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New VAT e-Commerce rules in Europe
Since July 1, 2021, the European Union (EU) has made significant changes to its value added tax (VAT) rules that impact companies selling services or goods from one country to another inside the EU. If you have an e-Commerce site, reside in an EU country and sell in one or several other EU countries then you will need to complete your VAT returns by country and apply some changes to your e-Commerce site in TOWeb.
Version 9.08 is released
This update adds improvements such as the possibility to make a mono page of the site with a photo album, use a new predefined field for multilingual sites, customize new elements of your theme but also brings some fixes especially for the BackOffice of e-Commerce sites.
New free web tools from LAUYAN
Discover the new section of our web tools in which we offer small free online services that are reusable and useful for your websites, your internet communications on social networks or for your marketing. In addition to Screenzy and PageXL, you will now find CropImage to crop your photos as well as an ordered list generator with custom styles to use on your websites.
Version 9.07 is released
This update makes unlimited the number of images that can be used inside the slider of your theme but also makes corrections to your site's cookie consent, to the order status of certain online payments, as well as password encoding when publishing your website.
Custom cookie consent
TOWeb version 9 allows you to add personalized cookie consent so that your visitors can see which cookies are being used on your site and decide which ones they want to accept or decline. In order to preserve the privacy of your visitors, TOWeb makes this possible for you in a very simple and assisted way in just a few clicks with predefined and customizable texts directly available in more than ten languages..
Paragraphs aside background images
With TOWeb V9 each paragraph can now be positioned to the left or right of its background image with customizable margins, width, opacity and background color to keep your texts legible. Find out how to use this new feature and thus embellish the pages of your site.
Version 9.06 is released
This update brings fixes to the display of Leaflet maps, background images and theme slider, as well as to the functioning of polls and the Backoffice of websites.
Make your website "click & collect" in just a few clicks
Do you have a local business, do you sell by delivery but still do not have a "Click and Collect" option? With TOWeb 9 it has never been so easy and quick to create your own e-Commerce site with "Click and Collect" and thus allow your customers to order online and pick up their order in your store . This web-to-store approach, free and practical, appeals to consumers. So do not wait any longer!
Beware of scraper websites
In the opposite situation as well, certain pages of your site may have already ended up on some scraper sites without your knowledge.
So how and what to do to avoid all this?
Version 9.05 is released
This update now allows you to automatically generate Open Graph metadata by default in all the pages of your site including also the "twitter cards", improves the PHP support test of your host by displaying its version number and corrects some presentation malfunctions related to albums, catalogs and Backoffice.
Version 9.04 is released
This update improves the cookie consent customisation and fixes different issues in particular regarding the alignment of heading/paragraph titles, the access to the Backoffice and the direct click download of images form certain web browsers.
Version 9.03 is released
This update corrects crashes that may occur on certain configurations when adding topics to a site as well as the presence of cookie consent buttons at the end of pages displayed in superimposition.
Version 9.02 is released
This update corrects issues regarding new TOWeb 9 features (direct image download click and access to the new Backoffice) as well as a problem with the display of blogs on websites.
Version 9.01 is released
This update corrects several display and operation problems relating to images in the site as well as malfunctions in the Backoffice and in the TOWeb 9 catalog & album content reorganization screen
New version 9 of TOWeb
This new version 9 is a major version including many new features that will allow you to modernize your site, improve its performance and its SEO, but also the online sales of your e-shop with Click & Collect support, order tracking, a new Backoffice and much more...
COVID-19 : Suspend website activity without impacting Google
But how can you stop your e-commerce site, your services and inform about your business changes without impacting the SEO of your website in the long term?
Version 8.13 is released
This update brings corrections for the online payment Ingenico (aka Ogone), the poll object, a mailing list security issue, the TOWeb user interface and also fixes a malfunction of the Free edition when used on Mac.
TOWeb's exceptional anniversary offer
We are ending the summer of our 15th anniversary by offering you a 50% discount on the purchase of all TOWeb 8 editions as well as all PageXL plans.
This offer expires Wednesday, September 16 at midnight (Paris time, France, GMT+2).
You can subscribe or renew your PageXL plan from your account (create a Free PageXL account first if you do not have one) and purchase TOWeb by using the buttons below.
-50% off on TOWeb 8 PREMIUM
24,50€ instead of 49€ -50% off on TOWeb 8 E-COMMERCE
49,50€ instead of 99€ -50% off on TOWeb 8 STUDIO
99,50€ instead of 199€
Watch out for duplicate content
Duplicate content is an important aspect of SEO that requires your full attention to avoid seeing your site heavily penalized by Internet search engines like Google or Yahoo/Bing. We have listed the main errors you need to avoid on your site as well as server's configuration aspects and invite you to follow our advice.
Second exceptional offer of the summer !
Only during the next 48 hours, a license of TOWeb 8 offered with PageXL plans !
