New Look and New Features on Graceful Tools

We are excited about our new look for graceful tools and our new features.

1) Easier login and logout for all our graceful tools. This means that you don't need a separate login or to separately logout to access your surveys, loans, or any of the meetingstarter tools (appointments, events, and meetings).

2) We have added automatic discount codes to the our events tool and reorganized the edit pages of the events tool. We think this will be helpful for those of us who frequently run conferences and events.

3) We have create column summaries in surveys that we think are pretty helpful. It is now much easier to view a count of how many people answered the same way on a multiple choice question or the sum or average in a column.

4) In page editing of details of event and appointment registrants and post registration editible fields. This is great when you need to assign registrants to housing, cars, small groups etc... after they are registered.

6) We have increased our browser support and testing to include Safari (previously we only tested in IE6, IE7, and Firefox 2).

7) Notification in surveys. You can now choose to have survey managers and viewer notified upon completion of a survey.

8) Cleaner links... our links now end with simply the id. i.e. www.gracefultools.com/appointments/1141.

9) We are offering summer jobs and are now using our own surveys for our feedback. So give us some feedback!

Warmly,
Jon

Update to surveys and more bug fixes

Over the past week we have done a number of incremental improvements to our tools. There have been a few noteworthy additions...

1) We have posted a Frequently Asked Questions Page. We will continue to update this page with information that you might find helpful.

2) We have posted a jobs page. Yes we are hiring! We are excited to expand our team to help our tools continue to improve and to help serve people more effectively with our tools.

3) Some love given to surveys. We have recently given some more love to our survey tool (it hasn't received as much attention as our other tools but it seems many of you are still finding it useful. We have added a few additional question types including a Date field that has nifty popup calendar to help people choose dates. We now allow you the ability to choose how to display the question/response fields (either horizontal or vertical). We also make it incredibly easy to change the order of the questions. Just drag them into the order you like. More than anything some bugs that had been annoying us (and I am sure some of you) have been fixed. We have made it possible to receive email notifications when people respond to your survey as well as made it possible to customize your response message.

4) We continue to invite your feedback. We have appreciated all the feedback we have received keep it coming in. You can still use our feedback at gracefultools.com but you can also use the link at the bottom of the page which now uses one of our surveys.

we have a meeting with some professional designers tomorrow night and plan on doing some additional performance improvements in the days to come. If you have wondered why we have been a bit slower updating our blog and rolling out updates in the last few weeks check out my family blog at www.kuoparis.com.

Warmly,
Jon