New Quick.Cms 5.4 coming soon
One of the arguments we put to clients when offering Quick.Cms or Quick.Cart is that the scripts are constantly being improved by their authors at OpenSolution. This means they keep up with current trends and standards, and fixes are released that improve the scripts' performance, functionality and speed. This time the developers have prepared plenty of interesting solutions for us webmasters and designers that make building CMS websites easier.
What's new in Quick.Cms?
- Fixes for all known bugs
- WAI improvements (use of tabindex, legends in forms)
- Option to restrict admin panel logins to a specific IP -
- New "save and add another" button to speed up adding new content
- Option to set a custom character map when generating URLs
- Updated WYSIWYG editor – tinyMCE
- New link to preview a page while editing it
- A set of improvements to speed up admin tasks
- Clearer forms, with required fields marked
- Better protection and validation of submitted contact forms, comments etc.
- Option to hide the home page name in the page title
- An extra page field, e.g. for displaying a shortened page name in the menu
- Developer mode
- Option to hide a box's name and display only its content
- New displayBox() function to make website design easier
- Displaying selected page elements in a box, e.g. image, name, description
- In the "admins" add-on: option to temporarily disable an administrator, e.g. while on holiday. This improves site security
- In the "admins" add-on: notification when another administrator is in the admin panel at the same time
- In the "users" add-on: redirecting the user to a specific page after a successful login
- In the "users" add-on: hiding non-required fields in the new user registration form
- In the "users" add-on: option to send information / a message to a newly registered user's email
Conclusions?
Many improvements are planned for designers and developers, and a few important ones for users too – for example, the page preview link in the page editor. It is a simple but very effective solution: from the subpage editor you can immediately preview what you are editing without going back to the list of subpages. We added this option some time ago to several websites we built, and it proved very intuitive. We are all the more pleased that the developers took up our suggestion and included it in version 5.4. It shows that the company is open to solutions suggested by its partners and responds quickly.
The new version of Quick.Cms is due at the end of March. As announced by Daniel Hydzik of OpenSolution, Quick.Cart EXT will follow later, in April. Exact release dates for both versions are not yet known.
