More updates made live today
Today brings more new features, enhancements and bug fixes as we work to improve all things Viviti at a rapid pace. Notable new things with today's release include:
- Many Internet Explorer specific bug fixes.
- New Paypal Component features such as shopping cart and donation support.
- The ability the manually refresh Blogroll and Feed Component feeds.
- The Digg Component can now filter by subtopics (eg. Science/Space, instead of just Science).
- Added referrer tracking to website statistics. You can now see where your visitors are coming from!
The rest of the release notes can be found in it's Release History.
We love getting your feedback regarding current and past releases and suggestions for future releases, so let us know what you think and what you'd like to see!
Brand new components and features
Another new release is live as of today and brings with it a lot of exciting new features and changes! Here's the breakdown:
- New Components: We've added a Digg Component as well as a Reddit Component to our suite of social networking components by popular demand!
Check them out in action in the Social Networking section of the example Viviti site!
- Site Statistics: Another popular request was user viewable site statistics. The wait is over and you can now view a variety of detailed statistics for your pages. Head over to the Statistics Wiki page to learn more!
These are just the highlights - a bunch of other features, enhancements and bug fixes were also included, such as the ability to add attachments to a support ticket! This is useful when a screenshot of your issue would help us in resolving it, for example.
A complete list of changes can be found in the release history for this release.
New features available today
Among the bug fixes and enhancements released today, some new features are now available to offer further functionality to you in building your Viviti site!
These include a new image hover toolbar in the Visual Editor. If you hover over an image it now gives you options to edit, delete, and align the image in a variety of ways.
We also added option for creating links inside the Visual Editor (found in the Content Block, Youtube, Single Image and Blog components, among others) that open in a new window - a feature requested by many members. This feature is also available while adding links to external sites in navigation (via the Navigation component or the Navigation section of your Toolbar).
New changes are live
We have recently released a whole new set of bug fixes, features and enhancements which improve functionality and ease of use, and make Viviti an even better experience overall for members! These include:
- 14 New themes!
- Improved theme filtering.
- Modified Theme Selection dialog to make it easier to see what the themes look like when changing or selecting a theme.
- Improved component selector, changed from grid to list view.
- Extensive upgrades to the backend resulting in improved performance and page load times.
- Visitors can properly delete Blog comments after posting them, for a short period of time.
- Improvements to Blog post comment spam filtering.
- Javascript files can now be edited from the edit theme source code editor.
- Improved dialog responsiveness, load time, and the 'Loading' text is now visible when waiting for a dialog to load.
For a complete list, check out the Release Notes for this release over on the Viviti Wiki!
Did you know...
Here are a few interesting things that might help you out while using Viviti:
Dragging Components between Pages
If you add a component to the wrong page, or simply decide you want it on a different page, you don't have to delete the component and then add it again.. You can simply move it! To do this you just grab the component as if you were going to drag it somewhere else on the page, but instead drag it to the page dropdown in the toolbar.. it will open and you can simply select a different page. When you let go it will ask if you want to move the component to that page, or just copy it. For more information, there is an article about it on the wiki!
Turning your Nested Navigation Menu into a Hover or Dropdown menu
We've had a bunch of people asking how to make their nested navigation menus into hover or dropdown menus, so we have made an excellent javascript available within your theme. This requires editing your theme source code to do, but if you are comfortable with that we suggest reading the tutorial to get started!
Using the Collapse Components toolbar for easier editing
On the statusbar there is a button that allows you to collapse all the components on your page. This accomplishes a couple things things - by collapsing all the content it makes it much easier to move components around the page. It can also allow you to edit or remove components that may be broken and hard to find, or simply have no visual output (for example an embeded javascript counter). For the advanced user it also provides a quick reference of all the CSS ID's for CSS or Javascript work. As usual, you can check the page on the wiki for more information!
Our Wiki has a lot more information including instructions on how to create your own custom theme, Tips on building your site, and for those that want to keep up to date on new features, bug fixes and upcoming changes to the system, we have a Release Notes page that we keep up to date as we move Viviti forward.
If there are other things you want to know how to do with Viviti, let us know!
What is Viviti?
Viviti is a Content Management System and Website Builder that allows you to easily build your own dynamic website, either by selecting one of our premade themes or make your own theme simply by using html and css.
Everything is hosted for you and all management and creation is done in your browser.
Looking for an example? This blog is a Viviti website!
The Viviti Team
We use Viviti to maintain our personal blogs, so if you are curious to see what can be done with Viviti or just want to check out our blogs, here they are:
- Jerrett Taylor
Developer, Project Lead - Daniel Insley
Developer - Shawn Adrian
Designer
Disclaimer:
None of the opinions or entries expressed on the blogs above are representative of anything official from Viviti. That's what this blog is for :)
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