When you set up your Pro Account within Sprout, the logo/share bar is disabled by default. Since your Personal Platform Account is not keyed off of a particular share button, a share/embed link must be made. You need to create a share button yourself via the Properties Panel "links and tracking" category. (See our video below.)

1. Create a text or image link (highlight a line of text or select an image so it has selection handles around it).
2. Go to the "links and tracking" section and select Page > share/embed page. This enables your Platform Account.
3. Select "Publish". Select the platform account associated with the link. Hit "continue".
4. Re-post your HTML code to your web page or quick-post to your social networking site.

Do you have an image, logo, color, tabs or navigation buttons that you want repeated on all or most of your pages? Need a yummy tip? Just think "SPROUT SANDWICH." The top of the sandwich is your foreground master page and the bottom of the sandwich is your background master page. Content pages are sandwiched in-between. To switch between the master and content pages go to the Pages Panel at the bottom of your screen. Designing this way keeps your work organized, your repeating elements aligned from page-to-page and saves you loads of time!

Objects (such as buttons or navigation tabs) on the foreground master page will appear above or on top of your content . Images, logos or a color fill on your background master page will appear below or under your content. To turn off a master page go to the Properties Panel (only accessible when nothing on the page is selected) and you will see checkboxes that let you turn off one or both pages.

See our bunny video below for more information (you may need to click on "Read more").

Add an iCalendar or Twitter to your Sprout to let others know your actions in the moment, your schedule for the day or your plans all month. Our two newest videos show you how to add these components to your Sprout - and keep friends and family in the loop on what's happening.

1. Navigate using a thumbnail menu: The thumbnail menu is a navigation bar that is comprised of teeny snapshots of all the pages in your sprout. When you click on the snapshot of a page in the menu bar, you navigate to it. Voila! It is usually best to have at least four pages in your project before you use a thumbnail menu and to have pages simple in design.

We have four new videos for you! You can get a sneak peak above or access them anytime by clicking on the blue help icon in the upper right corner of the builder. We also are creating some special tutorials for adventurous sprout designers, so stay tuned.

Is your mind blank contemplating the white canvas? Do you want to share your photos, music and videos but lack awareness? Are you seeking answers? In only three easy steps, you will understand.

Relax. Breathe. Download.

We have two step-by-step tutorials especially for novices, "Getting Started" and "Adding Asset". Enjoy the moment.

Getting Started
Adding Assets

You’ve been asking – no, not for my vital statistics – for help videos and we'll be posting the first set in the next day or two. “Getting Started”, “Adding Assets”, “Shapes Tools” and “Text Tool” videos are in the first release. Others we have planned are “Object Properties”, “Links and Tracking”, “Designing Pages”, “Master Pages”, “Components”, “Settings”, “Publishing” and “Reports”. And that is not all! Soon, dearest Dorothy, you will be able to travel to lots of tips and tricks, some from clever and amazing sprout users, and some from yours truly & Kelly, our new design intern. Kelly dashed off a sprout to celebrate her arrival as the newest member of our CC Intern Team.

Although we have been taught to keep our content short and sweet, the “less is more” theory works best in swimsuit competitions. In this information age, more content is simply MORE. That does not mean you should rattle on-and-on but you also should not scrunch and squeeze your content into one page; let it breathe – enjoy the white space.

Sprout Builder is sturdy; it was built with multi-pages in mind. With navigation buttons ready for a quick drag to the canvas or with a timer component that works without a click of your pinkie, there is no excuse for a cramped style. Let the “white” shine through. The sprout below is the beginning of a project for the Career Technical Education Program in Sonoma County; more information means more pages. Yea! Give your content room, s-p-r-e-a-d out!

One of our users (Owen Mack) provided a nifty little trick today to post blip.tv video into sprout.

I'm running vids from blip.tv no prob--you can drop .flv's in the sprout video window (not just youtube urls), and blip makes your raw .flv's available. go into the page for your blip video and click on "media" in the right hand column, grab the url for the flv, and drop it into sprout. nice!

Yes.. you can play any raw .flv in the sprout video player. As long as you can get the URL for the .flv you can just add it to you asset manager or directly into the video component and you are ready to go.

We are working on integrating additional video sources with Brightcove and MySpace video up next in queue. Thanks for all the input and big thanks Owen and other users who are passing on their tips and tricks. Please make sure to read the forums as there is a wealth of information there. We are launching a major overhaul of the forums soon that will have searching and other key functions.