EditMe Blog: Product Releases
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Product Release: Site Export Module
2008-06-24
A new module was released today that allows site administrators
to easily export the content from their site for archival and/or
off-line browsing purposes. Until now, EditMe has provided a MySQL/Zip
backup for download from sites on a Professional or better plan. That
mechanism is considered a premium service because of the need to
essentially store a second copy of the site on our servers. For
browsable backups of the site, we've pointed users to HTTrack, an open
source application designed to create off-line copies of web sites. The
power and complexity of HTTrack can be daunting, and so many customers
have requested something simpler. We're glad to finally heed that
request. Read the full post...
Product Release: Acton Family of Skins
2008-05-27
Today EditMe released a new set of five designs that customers can
apply to their sites. Dubbed the "Acton" family, the new design comes
in blue, green, brown, red and gray flavors. The new skins give EditMe
sites a fresh new look as well as a set of frequently requested tools
to
simplify design and layout customizations. Read the full post...
Product Release: Widgets and User Pages
2008-05-21
There are two new Modules available today: Widgets and User Pages.
The Widgets module provides a set of tools to ease the task of
importing HTML and JavaScript widgets from other sites into your EditMe
site. It also provides a Page Widget that allows you export the content
of any EditMe page as a widget for display in another web site.
The User Pages module fills a specific need for teachers and other site administrators that
need to create multiple users each with a private content page.
Without this module, an administrator must create a user, a group, a
policy and a page for each user. With this module, these tasks can be performed for multiple users with a single form post. Read the full post...
Product Release: Modules, Page Counter & User Stats
2008-01-28
2008-04-21
Over the weekend we updated EditMe with a new feature called Modules.
Similar to Skins, modules provide a way to package a set of pages and
attachments for one-click installation into a site. While Skins change
the look and feel of a site, modules provide new functionality. The release also includes many fixes, small enhancements and API updates. Read the full post...
Product Update: Maintenance Release & Enhancements
We rolled out a bunch of updates over the weekend that provide some
frequently requested enhancements, API additions and bug fixes. Nothing
major, but its nice to clear the decks of some stuff that's been
hanging around for a while now. Read the full post...
Product Updates: A Very Busy December
We were so busy in December we hardly had time to post to the blog!
There were a number of product updates in December. Here's the scoop.
Product Update: "Newton" Family of Skins
2007-10-18
As promised in Sunday's post, the new skins are now available. These
skins give EditMe a fresh new look and use CSS positioning instead of
tables. Check the full post for screen shots...
2007-10-14
Product Update: New Release Upgrades Style Sheets and Layouts
EditMe released an upgrade today that changes how Layouts and Style
Sheets are managed. Layouts previously used XSL, which was limiting and
difficult to use. The new layouts offer a simpler method
of creating custom designs for EditMe sites, and offer a programmable
API for accessing site content in a more dynamic way than was possible
before. Several other updates were bundled along with this release. Read the full release notes for details.
2007-08-20
Product Update: Boolean Search and Color Picker
Two issues raised by customers recently have been resolved. The + and -
Boolean operators in EditMe's search feature were not working as
advertised - this has been resolved. Also, the "More Colors" link in
the "Select text color" and "Select background color" editor dialogs
were not working in some versions of Internet Explorer. While we
continue to investigate that issue, we have chosen to disable the
inline dialogs. This means the dialogs in the editor will be real
pop-up windows. They will work with standard browser configurations,
but some more aggressive third party pop-up blockers will block them
unless an exception is made for the EditMe site. We hope to return to
the inline dialogs once this issue is resolved.
2007-06-25Product Update: Editor Enhancements
A
product update released today includes many enhancements and bug fixes
for EditMe's browser-based editor. Notable enhancements include
integrated image and link management, improved performance, a new
"Media" dialog to manage multi-media content, and improved Safari and
Opera support. Read the full announcement...
Product Update: 404 Page Eases Transition to EditMe
2007-05-03
Links
to pages on an EditMe site that don't exist have always gone to a
special page that prompts you to create it. This allows you to create
links to pages you intend to create as reminders to do so. But links to
files that don't exist (such as /index.html, which is not a valid
EditMe page name) would go to a traditional web server "404 Not Found"
page. In order to ease transitions for customers moving an existing
site to EditMe, we have changed this behavior to instead show an EditMe
page called "404". You can create this page on your site and decide
what message you want users to see when visiting a resource on your
site that can't be an EditMe page and does not exist. This page will
also be shown for links to attachments that have been deleted. (In case
you're wondering what the significance of 404 is, this is the numeric
status web servers respond with to a request for a resource that does
not exist.)
Product Update: Captcha Back Door Fixed
2007-04-03
While
testing the new captcha images last week we found a loophole in our
captcha system that a few aggressive spammers had been using to post
spam comments to our customer's wikis. If you had enabled captchas on
your site and saw little or no slow-down in spam comments, you were
almost certainly a victim of this flaw. Now that it is fixed, we expect
to see a dramatic drop in spam comments. Let us know if you notice a change on your site.
2007-03-26 Product Update: New Captcha Images
We
have replaced the original 5 letter dictionary word captcha images
with random five letter words that contain upper and lower case
letters, numbers and symbols. This exponentially increases the number
of captcha value possibilities and should go a long way towards
deterring spammer scripts from guessing captcha values. Read the full article...
Product Update: Minor Edits, Recent Changes Formatting & Login Form Messaging
2006-12-06
An
update to EditMe released today includes resolution of several
maintenance issues along with a few frequently requested features.
A new "Minor Edit" checkbox now appears on the Edit form. This checkbox places the text (minor edit) in the Comment box of the edit form. Any page edit with (minor edit) found in the comment is considered a minor edit. A description of the edit can also be included in the comment along with the text (minor edit).
A new user attribute specifies whether minor edits should be included in change notification emails. And a checkbox now appears on the Recent Changes page that will show or hide minor edits.
