Microsys Blog

Actually, the title of this blog post is slightly misleading. It does not matter what type of file type you want to download from a website: PDF manuals, image galleries or instruction videos, you can download it all with using the A1 Website Download tool.

While the program will usually download entire websites that automatically includes all relevant files (what this includes can be configured), you can use it for much more. This includes using it as a pure image download tool.

If you want to know how to best use our website download tool for downloading e.g. pictures only, we have extended the image downloader tutorial with new explanations, instructions and screenshots

Having just added some new tutorials to the sitemap generator online help, here is a complete list:

• Standard HTML sitemaps
• Advanced HTML sitemaps
• Visual HTML sitemaps
• XML sitemaps
• Mobile sitemaps
• Video sitemaps
• Image sitemaps
• Code sitemaps
• News sitemaps
• ASP.Net Web.sitemap
• RSS sitemaps
• ROR sitemaps
• Text sitemaps

If you follow the more advanced sections of above sitemap tutorials, you may want to switch off easy mode in A1 Sitemap Generator.

You can also read the help article about sitemap file type differences if you just want a quick overview about sitemaps.

Merry XMAS and Happy New Year to All
Seeing that XMAS is coming we wanted to send out a new issue that contained both product news and discounts. Happy holidays to you all!

 
New Website Search Engine Program Released
I mentioned the plans about this in both our support forum, tweets and elsewhere, yet it continued to drag out as I was buy adding features to the existing Microsys tools. I am happy to announce that we recently released the A1 Website Search Engine tool.

In its present version, it features a unique Javascript search engine builder that beats similar solutions in search quality and file size. It uses technology found in A1 Website Analyzer and A1 Keyword Research to generate a search and score index taking content in pages (including weighing e.g. titles and headers higher than normal content), internal linking structure and other factors into consideration.

While the Javascript search engine is mostly useful to smaller websites (500-1000 pages) and offline media, a PHP/database search engine solutions will be soon added to the types of search engines that can be created.

 
XMAS Discount for Our Products
For the rest of December and a few days into January we are going to offer a 30% XMAS discount code. This offer is good for all our products and whatever number of licenses you want

(How to get the discount is written in the email version of the newsletter. Forgot to subscribe? If you hurry followed by emailing us, it is not too late.)

 
Development of Our Existing Products
We are as always working hard on improving our tools, so we recommend you download and install the latest releases at regular intervals. Remember that updates to whatever major version you purchased are always free! Example: If you bought version 1.0.0 then 1.9.9 is considered an update and therefore always free. In such cases, simply get the new release by clicking the “download” link on the product page!

 
Social Media
If you like our tools, please let other people know All pages in our website includes a link called “Like and share” at the far top right. Clicking on it takes you to a page with social buttons for Google +1, Facebook like, Twitter tweet, StumpleUpon and more. We really appreciate everyone helping us

If you have ever wanted an automatic way to create a visual sitemap of your entire website, check out this visual sitemaps guide.

It will show you how use our sitemap generator tool to create visual navigation sitemap for your website. Simply scan you website, pick the sitemap template you want to use and create a crisp and visual sitemap for your website.

If you are not satisfied with the sitemap styles and templates included in the sitemap creator tool, just create your own HTML/CSS sitemap template! You can either modify an existing template or create one from scratch, so it matches your website layout.

If you ever wondered if you could use our sitemap generator on linux, the following answer will please you, it is yes! The main requirement to get this working is simply to install and use Wine. What Wine does is that it loads and redirects Windows system calls to Wine replacements. This means the speed of the executable is often close to that of native Linux applications.

While the Linux and Wine platform solution is not officially listed as being compatible with our sitemap generator, chances are that it will work with few or no problems. Should you encounter issues not mentioned in the Linux and sitemap generator tool help page, do please let us know!

Our Thanks To All Subscribers
As all our existing customers now have had ample time to join the newsletter, we felt it was time to release the first edition! In particular since some have asked about the special promotion codes we mentioned would be available in the newsletter now and then

As thanks to all those who signed up, all existing subscribers can for the rest of the month get 50% off on their next single-user license purchase on any of our products we sell online, i.e. A1 Sitemap Generator, A1 Website Analyzer, A1 Keyword Research, A1 Website Scraper, A1 Website Download, Launcher (Pro), TimeSage Timesheets (Pro) and Automation Batch Tools

(How to get the discount is written in the email version of the newsletter. Forgot to subscribe? If you hurry followed by emailing us, it is not too late.)

 
Development of Our Existing Products
We are as always working hard on improving our tools, so we recommend you download and install the latest releases at regular intervals. Remember that updates to whatever major version you purchased are always free! Example: If you bought version 1.0.0 then 1.9.9 is considered an update and therefore always free. In such cases, simply get the new release by clicking the “download” link on the product page!

 
New Tool For Webmasters Coming Soon
We are currently working on a website search engine builder tool. It will allow you to easily setup search engine functionality for offline media such as CDs and online media such as websites. We are aiming for a solution that will be cost effective, easy to install, without any forced branding and able to deliver high quality search results!

It is by combining and extending technology already found in our keyword analysis and website analysis tools that we are creating this new product for webmasters, website owners and offline media publishers. As we continually build and expand our website tools technology, we will also be improving our custom search engine solution, e.g. by adding more “scoring” metrics in page content analysis used for ranking search results.

The first public release of this upcoming tool is expected in late 2011. (But can be delayed to early 2012 in case beta testing takes longer then expected.)

 
Social Media
If you like one of our products, please consider telling others! On all website pages including e.g. sitemap generator, there is a link at the far top right called “Like and share”. Clicking on it takes you to a page with social buttons for Google +1, Facebook like, Twitter tweet, StumpleUpon and more. We really appreciate everyone helping us

Speaking of social media, remember that you can follow us on twitter where we post product news and updates on regular basis. You can also engage with us online on our official support forum. We are always happy to receive and discuss ideas

In an attempt to expand the sitemap generator help and tutorials for users around the world, we will be launching some new websites with the best sitemap tutorials from xml-sitemaps-generator.com and html-sitemap.com translated to new languages The list of websites include:

• German: xml-sitemap-generator.de – Anleitungen, Wegweiser und Hilfe für Sitemaps in Deutsch

(The list will be updated as the websites are released)

Note: If you want to translate some sitemap tutorials to your native language, let us know!

With the continued updates to our sitemap generator program, now is the time to give it a try (the trial is fully functional for 30 days) if you are thinking about creating image sitemaps or video sitemaps for your website.

If you ever encounter any problems, just contact support. We can help you configure your project files (since default settings are not always enough) or issue a program update in a couple of days. Our goal remains that creating complete image sitemaps and video sitemaps of any website should be straightforward

We have just released a new website scraper tool.

Check it out if any of following ideas appeal to you:

• Combine and mix extracted data from online services, e.g. bookings, travel etc.
• Import scraped website data into various website content analysis and tools.
• Retrieve complete product inventory lists to automate linking and selling.

Ever wondered if you should create video sitemaps for your website, but didn’t because you hosted your videos on 3rd party video websites like YouTube?

Now our sitemap generator tool not only supports normal external video hosting/delivery solutions, but also sites like e.g. YouTube. (Should you encounter problems with a video hosting/delivery service, ask in sitemap generator support forums for having support added!)

Be sure to check the video sitemap tutorial for A1 Sitemap Generator.