This page lists changes that have been made recently, in date order, so that you can see at a glance what improvements have been made since you first learned to use the system.
Note that some features mentioned here may not be available to you, depending on your site's configuration.
If in doubt, contact your Portal Administrator for details.
Change Log
Date
Component
Description
2006-10-17
Site Admin
Truncate page TITLE feature allows the PAGETITLE to be reduced for WAI and search engine benefits
2006-10-04
E-Commerce
E-Commerce now supports Froogle data download option and FTP facility to google for automatic updates.
2006-09-18
Automatic Navigation
There is a new automatic navigation element, "Navigation (E-Commerce)" which automatically displays e-commerce categories in a navigation structure similar to automatic page navigation.
2006-09-14
E-Commerce
Extensions to the "Link to E-Commerce" element are now available which allow links to be made directly to a product (shows the product as it appears in the product listing), or to a randomly selected product from a list.
2006-09-14
E-Commerce
Automated downloadable product delivery - products can be made available for electronic download.
2006-08-14
E-Commerce
Shopping basket, Checkout and My Account E-Commerce links are now available as targets in all links drop down boxes.
2006-08-09
Duplicate Area
Users can now choose to Duplicate an area from the Copy Area menu.
2006-07-13
Mailing List
Mailing list signup field widths can now be set.
2006-07-10
E-Commerce
Arbitrary characters are now allowed in product codes.
2006-07-04
General
It is now possible to password-protect all on-the-fly pages, such as forums, e-commerce and databases.
2006-06-30
E-Commerce
Images and descriptions can now be added for categories in e-commerce.
2006-06-28
E-Commerce
Variant pictures for e-commerce products has been added, so that each variant can have a picture which changes as the variant is changed.
2006-06-20
Site Admin
New "custom headers" option available under Site Admin
2006-06-20
News
RSS news feeds added
2006-06-20
Automatic Navigation
Breadcrumb navigation option added
2006-06-15
User Admin
Allow portal admins to opt out of receiving new call and support notifications
2006-05-10
Database
Allow database fields to be shown as headings and sub-headings
2006-05-09
Search
Show a snippet of the matching page, and highlight the search terms in search results
2006-05-08
Database
Option to allow 'Title' database field to be present in the page tag.
2006-05-08
Database
Allow image alt text in databases by specifying it after the image filename (separated by a space).
2006-05-08
Database
Allow number of database results per page to be changed.
2006-05-08
Database
If no interface is selected for database display, all records will be displayed on the page where the database element has been added, this will be ordered by the field selected in the a-to-z database field and will be in ascending alphanumeric order.
2006-05-04
Auto Navigation
Option in auto-navigation element to only show headings in the current page, useful for creating an auto-updating list of anchor links
2006-04-27
E-Commerce
Facility to download order details as a spreadsheet
2006-04-25
Flash Object
New "flash object" element
2006-04-11
Site Admin
New "unapprove" and "approve" all pages option
2006-04-03
Site Admin
Users can now download their update logs as an Excel spreadsheet
2006-03-08
Site Admin, Search
"Did you mean?" search feature added under "Site Administration > Advanced Settings > Search enhancements and reporting > Search suggestions"
2006-03-06
E-Commerce
Added spreadsheet option "Max nav categories" for e-commerce
2006-02-27
E-Commerce
Order modification allowed in e-commerce for when customers change their minds or if items are unavailable
2006-02-17
Search
Search report facility for daily/weekly/monthly search reports
2006-02-09
Mailing List
Optional tickbox for signing up to a mailing list on web form element
2006-02-08
Link to File
Support for making XML files available for download
2006-02-08
Database
Database options added for a "must match" field
2006-02-02
Forum
Allow forum thread posters to be notified when a followup message is posted
2006-02-01
Forum
Added "signed email" field to forum comments. This is for forum admins to view so they can make private replies if necessary or if help has been requested
2006-01-30
Forum
Added "create account" link next to "log in" link on forums
2006-01-19
Forum
