What's new in Makeswift
Updated on March 30, 2022
New features
Redirects
You can now create redirect rules to forward visitors from one URL to a different URL. This will allow you to prevent visitors from experiencing any offline pages, making sure they only see live URLs.
Redirect rules can be managed in the “Redirect” tab found in site settings. Learn more about creating redirects.
Sitemaps
A sitemap XML file is now auto-generated for every site built in Makeswift. You can view your sitemap via a link in your site settings and provide the URL to search engines to ensure they can find and crawl your site. Learn more about sitemaps in Makeswift.
SEO Settings
We’ve also added panels in our newly designed page setting sidebar to give you more fine-tuned control. Click the “SEO” tab to access the following:
- Exclude page from search engines
- Canonical URL
- Sitemap priority
- Sitemap frequency
Improvements
- We’ve increased the mobile breakpoint to include any device width below 576px. This should provide a better website experience for visitors on larger phones, or viewing sites in a landscape orientation.
- The mobile mode canvas in the builder is now 375px, better representing average mobile device widths.
- We’ve introduced tabs for the page settings sidebar to better group similar panels.
- We now remember the last tab visited in the page settings sidebar, and select that tab by default when navigating between pages.
Fixes
- Fixed a hard-coded email address in the profile settings to now actually display the currently logged-in user’s email address.
- The navigation component now includes the gap value between the logo and navigation links.
- Fixed an issue where selected site templates were only copying over 10 files per folder.
- Fixed an animation bug seen when switching between tabs in the page settings sidebar.
Previous updates
Feb 1, 2021
No more copying a single edit you made to your navigation and tediously pasting it on every page on your site. You can now save navbars, footers…
Dec 7, 2021
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AUG 16, 2021
Over the past few months we've been working on a big release that we're excited to finally unveil. All Makeswift sites are now powered by our brand…
Mar 12, 2021
We've just released more improvements to the page builder in an ongoing mission to give our users the fastest and smoothest experience while…
Nov 30, 2020
We've been designing version 2 of Makeswift with some of our early customers for a few months now, and are excited to release the first…
Oct 13, 2020
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Sep 29, 2020
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Sep 14, 2020
As we've been observing new users learn Makeswift, we've realized that alternating the spacing handles as you move your mouse in and out of…
Aug 26, 2020
We've added enhancements to live collaboration that will now show you exactly which elements a teammate is hovering over, as well as what…
Aug 10, 2020
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Jun 11, 2020
Makeswift is built for teams. Now you and your teammates can work on the same page simultaneously. As you make edits to a page, your team…
May 5, 2020
Previously, it was difficult to make sure all boxes were equal in height when creating multi-column rows. With nothing more than your naked eye…
Apr 21, 2020
When creating a new page, you'll now be able to select from a library of beautiful, responsive page templates. Each template was built inside…
Apr 2, 2020
While using our product over the last many months, we've realized that it takes too many clicks to navigate around Makeswift. For example, it took…
Mar 25, 2020
While in content mode, you can now edit existing text links instead of having to unlink them first. You can also add adjacent text to an existing link…
Mar 12, 2020
You can now view and download invoices from your Makeswift account. We also added a section in billing overview allowing you to add tax IDs to your…
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