Sunday, September 7, 2008

New home page

We've made some tweaks to Zlert. The most obvious is a new home page. There's a bit more explanation as to what the site is about and the 1-2-3 steps are now displayed horizontally instead of vertically, so more information fits above the "fold" on the page. We've also added the shopping bag image, above, to emphasize more how Zlert can help you with all of your shopping.

More minor changes:

The "More options" link does not appear for the "All" category on the home page as is it is not relevant. It only appears when you select individual categories, such as Books, DVD or Grocery.

"Create an alert from any Amazon page" (Zlert Button) now moved over to the left side.

Added a help page for using the Zlert Button with the new Google Chrome browser.

If you type "TS" in the search box, instead of "+TS", you will see "Did you mean to search for Top Sellers (+TS)?" above the search results, with a link to the top sellers for that category. With Zlert, you can view the top ten best selling items in any category or sub-category on Amazon. Just select a category and type "+TS". People occasionally leave out the "+" in "+TS", so this is just a reminder.

We are always striving to make Zlert better and we will continue to hone it to make it more useful to you. We welcome any feedback. Let us know if we are hitting or missing the mark. Thanks.

Monday, September 1, 2008

989+ Cool Things

Zlert was featured recently on 989+ Cool Things. It's a blog about sites with services that catch the author's fancy. Thanks for the review.

Note, I said featured recently. The post on the 989+ site is dated May 7th, which is clearly wrong. Zlert wasn't available then.
Zlert was added to the Listio directory a while back. Listio is a directory of Web 2.0 applications and web sites. It fills a similar niche to Ziipa, which featured zlert a while back. They also have a few longer reviews of sites and applications. Nicely done.