Another month has passed, and as we draw closer to the year-end, we've been hard at work updating the OptimizePress platform to bring your more new features and templates.

Halloween is just upon us or may have passed by the time you read this post, and next month we have Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday!!

Before we go into the biggest sales month of the year, let's reflect on what we released in October.

We have just rolled out our brand new tabs element inside our page builder. Using tabs on your pages will help group together multiple pieces of content into a tabbed area that can be seen at the visitors choice.

Look at this example on a FAQ page. It uses tabs to break up the FAQ categories.

Here's another example where the content for each team is split into tabs.  When you click a team category, the content below changes and displays what's inside that tab.

This tabs example from Asana uses tabs to show features with animated images. This lets visitors see more features about the software and optimises the page for conversion as visitors are not overwhelmed with too much content.

Tabs allow you to have more content accessible on a page while keeping your page more organised and easier for visitors to consume.

The new tabs element also lets you drop other elements into each tab section like opt-in forms, videos, images, FAQ and even maps.

We've included a range of pre-set designs for you to choose from, and it has the flexibility for building complex layouts like the examples above or keeping them simple and clean like the example below.

The tabs options also have active, inactive and hover state effects to make it clear which tab area the user is viewing.

The tabs element is very flexible, allowing you to build any of the examples shown above.

Tabs features:

Watch the full video below to see all these features and more.

We've revamped how you set the master typography on your pages with a new master typography control panel and a quick link in the main editor top menu.

Here's how the control panel looks.

Please watch this video to understand how powerful the typography settings are and how it can override all your text styles on a page.

The new typography controls let you change styles for each individual item:

H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, paragraph (body), lists, hyperlinks, blockquotes, preformatted text, and override any font styles.

The benefit of the new typography settings is how you individually set styles for each text style and override existing styles that might already be applied to a template you are using.

The typography controls will change the font family, font size, colour or alignment for any chosen style (e.g. paragraph) if the elements of that type on the page do not have an inline setting.  So if you have already set a specific font, font size on a page and not reset to default, the typography settings will not change those texts on your page.

If you do want to override ALL texts on your page, we have also introduced a new override feature for all fonts styles.   This is extremely powerful when you want to change all font styles in one click completely.

The "all headings" option and "all texts" options (shown in the video) will allow you to make a quick change to the fonts/sizes etc of all the items within that category in the typography so you can change all headlines to use open sans for example.  It wont override on the page or make any difference to you changing those individual options - it's just designed to make it quicker to make bigger changes.

The override option if used for any item will override ALL items of that type e,g. paragraph, headline 1 etc. to use the font, size, colour and spacing options set in the typography.

You can also style blog posts in one paragraph block rather than adding new elements for each headline and paragraph (watch the video).

The old way was adding a headline element, styling it. Then add a paragraph element below and styling that. So using two elements and way way more clicks to achieve the heading and subheading look we wanted.

Now, you simply add the paragraph element, add your text. Next, you highlight the text you want to  be a headline, open the text format editor and then choose the heading format.

Again, be sure to watch the video above to see exactly how this is done.

That's not all. We also added a new Line Spacing to paragraphs (this is not the same as Line Height). 

This option adds space between each paragraph, allowing you to add white space between blocks of text, making it easy to read.

And there's more!! A new section override feature allows you to override all the fonts in only one of your sections, but it will not change other fonts in other sections. 

This is useful when you have a heavy content section and want to change the styling of that single section in one go.

To use this: Highlight the Section > click the Cog Wheel > Advanced Options > Typography Override

The section & row override will overide only those fonts in that section or row.

Note, if your fonts aren't changing, use the reset button to reset the font family and sizes.

Be aware this override will override ALL font styles, decoration, colours and alignment so check if you have text on different background colours before using it.

You can always go into each font and style it, but the override will use the default font styles you set in the typography control panel, and it will override everything. 

Remember, we have the undo option to fix small mistakes and page revisions if you need to roll back further in time. This is good to know for the first time you use it.

And lastly, we added a way to add hyperlinks colours to your overall page, so there is no need to style a link individually.

Did you see the new Glow template collection?

This fitness business website template pack will kick your brand into life! The subtle design has conversion-ready elements across all templates, and it is waiting for you to start promoting your brand with it.

The pack also includes a range of done for you funnels.

Templates included in the Glow set:

Again we wrap up a great month of new features and improvements to OptimizePress. Remember you can see the full changelog of all the tweaks and changes we've made over at my.optimizepress.com.

Please post your comments below as we always love hearing what you're up to and which feature you like most.

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