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Further news on 1.1

Posted by Michael Lyons on Tuesday, November 28, 2006

A few more changes have happened since the last announcement.

  • Added ability to create headings on the fly in a specific font and output to an image. Currently this option must be handled manual and does not have a toolbar option in the page editor.
  • Added configuration option for location of menu images in web.config.
  • Added extra page creation information to the trace log.
  • Changed Google site maps to the new Sitemap 0.9 specification which is widely adopted and includes support from Google, Microsoft and Yahoo!
  • Changed image resizer to produce higher quality images and be able to adjust aspect ration if only height or width specified.
  • Fixed an issue with itemised pages displaying an error at times. This was caused by ASP.Net's AppPool recycling.
  • Fixed issue with not being able to edit a menu item if menu images directory does not exist.

 

Compose.Net 1.1 in the pipeline

Posted by Michael Lyons on Thursday, November 02, 2006

Compose.Net 1.1 is in development at the moment which will yeild some significant upgrades to the content management system.

Changes include:

  • Added micro summary feature for RSS pages (Supported by Firefox 2.0)
  • Added tabbed admin theme
  • Added ability to set email server settings other than the default localhost
  • Added new plugin to allow for creation of new administration pages
  • Added ability to see plugin administration pages from the plugin menu
  • Added new plugin type 'PageControl' similar to ASP.Net's usercontrol which supports ASCX files
  • Added setting for switching the site to use SSL
  • Added support for placing plugin's in the bin directory
  • Added support for refreshing plugins when files inside bin and plugin directories change
  • Added a range of new callback operations within the system, which includes the ability to register for creating specific page types
  • Added plugin upgrade system
  • Added ability to generate google site map from your publically published pages
  • Added bug reporting link to administration area
  • Added support forum link to administration area
  • Improved GZip compression support
  • Upgraded TinyMce version to 2.0.8
  • Fixed TinyMce entity encoding issues
  • Fixed RSS issue where RSS would point to incorrect address when browsing an item in an itemised page
  • Fixed administration menu not showing up in Safari
  • Modified logout page to link back to administration area and sites homepage
Hopefully we will also be announcing a few more new features in the coming week.

 

Compose.Net June CTP

Posted by Michael Lyons on Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Compose.Net June Community Technology Preview has now been released to the public for download.

The June CTP license is free to download. And can be downloaded from the downloads page .

The release version number is 0.9.060626.1. 

 

New Version of CMS (Compose.NET)

Posted by Lee Sinclair on Tuesday, May 16, 2006

The CMS has had a change of identity, and is now known as Compose.NET, as well as this name change there have been more additions and bug fixes to the system as a whole.

  • User documentation has been added
  • Help tips have been added on all pages explaining all fields
  • Users are now able to create admin, page, and application plugins
  • Updated setup wizard
  • UI has been cleaned up
  • New CMS Logo
  • Paging on lists
  • AJAX implemented into the back end
  • Fixed a bug with overzealous server and browser caching
  • Numerous other bug fixes

 

Next Versions Changes

Posted by Michael Lyons on Sunday, April 23, 2006

Well the next version of our CMS is to feature:

  • WYSIWYG editor toggle which allows you to switch between the html editor and a plain text box
  • A font selector in the html editor
  • A new insert image window in the html editor
  • Ability to preview un-published pages
  • Improved plugin support including the use of plugin control templates
  • A setup wizard
  • Ability to append the sites title to every page
  • Improved performance (latest testing shows the CMS can support over 160 page requests per a second in a non dedicated hosting enviroment)
  • Menus now support images
  • Ability to unload the CMS off the domain (unloads the process)

 

We have also been busy working on some default plugins which will ship with the CMS.
Heres a list of the ones which will be included straight out of the box for free:

  • Banner rotator control
  • Sitemap control
  • Site search control
  • Login control
  • User registration control

 

CMS Version 0.1.60315.1 Online

Posted by Lee Sinclair on Wednesday, March 15, 2006

New CMS version 0.1.60315.1 is now online.

Changes as follows:

  • When user creates account, password email is now sent out
  • IE admin CMS left site border is alligned properly now
  • Styles are fixed on the edit page
  • Styles and colors on changeuserdetails page have been fixed and are now readable
  • Added Validation on the ChangePassword.aspx page

 

 

CMS Version 0.1.60314.1 Online

Posted by Michael Lyons on Tuesday, March 14, 2006

New CMS Version 0.1.60314.1 online.

We are planning to have 0.1.60315.1 up by the end of the day tommorow.

Changes as follows: 

  • Alternative data caching method available
  • Admin homepage has new icons
  • Logout button now available on admin menu
  • Image gallery has styling on thumbnails
  • Warning notifies the user to add an itemised content template before creating an itemised content page
  • TinyMce/WYSIWYG insert control button works
  • TinyMce/WYSIWYG insert hash field works
  • TinyMce/WYSIWYG now styled correctly
  • Removed help button from TinyMce
  • When creating a page template, theme set in settings should be selected instead of the first on the list

 

 

CMS Demo Online

Posted by Michael Lyons on Tuesday, March 07, 2006

CMS standard demo goes live

 



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