Added facility for unregistered forum users to set a "signed name", made the "post message" link more prominent
2005-12-08
E-Commerce
Now automatically adjusts stock levels when orders completed through PayPal
2005-12-07
All Text Elements
Added support for subscript and superscript in text
2005-12-07
E-Commerce
Added ecommerce product name to title tag of product pages
2005-12-07
Site Maps
Added links to forum pages in sitemaps.xml for google sitemaps
2005-12-07
Site Maps
Added links to database pages in sitemaps.xml for google sitemaps
2005-12-06
Site Maps
Added facility to automatically create a sitemaps.xml file for google sitemaps which updates when chages are made to the web site
2005-11-18
Site Admin
Added feature to insert ICRA labels on sites
2005-11-07
Spreadsheet
Feature to Allow HTML links in spreadsheet cells
2005-11-07
E-Commerce
New space available for HTML to be added to the order confirmation page, mainly for conversion tracking scripts
2005-10-27
E-Commerce
Feature to allow notes to be added to ecommerce orders in free-form text box
2005-10-14
Page Settings
Option available to show pages linking to a particular page
2005-08-31
Web Form, Web Survey
Added "placeholder text" field to web form and web survey elements
2005-08-25
Site Admin, Page Settings
Added more descriptive log information on site changes, page setting changes, element movements, and user modifications
2005-08-23
Mailing List
Added "send email" icon to list of mailing lists, so the user does not have to view user listing to send an email
2005-08-05
E-Commerce
Added stock level feature to e-commerce
2005-07-25
Image List, File List
Added "clean up" link for image and file listings, to remove unused images/files
2005-06-23
Database
Alternative display mode for Database element, "Compact" - allows search results to be displayed across table columns first then wrap on to the next row as required
2005-06-23
Database
Added "clickable" option to database fields so that any field in the search results can be clicked on to take users to the results page
2005-06-22
Edit Page Content
Added new features for copying and pasting elements
2005-06-22
Search
Option in search boxes to omit e-commerce products from the search
2005-06-10
Web Survey
Extra option for the web survey element to send notification when a new survey has been completed
2005-03-30
Mailing List
Feature added that automatically removes people from mailing lists if their sign-up confirmation e-mail bounces
2005-02-11
E-Commerce
New "Use price as weight" option to use the product prices rather than weight for shipping calculations
2005-02-02
E-Commerce
Added PayPal integration code for e-commerce payments. Enables site customers to pay for their products through PayPal, either by credit card or their exisitng PayPal account.
2004-12-22
Web Form, Web Survey
While editing, fields can now be moved up and down, inserted, and deleted
2004-12-08
News
The date shown can now be either the publication date OR the archival date, and the "no news items to show" text can now be changed
2004-11-19
General
Various changes to many elements, removing usage of now-deprecated HTML, and using CSS instead
2004-11-16
Link to File
Images and text can now link directly to files, as files are now listed as destinations for links
2004-11-09
General
Accessibility changes to the web form, web survey, mailing list, and search elements to aid WAI compliance
2004-11-08
Heading
Allow tags (, etc) in headings and subheadings
2004-11-08
General
The tag can now have a parameter which is the "title" (mouseover tooltip), eg Text
2004-11-05
Table
New "abbreviation" and "is heading?" table cell options, and overall table summary option, plus the option to use either HTML 4 or CSS to set the table parameters (more WAI compliance options)
2004-11-04
General
New tag , which denotes an abbreviation, eg ABBR - useful for WAI compliance
2004-10-18
General
Added new special "external" link target "TEXTONLY", which links to the text-only version of the current page
2004-10-13
E-Commerce
New customisable payment types - see "Payment Types" in new example spreadsheet
2004-09-28
Web Survey
Web survey element, like the web form but stores the responses in an Excel spreadsheet and doesn't email them anywhere
2004-09-13
Database
Images can now be used in a database by referring to them by name, and uploading a Zip of images like the E-Commerce images
2004-09-08
Image Pools
Multi-site image pools - a collection of images that can be used across multiple sites owned by the same user
