Absolutely not. Your Spanglefish 2 site will continue to work as it does now for the foreseeable future. However, we will not be developing Spanglefish 2 further. From now on we’ll be focussing 100% on continuing development of the modern, standards-compliant Spanglefish 3 platform, and making it even better.

• Copy all the pages and text across from your old site.
• Copy your gallery and shop items to your new site (but we'd recommend that you upload new, larger images as soon as you can as the new site will benefit from much larger images)
• Copy news stories, members' profiles, calendar events, etc, over to your new site.
• Transfer all your site documents (PDFs, Word documents, etc) from your old Document Library.

• we can't enlarge your old site's photos to fit your new, wider site pages. We can transfer them at the size they are, but you will need to upload new ones if you want the photos to appear bigger and look better.
•  we can't copy your old site design to your new site. Because of the new technology and more modern wider page sizes your old site's 'branding' (banners, footers, etc) will not fit the new site's pages very well. In addition, Spanglefish 3 offers you new page design and layout capabilities, and exploiting these will let you create a much better looking modern site by creating new graphics at the correct size for your new site's pages.

The costs of our providing Spanglefish 1 and 2 sites were subsidised by us displaying Google adverts on free sites. Unfortunately the online advertising marketplace has changed greatly in the last ten years and it's no longer possible for us to cover our costs in that way.

If you still have Gold 'credit' on your old site we will ensure that this is credited to your Spanglefish 3 account when you upgrade.

If you currently have an SSL certificate for your old site through Calico UK/Hostworld we'll take that into account too.

Unlike Spanglefish 1 and 2, Spanglefish 3 essentially has no practical limits to file sizes or numbers. On top of that you can upload multiple files or images at one time. We do, however, reserve the right to impose limits if we feel the system is being abused.

There are several significant improvements, including . .

• the ability to add a 'personalisation' option where someone can add, for example, the name they want printed on a T-shirt. You can also add options like sizes or colours.
• an option to offer multiple prices for an item. So, for instance, you can sell a large T-shirt for more than a small one.
• you have the option to allow every shop item to have its own page which is much better for search engine purposes. If you prefer you can have the items appearing in a popup overlay instead when clicked.
• you can pay a little extra to use the built-in shopping cart rather than use PayPal's. This provides a useful facility for calculating postage and discounts.

[NOTE: we always stress that Spanglefish does not provide a full, professional e-commerce facility. It provides a simple 'one size fits all' shop facility which suits many small businesses but is not designed to handle large or very complex shops.]

Yes. You can upload dozens of images (or files) at a time via the admin system. The Gallery Wizard system also means you can then display a whole folder of new images in a Gallery 'block' on a page with just a few clicks.

There are now 3 levels of users who have access to the admin system, and a new non-editing Member category.

• Lowest: Content Editors have access to manage the text, files and images on the site, but can't add or delete other administrators or access some advanced admin functions. A Content Editor can be set to only have access to edit specific functions, like Calendars or Galleries.
• Medium: Administrators have access to all the editing functions as a Content Editor does, but can also add and delete other users and change advanced settings.
• Highest: The Developer is the only level of administrator who has access to the facilities for changing the layout and styles of the site.
• Non-admin: A Member can't edit anything on the site, but can view protected pages when logged in. So, you could have a Members area of the site which is only viewable by logged in members but invisible to the public.

LOGIN:  The other major improvement is that if you are an editor on multiple websites you will only need to have a single login account and password. The 'Your Websites' area in the admin system of any site you are an administrator of will allow you to jump to your other sites. This means that you can be a Developer on one site and a Content Editor on another, but use just a single login for both.

Yes, you can. The FAQ block is just one of the many different block types that you can add to pages on your site. To get an idea of the ones available have a look at the Blocks page on the menu on this site.