Take Control of your Website

Showit Sites is a very powerful and easy program to use. In order to acheive certain functionality such as dragging and dropping files, resizing and uploading images, and saving local previews, the application must have access to your file system and the Internet. This functionality is more than what a web browser provides, so Adobe is warning you of this before you install any AIR applications to make sure you trust the publisher before you install. Any desktop application you install such as Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Word or Showit Web has these same unrestricted rights, Adobe just wants to make it clear that you are installing a desktop application and not a browser plugin. We use a secure certificate to certify that the software was created by us, so as long as "Showitfast" appears as the publisher, you can be sure the application was built and tested by us.

Why does Showit Sites require Unrestricted Access to my computer?

Technical support is provided through our support ticket system.

Where do I go to get my other questions answered?

At this time we are limiting one domain name per subscription. However, with the use of "Deep Linking" explained above, you can create distinct sections of your site that could be linked from a start page on this single domain.

How many websites can I build with Showit Sites?

In non-geek terms, Adobe AIR is the framework that Showit Sites runs on. For more technical information, check out the Adobe AIR FAQ page on adobe.com.

What is Adobe AIR?

The Showit Sites website building software installs on top of Adobe AIR onto either a Mac OS 10.4 or later or a PC running XP, 2000 or Vista. For full system requirements check out Adobe AIR's system requirements.

What kind of computer is required to use Showit Sites?

It currently costs $39 a month for a webiste through Showit Sites with discounts for paying for a full year at a time. You have 30 days to try out the software but and preview the site online, but you won't be able to publish your site without the preview watermark to your own web address until you subscribe. This subscription covers all the costs of creating your site which is much cheaper than buying a template or hiring someone to build it for you. The service includes the powerful site building software, the "style groups" that provide a starting point for building your site, graphics, music, textures and other content, and the hosting of all your site content. This also includes all the continual feature updates that will come with the service as we grow and expand our offering to include much more cool functionality.

How much does it cost?

Showit Sites will provide email redirecting but not email hosting. This means that you can send and receive email through "yourname@yourdomain.com" but this would not be hosted by Showit Sites. Email is a commodity and there are many free services that do this much better than a web hosting company. We recommend you sign up for a Google Apps account and register your domain name and then we can redirect mail for your site to the Google Apps Gmail service which will allow you to send and receive email at your domain. Google offers over 6 gigs of email storage, reliability and backups, unlimited accounts, fantastic spam filtering, pop and imap access, and calenders all for free which should be suitable for most users. They also have a $50 a year business plan that offers support, more space, 99.9% uptime and other great features.

What about email?

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Showit Sites will provide optional tracking through Google Analytics which is a free service and one of the best services for tracking user behavior on your site. Once you sign up for an Analytics account and enter your info into Showit Sites, each page click and link to your site is tracked in Analytics so you can see exactly how people are using your site.

What about site statistics?

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When you add files to Showit Sites we automatically take care of all the hosting of these files. If you don't currently have a web host you can purchase a domain name like "www.yoursite.com" and our servers will host the site. If you already have a web host you can include your Showit Site by exporting a folder of HTML files from the software and uploading the files to your current host. Even though the content files would be coming from our servers, you would be able to view the site through your current web address. In addition, you can host other types of files such as documents or pdfs or whatever you want and link directly to these files. The hosting does not use FTP so all adding and removing of the files will happen directly through the site builder application. If you need additional web hosting functionality such as php scripts, you would need to host these through another web host as the Showit Sites architecture does not provide this functionality.

Do I need a web host?

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