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Software update brings great new features

27th June 2008 by René Lasseron

We have updated the Saurus CMS software used to run Sauropol sites to version 4.5.3 which brings a list of features including:

• There’s now a new content template called Blog which lets you create, well obviously, a blog. It features article postings, comments, listing of latest posts, yearly/monthly archive and RSS feed.
• There’s several enhancements in image gallery:
  - You can now add articles to the album listing page.
  - The thumbnail view displays album title and description, also each image now displays its name.
  - And it is now possible to upload new images to album right from the page, also delete and edit images.
• Public view of the site now uses human-friendly URL-s which are automatically generated in text editor and section editor once you create new content. Click on the URL below title fields in these popups to change the value.
• Captcha protection has been turned on to protect comments from being posted by robots.
• You can output any section as RSS by adding parameter op=rss to the URL. Eg. site.sauropol.com/news/?op=rss or site.sauropol.com/?id=123&op=rss.
• Dialog used to change site design has been greatly simplified – changing a template now requires less steps and refreshes the page as expected. It is also now possible to download the design package as a zip file, edit the contents and upload your edits to change the appearance and behaviour of your site.
• Section editor has been redesigned to initially hide more advanced settings.
• Filemanger’s thumbnail view now displays file names.
• Compatibility with Firefox 3 has been greatly enhanced.

This update concerns both new and existing sites.