2004-08-24
Web Form
The automatic signing-up of a web form submitter to the mailing list can now be disabled
2004-08-13
Site Admin
Site administrators with multiple sites can switch between them
2004-08-04
Images (general)
JPEG images now have any metadata stripped before they are stored, to prevent problems with Internet Explorer failing to load images saved from Adobe Photoshop
2004-05-10
Mailing List
Email addresses that do not work (that bounce when a mailshot is sent) are now automatically removed from the mailing list
2004-04-16
Banners
Added banner management system
2004-04-05
E-Commerce
If the card type is "Switch", the issue number is now mandatory
2004-03-10
Table
New options for table height, outer border width, and outer border colour
2004-02-25
Mailing List
Mailshots can now be sent out in HTML
2004-02-12
Web Form
New field type to allow a file to be attached to a web form when filling it in
2004-02-11
Web Form
New field types "person's name" and "person's email address"
2004-01-30
Table
The colour of a cell can be set using the colour picker link, which pops up a new window full of colours to choose from
2004-01-29
Page Listing
Multiple images can be uploaded at once if they are put in a Zip file and uploaded to the image list; multiple files or images can now be deleted at once
2004-01-21
Portal Admin
Sites can now be suspended, as well as deleted outright
2004-01-15
E-Commerce
If there are 30 or more other categories at the same level in the shop, do not show them, to reduce on-screen clutter
2004-01-09
E-Commerce
A single variant value of !CUSTOM gives a user-editable text box for the product, eg for custom messages on products
2004-01-09
General
Out-of-order tags are automatically reordered, and any tags left open are automatically closed
2004-01-08
E-Commerce
Unicode conversion is now done, meaning that non-English text (eg German accented characters) can be used
2004-01-07
Image (rollover)
Added new "Image (rollover)" element type - like "Image", but you can also specify an image to show when the mouse is over the image
2004-01-07
Link to File
The "link to file" element now has an option to automatically show the size of the linked file
2003-11-26
Database
Added colour/size/font selection to database fields
2003-11-25
Image (random)
New element type "Image (random)", just like the Image element but allows you to choose multiple images; when the page is loaded, one will be picked at random each time
2003-11-18
Heading
Added colour/size/font changing to headings and subheadings, not just text
2003-11-17
Page Listing
Added "delete multiple pages at once" option to the page listing
2003-10-13
Site Admin
Added translation table (under Site Admin), such that all strings in the E-Commerce system can be changed ("add to basket", "products", "more information" - that sort of thing)
2003-09-25
Database
Per-user editing, such that a user's editable pages can be marked as "No pages, Database alteration only" - they can then alter the content of all databases on the site, but all they can do is add or replace the rows they themselves put there
2003-08-01
News
Added "Sites/sections to show" option to news ticker element, so individual sections can be included or excluded
2003-07-22
Quiz
New "Quiz (pre-set)" element, which is just like the Quiz element except you don't have to upload any questions - it uses our existing quiz question database
2003-07-22
Page Settings
New "Restrictions" setting, allowing a page to disable right-clicking, text selection, and printing
2003-07-15
Mailing List
New virtual mailing list "Web Form Enquiries" - anyone who submits a web form that contains an "Email" and "Name" field is added to this mailing list if they agree to it
2003-07-14
Page Settings
On the Page Settings screen, the "Navigation Subcategory" setting gives a drop-down list of existing categories as well as a text box for entering new category names into, instead of just giving the user a text box
2003-07-03
User Admin
New option in user settings, "No pages, e-commerce orders only" which prevents that user from doing anything other than process e-commerce orders - this means that a normal user (not site admin) can be allowed to process e-commerce orders
2003-07-02
Mailing List
Mailing lists enabled
2003-06-27
Site Admin
Additions, removals, and modifications to elements, pages, databases, forums, e-commerce, and sites are now all logged in a system log that can be accessed by clicking a link at the bottom of the page settings and site settings pages
