers sure are manly!

Max

Father’s Day / Golf Design

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Thank you to everyone who submitted their Father’s Day theme ideas. Golf was by far the most popular suggestion so we went with it. This design can be used with or without the Father’s Day graphic at the top. This way those of you who are avid golf fans (or have little ones that love to swing that club) can use the design all year long.

Brown Baby Website Design

Check out the new Father’s Day / Golf Design!

There might be a few minor design changes to this design over the next couple days.

If you would like to learn more about Father’s Day check out this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_day

Brian

Capturing Video from a DVD Camcorder onto a Computer

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

You were lucky enough to have a camcorder to record video footage of Junior’s first steps, first trip to the zoo and even his first chocolate cupcake. Now it’s time to share it with the world! But how? If your camcorder records to MiniDV tapes, connecting to a computer via Firewire and capturing the footage with a program such as Windows Movie Maker, Pinnacle Studio or Adobe Premiere is fairly straightforward. But what if you have a camcorder that records direct to DVD?

Luckily there is a solution. Here is a recent article we posted on Capturing Video from a DVD Camcorder onto a Computer. Hopefully this will help you share those precious moments with friends & family!

If you have requests or suggestions for future tutorials, please let us know!

What Can Brown…

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

We’ve just released another new design, and you’ll probably notice that this one’s a little different.

Brown Baby Website Design

Check out the new Brown Design!

This is the first “generic” design we’ve done in a while, and it comes in part due to a few requests we’ve had for a trendy brown/pink color scheme. We hope this appeals to those of you who aren’t looking for a specific “theme” all the time (or maybe just those who like chocolate).  More of these types of color/pattern-based designs may be published in the future to complement all of the themed designs we’re working on.

Keep those requests coming. We’re already working on potential Father’s Day and Patriotic/July 4th designs in response to your requests!

Max