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.extendr allows customization of your profile. The free version allows 6 foreground and 2 background colors and premium adds fully customizable colors. Premium also enables custom background images and profile pictures for more personal pages. Each version also lets you type a brief summary to provide some additional context about yourself. Note that your summary will also be used as the meta description for your profile which is what will be printed about your .extendr page in search results.

A recent feature addition to .extendr is the Tour. The .extendr profile is a great way to present your links, but we thought we could do better at letting people check out all of somebody’s .extendr links in succession. By either adding “/tour” to the end of someone’s .extendr address or clicking the “My Tour” button in the top right of their profile, a viewer can go through all of someone’s links, one at a time by clicking on the right and left arrows.

Now, we do use an iframe for this, and I am well aware of the controversy, and even downright anger, a lot of site owners have over misused iframes, but we believe that this use adds value to our web experience and we hope (and have heard) people find it useful. Unfortunately, there are quite a few sites out there that will detect if they’re loaded inside an iframe and break out of them..which stops the .extendr tour immediately when this happens. We’ve handled this by maintaining a list of these sites and loading an informative message during the tour when one of these sites is detected with a link to open the site in a new tab so the tour may continue. If anyone does find sites that are still breaking people’s .extendr tours, feel free to let me know!

Check one out at http://neilberget.extendr.com/tour.

First, .extendr is a collection of your links. It is common for people today to have a presence on many different sites. They may have a blog or two, a facebook account, twitter, and a collection of accounts on other random social networks. With .extendr, you pull all these together and if someone wants to check you out they can instantly see which social networks they have in common with you and what else looks interesting to them.

Links can be added in several ways. First, you can simply type or paste in a url and link name. Or, you can use the popular site dropdown to pick a popular service and just type your username in and .extendr will construct your profile link. Third, and perhaps the quickest for adding a bunch of sites at once, is the Quick Add feature. Quick Add is a bookmarklet (found in settings > profile) that can be dragged to your browser bookmark bar and any site you’re on that you’d like to add to your extendr profile can be quickly added by just clicking the button. We also support email links: add an email and we won’t publish it, but will let visitors to your profile send you a message through a form.. if it comes from someone you wish to continue communicating with.. go ahead and reply, otherwise, they won’t have your email address.

You can put your .extendr address (e.g.  http://neilberget.extendr.com) anywhere that asks for your ‘bio’ or ‘profile url’ as well as your email signatures and business cards and you’ve instantly guided anyone who’s interested to your entire web presence.

It’s about making it easy for people to meet you.

We recently added a feature with a bit of a technical name that will help users add pages to their profile with much more ease than the previous manual way. Technically, it’s called a bookmarklet. We’ll refer to it as our “Quick Add” feature.

All users now have a link at the top of their “/edit_profile” page that can be made a bookmark in their browser. Call it what you like but consider keeping it in view on your browser window instead of hiding it way way down a list. This will be a helpful little button. When you’re out surfing and you want to add something to your .extendr.com page just click the bookmark button while on the desired page. We’ll do the hard work of capturing the address, naming it and adding it to your profile in a new catagory called “added from web” all with the magic of some javascript and other goodness.

For you though, remember, you click once. Just once for all those steps. That’s why we call it “Quick Add.” Then you can login and switch stuff around as you like.

We hope you like it. We hope it helps. Cheers.