2003-06-10
General
New settings in text elements to set font colour, size, and font family
2003-06-10
Straw Poll
Straw poll results can now be reset
2003-05-30
Page Settings
New option to upload images in title bar
2003-05-12
News
News listing elements have new "Heading type" option which allows the size of the headings to be selected
2003-05-12
Page Settings
New option in page settings to hide the title
2003-05-10
Database
Database system (on the main menu, if enabled for a site) - an Excel spreadsheet can be uploaded and used as a data source for the "database" element, which allows searching, browsing by category, and A-to-Z listings
2003-05-07
Straw Poll
Extra features (bar graphs etc) for the straw poll element
2003-04-28
Straw Poll
New "straw poll" element that allows simple polls of opinion to be taken
2003-04-15
News
News system added - page settings now have an extra 4 options: is it a news item, and if so, what are the publish, archive, and removal dates. These work together with the new "news" element
2003-04-11
Search
The search box can now have an image for a submit button
2003-04-11
Page Listing
New option to "list all external links", which shows all of the links to external sites, and where they appear. The same option is also present on the portal admin screen, and lists all external links made from that portal
2003-04-04
Search
New search element feature allowing the search be restricted to only those pages under a particular category
2003-04-02
Search
New "include 'hidden' pages" option in site search element, which when switched on will allow the search to also search in pages which are marked as hidden
2003-04-02
Search
New "text after search" option in search element - text can be entered containing tags, links, and so on, and it will be shown at the bottom of the search results
2003-04-01
Quiz
New "quiz" element, for an interactive online quiz
2003-03-31
Site Map
New element, "Site Map", which lists all of the (non-hidden, approved) pages on the site, just like automatic navigation but with all the sub-trees expanded
2003-03-27
General
New tag , which draws text with a line through it
2003-03-27
Counter
New "counter" element, which can be used as a page hit counter
2003-03-27
Page Listing
It is no longer possible to delete a page if it is linked to or if other pages are using the Duplicate Area element to duplicate areas from it.
2003-03-21
Navigation (manual)
New custom navigation option in the manual navigation, for advanced users only
2003-03-18
E-Commerce
New option of "instant" links in the E-Commerce element, works in the same way as the "instant" forum links
2003-03-14
Spreadsheet
Optionally use American date format in the spreadsheet element - by default dates are converted to UK format (m/d/yy becomes d/m/yy) but American site owners can turn this behaviour off using a new spreadsheet element option
2003-03-14
General
Advanced option to "skip paragraph tag" added to many elements - this stops the enclosing
...
tags being generated and can be useful when attempting to make images, etc align in a table
2003-03-14
E-Commerce
The VAT content of orders is shown next to the total (VAT-inclusive) cost of each order in the order listings in the E-Commerce menu
2003-03-14
Page Settings
New "Edit" link next to each "Category:" marker in the page listing, allowing categories to be renamed
2003-03-03
Password Groups
If a page is protected by a password group, the password group name is shown in the page listing
2003-02-27
Navigation (automatic)
Added bulleted list and table-based automatic navigation types. NB table-based navigation is for advanced users only.
Added "sub-heading" style for E-Commerce and forum links
2003-02-11
Web Form
Allow formatting tags (BOLD, ITALIC, etc) in form explanatory / field name text and thankyou text
2003-02-11
Web Form
Allow ; (semicolon) as well as , (comma) as an email address list item separator
2003-02-11
Web Form
Allow the width of a feedback form to be specified (the table width)
2003-02-11
E-Commerce
New "Delivery Address" option (on the "options" sheet - see new example spreadsheet) which, when disabled, takes away the option for a customer to enter a delivery address different to the cardholder address
2003-02-07
E-Commerce
New option to configure the maximum age of old orders
2003-01-31
List (ordered)
Added ordered list type (numeric, alphabetic, etc) and starting offset options to the numbered list