Templates & Rendering Scripts
- Photo Galleries are now based on a template instead of a script/custom property applied to a channel, making it much easier to manage large galleries.
- The FAQ rendering script automatically generates a named-anchor list of the questions at the top of each page.It will also display a default posting above the generated list of questions, if one exists.
- Sub-sites can now have "rotating" Top Left Nav and Top Right Nav images! Yes, we heard you!
- Sub-sites can now have their very own News Posting module for hot items and announcements.
- The famous List Channels & Postings Rendering Script is full of new features!
- The new script defaults to an alpha sort, yet it can also be set to sort by Posting Start Date, or even be manually overridden to sort using the Edit Console's sort order.
- The script will display a blurb from a Redirect w/ Blurb posting.
- The number of columns that the list should be formatted in can be specified using a custom property.
- Several areas of the College's site will be piloting the Content Feeds module, which allows for users to "subscribe" to a channel's content. Many of you may recognize this as RSS.
- Several helpful modifications to the Redirect w/ Blurb template have been made.
- Finally, there are upgraded 'Contact Us' and 'Sortable' rendering scripts for use by any sub-site.
Edit Console / Web Editing Interface
- Spell Check works!
- Find & Replace works!
- Pasting no longer requires Notepad to get rid of pesky formatting!
- Paste directly from MS Word
- Paste as Plain Text
- Paste as HTML
Click Save and the Content Cleaner comes to the rescue!
- Multiple levels of Undo & Redo!
- Extended Table Manager!
- The Image Manager & Document Manager now have the ability to upload/delete items from within these interfaces.
- The Hyperlink Manager provides a drop down list of existing anchor points within a posting, handy for postings that contain large anchored lists!
- Find a new Insert Symbol button on the editing toolbar for adding things like ©, ½., ÷, etc.!
- Content Cleaner v3.1 removes formatting that is not specified in the College's global style guide.
- 404 email notifications can be delivered to Content Providers upon request. Know about broken links on your sub-site as users discover them, very handy for large sub-sites with many channels/postings.
If you have technical questions about any of this new functionality, please do not hesitate to contact Web Services. We are always happy to help folks adjust to the changes that occur through the evolution of Middlebury College's Web sites.