- TOWeb Premium offered (worth 49€) for any new purchase or renewal of a PageXL SOLO plan (24€ / year)
- TOWeb E-Commerce offered (worth 99€) for any new purchase or renewal of a PageXL PRO plan (48€ / year)
- TOWeb Studio offered (worth 199€) for any new purchase or renewal of a PageXL Studio plan (96€ / year)
To receive your free license of TOWeb, just subscribe or renew your PageXL plan and send your invoice number by email to contact@pagexl.com.
This offer expires Wednesday August 26 at midnight (Paris time, France, GMT+1).
Version 8.12 is released
This update fixes a problem with links and catalog content in multilingual sites as well as various issues relating to the subscription to the mailing list and improves the option allowing to shutdown the computer after a successful publication.
Unwanted ads on your site
Version 8.11 is released
This update reinforces the security of the sites and corrects many problems related to the update of the online stock from the e-Commerce BackOffice, the hover image zoom function on smartphones and tablets, the theme slider, the unsubscribe links of newsletters, the status of sub-products without stock management, as well as abnormal slowdowns when loading or editing topics on sites containing users' scripts.
TOWeb's exceptional anniversary offer
We celebrate this summer the 15th anniversary of our company Lauyan Software, an entrepreneurial adventure started with TOWeb version 1.00 on August 6, 2005.
For this event, we will be making flash sales of our TOWeb and PageXL products throughout this summer. The first one, starting this Wednesday for 48 hours, is exceptional since it is a 50% discount on all editions of TOWeb V8, less than a year old. This offer expires Friday, July 3 at midnight (Paris time, France, GMT+1). To take advantage of it, use the coupon code TOWEB15YEARS or the purchase buttons below.
-50% off on TOWeb 8 PREMIUM
24,50€ instead of 49€ -50% off on TOWeb 8 E-COMMERCE
49,50€ instead of 99€ -50% off on TOWeb 8 STUDIO
99,50€ instead of 199€
Compatibility with Mac OSX Catalina
Both version 8 and version 7 of TOWeb can now be used under Mac OS X version 10.15 (Catalina). If you are using TOWeb V8 you need to download and reinstall again version 8.10. If you are using TOWeb V7 you will need to download and reinstall version 7.24. As for TOWeb V5 and V6, these former versions remain only compatible with OSX 10.14 (Mojave) and earlier but are not compatible with Catalina.
Lauyan.com service stopped for V2 to V4 e-Commerce sites
The "Lauyan.com email notification service" which can be used in the old versions V2, V3 and V4 of TOWeb will be definitively stopped within a few weeks. If you were still using this option in TOWeb V2-V4 for your e-Commerce website, you will need to select instead the "form to mail i-service" option, indicated as recommended in the "Options > e-Commerce > Submitted orders configuration" screen, before to publish your site.
End of the exceptional interruption
Due to a denial-of-service attack that occurred Saturday late afternoon, May 23, 2020 our lauyan.com server was no longer reachable, as well as our email server. None of our data could be accessed or damaged by this attack and everything is now back to normal since this Monday. As for PageXL and its services completely independent, it has not been impacted, your sites have always remained online. We are sorry for this incident and its exceptional duration.
Display a popup message on your site
Version 8.10 is released
This update optimizes the responsive behavior of your site on mobile devices not only on images and objects embedded in the content of your paragraphs but also on the slider of your theme. In addition, some bugs related to the theme and e-Commerce features have been fixed and new types of scripts are now also supported.
Add COVID-19 announcements to your website
Version 8.09 is released
This update brings the possibility of playing a sound to signal the end of publication of a site as well as a fix in TOWeb Portable, an improvement in CSS styles and an optimization for PHP 7.
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Version 8.08 is released
This update brings some fixes but mainly improvements on styles with new effects applicable to elements of your web pages and optimizations reducing the size of CSS files by up to 45% on your sites.
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A Falling Hearths effect for Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day (February 14th) is approaching and you want to beautify your website for that event? Well, if you previously used and appreciated the snow effect introduced by TOWeb version 8.06 then you will probably want to give a try to the new falling hearth animation over the content of your pages !
Which PHP version to choose for your site
Version 5 of PHP is no longer maintained since January 1, 2019 which means it has not been updated for more than a year now. Knowing that security flaws are regularly discovered in old versions of PHP, for more security, durability and not leaving your site obsolete or vulnerable, we recommend to use a recent version of PHP (7.2 or 7.3). Regarding the i-services scripts integrated in TOWeb, we also recommend PHP 7 but only with TOWeb V8. If you use an old version of TOWeb, then you will have to keep and stay with your current version of PHP in order for your website to continue working properly.
Version 8.07 is released
This update brings improvements to the CSS editor for multilingual websites as well as several fixes in particular regarding the social buttons, the display of the cookie consent banner and the management of the <head> section of the catalogue products.
Best wishes for 2020
We hope you discovered and enjoyed all the new features of TOWeb V8 coming with more possibilities for your websites still remaining perfectly viewable by all your visitors, whether they use smartphones, tablets or computers.
Whatever the version of TOWeb you use, the one of yesterday, today or tomorrow, we hope that our software will continue to bring you full satisfaction for all your 2020 web projects.