- We have added an award certificates store where you may order both quality paper that's blank for use with all of the pre-made award templates and also Make-A-Cert.
- The store also includes pre-printed award frames, so that you don't have to worry so much about burning a lot of your own ink when you're creating your awards.
- In our tests with various desktop units the printing cost per certificate can run as high as $1.50 per award, depending upon the exact printer model and the ink cartridges you use. So if you need to print lots of awards this may be a cost saving option for you.
- We have expanded our program for DARE officers from the local to national level effective immediately. The press release announcing this new program is available here.
- Interested DARE Officers may sign up their department using this special contact form.
- Note: This program is open only to actual DARE Officers and Program Adminsitrattors. We will be verifying the accuracy of information.
- There have been a few hundred more awards uploaded and added to the database in the last few weeks. They're scattered across the five different sectors and may be found in the "New Awards" area for each sector.
- We've also added a notifier for you so that you can see how large or small a file is and how the file size of one award format compares to the other available file types. You'll see this new notifier in the "Formats Available" area on the normal Pre-made Templates pages for each sector and the new All Pre-made Certs area, the New Awards pages for each sector and also in the Certificate Search area.
- We have made an All Pre-made Certificates option available for those who do not want to drill down by one of the five main sectors. This will retrieve and allow you to view and choose every pre-made award template from every category, regardless of sector.
- We have better defined some existing certificate categories.
- Literally thousands of new pre-made certificate designs have been added to existing categories.
- Several new categories have been added to the mix due to popular request of subscribers. (Gag/Funny & Religious/Faith)
- The total of pre-made certificates now numbers approximately 5,000 different designs to choose from.
- There are now multiple versions of Make-A-Cert which allows you to better customize the look and feel of your custom awards.
- All versions of Make-A-Cert have now been upgraded to give you the ability to use your own graphics as the watermark. In other words, if you would like your Corporate, School or Organization logo it is now very easy to do.
- Additionally with this new Logo Watermark capability, if you allow our site to set a Cookie on your computer the MAC will remember that you have already uploaded a watermark graphic and automatically include it in the list of watermarks you choose from. Look at the very top of the watermark list to see your custom graphics.
- Since the site is so much larger we have also built a Search Engine that will allow subscribers to search for specific types of certificates, specific colors, etc.
- We have created literally thousands of new certificates that we have termed "blank". Blank means that every letter of text can be fully edited. So if you see a pre-made certificate design that you've always liked, but that didn't include the text you needed, you can now use the "blank" version to create a totally customized award certificate.
- We have converted every single existing certificate design into Microsoft Word (.DOC) format. They are still available in Acrobat (.PDF) format and will continue to be, however going forward you will be able to choose which format best suits your needs. This was added because you asked for additional formatting choices.
- We have decided to offer a lot more free certificates. Since there are more general categories and more certificates overall, it makes sense. All told, there are now several dozen free award certificates available in the various areas for anyone to use.
As usual, your suggestions and feedback are always welcome. Feedback for the site redesign; Suggestions for future improvements. We will continue to improve and expand the award certificate service based directly on subscriber and visitor suggestions!
