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Friday, July 9 2010

New release coming next week

We are proud to announce that we are expecting to update SiteMaker to version R5.0 next week.

We've decided to bump our major release number to 5.0 because there has been an enormous amount of work done over the last months on the new edit environment. In our last release back in November, we introduced Flex (new Flash application framework) into the edit environment, which continued to talk to the old Flash edit tools that made up your site. We have now rationalised these into a single Flex environment which simplifies the code base and allows us to more rapidly develop features in the future using the Flex framework. Flex is still based on the Flash Player but it provides more tools to the developer who can therefore produce features more quickly. The big new features coming down the line (blog, eCommerce) will benefit significantly from being developed with Flex. These features are already in progress and well on the way to completion. More about that later.

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Tuesday, September 29 2009

New release - 29 September 2009 - New interface, HTML widget, site copy and more...

Yeah, it's release time again! Believe it or not we get just as excited as you do at these times. The months of hard work all come together and we get to push new things out to the Moonfruit-osphere. And this one is a biggy too.

So first things first, the new interface. For those of you who didn't see our sneak preview, this is what it looks like.

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General edit functions (click to enlarge image).

We're seeing the largest overhaul to the edit environment in the last 5 years as we drag SiteMaker kicking and screaming into the present and pave the way for the future. The long awaited HTML widget is now out of beta, works in all browsers (ooooohh), and opens up libraries of additional content. And you can now copy an entire site too...

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Wednesday, March 26 2008

New Release - 25 March 2008

Apparently, spring arrived last week, but with the Arctic weather that hit the UK over the weekend you'd be forgiven for thinking we'd returned to mid-winter. But this week does mark the arrival of our 2nd release for the year with some goodies and some bug fixes. We continue to finish and refine two larger projects - domain name registrations and a new File Manager - and these will be launched very soon. But rather than keep you waiting we wanted to give you a few new features to play with while we polish the other features and we wait for the real spring to arrive.

So what's on offer this month? You'll find details below:

New Features

  • 'Viewport' added to make editing and managing files easier
  • Improvements to W3C compliance and some tidy up
  • HTML version of page now opens in new window
  • Making Title tags more prominent in the HTML
  • 'Show Homes' page and links added to moonfruit.com
  • Addition of 10 new templates
  • New SEO guide added to the moonfruit.com portal
  • Improvements to multiple selection with changes to using the Control or Shift keys
  • Ctrl key required for 'logout' from widgets when editing

Bug fixes

  • Making the File Manager more context sensitive when adding images, audio and video
  • Resetting the Video widget will now hide the video provider label

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