All entries for Tuesday 09 January 2007

New Features

There has been a major new release of BlogBuilder this morning with a few new important features that users may be interested in.

Rich Text Editing

Users of SiteBuilder2 may be familiar with the JScript editor that is used to edit SiteBuilder pages, called TinyMCE. This editor has now been implemented into Warwick Blogs to allow users to create entries in a much more user friendly way than the current Textile2 editor.

As this is a new feature and has been generally untested, this is turned off by default. To turn it on, click "Admin" in the top right hand corner of your blog's homepage, then click "Settings", and finally change the setting of "Default editor for creating new entries" to WYSIWYG Editor. All new entries that you create will then use the new editor (entries created in the WYSIWYG Editor can only be edited in the WYSIWYG editor, and the same goes for the Textile2 editor).

Notable advantages of using the WYSIWYG Editor:

• You can use keyboard shortcuts and formatting buttons similar to most word processors
• There is a spell-check button that allows you to check the spelling on your entry
• There are easy buttons to allow you to embed images (both in your gallery or from your hard drive) and videos

Google Analytics

One of our most requested features is to provide statistics for users' blogs - how many people are reading the blog, where are they coming from, which entries are most popular. Rather than create a fully featured stats package from scratch, we decided to make it easy to use Google Analytics to monitor your blog.

For information on how to use this, please refer to this FAQ.

Other updates

There have been a number of other minor bug fixes and improvements, including:

• The photo editor has been upgraded to the latest version, with improved red-eye reduction and other improvements to features
  
• Bugs related to posting trackbacks have been resolved
• The "Create entry" page should now load faster than before (we realise it took a very long time sometimes)

As always, any comments, bug reports or notes can be posted on this blog entry or on the Blogs Forum.

Mathew Mannion : 09 Jan 2007 10:56 |  Tags: BlogBuilder Update |  Comments (20) |  Close comments |  Report a problem