New features

Forum

The new forum widget is out and is now live! It includes the following features:

Customisation/design features

  • resize to any width/height
  • use of new 'themes' technology
  • change text size colour and background colours independently

Functionality

  • subjects/topics/posts views for many different threads of discussion
  • set permissions, e.g. guests, or members only
  • set edit rights for moderators (e.g. members or a group of members)
  • lock subjects
  • set posts as 'sticky'
  • search all subjects/posts
  • all topics have their own RSS feed
  • all posts can contain rich text formatting, e.g. bold, etc., plus links
  • all posts have emoticons

Plus more. Have a play with it and discover them for yourselves.

NB. We can migrate data from the old 'message board' feature on request via customer support.

Theme technology (version 1 release)

We have introduced a new 'theme' technology to allow the easier customisation of the appearance of different widgets on your site. All of the new generation of widgets have had this theme technology added to them. The themes editor is available on the 'style' tab of the widget. The widgets currently using themes are:

  • Forum
  • Comment
  • Mail to a friend
  • Chat

The theme technology allows you to pick a look and feel from a defined list. This will change the colours (background and text), plus the button styles and border styles of the widget. Once a theme has been chosen, you can customise individual elements on the 'style' tab.

Version 1 of the technology is now live, but we hope to release extended versions of it soon. This will allow you to set up and save your own themes and set default themes for your whole site, so the appearance of all widgets could be changed at once

Multiple Select

You can now select multiple objects at the same time on your page! This can be done either by:

  • dragging the selection box, e.g. click (outside of an object) and drag to create your selection box (any object inside the box will be selected). Or,
  • holding the 'control' or 'shift' keys and clicking on the object that you wish to add/remove from your selection. (You can also click on the list of objects within the drop down menu on the 'edit' panel to add them to your selection). Or,
  • use ‘Select All’ from the ‘Edit’ menu on either the advanced or basic toolbar

Once you have a set of objects selected you can:

  • drag them as a group
  • nudge them as a group using the arrow keys (shift + arrow is a big nudge)
  • delete them as a group
  • copy and paste them (even between pages!)

New Media

40 new fonts

15 new crop tools for images

15 new stock images

18 new image cut outs

40 new graphic elements, symbols and logos

We've created a demo site of the widgets at sitemakerwidgets.moonfruit.com



Upgrades/changes

Comment

  • Addition of themes technology
  • Addition of rich text formatting (including links) in comments

Mail to a friend

  • Addition of themes technology

Chat

  • Addition of themes technology

And that's all there is for now. It's been a long one, but hopefully we'll have a bit more before Xmas.