News & Updates

Announcments of new features, bug fixes, security alerts, and other updates.

New Theme Pack

posted on 1:04 PM, February 8, 2009
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The downloads area now has a theme pack download, containing eight classic graphic design themes from exsitewebware.com.  You can install these themes right into your websites, or use them as learning examples to inspect for ideas on creating your own themes.

3.6.1 Distros released

posted on 1:00 PM, February 8, 2009
The 3.6.1 (stable) kernel and plug-in distros are now available for download in the downloads area.  These are suitable for production website work.

The 3.6.1 plug-in distro includes a few new plug-ins, including:
  • Cron - scheduled task management
  • Fileserver - manage folder trees of downloadable files
  • LocationFinder - searchable directory of store locations
  • Login - dynamic generation of Login/Logout links and forms
  • PluginBuilder - developer tool to generate plugin code stubs
  • StoreAdm - manage persistent data
  • SysMsg - manage system messages in translation
  • Tags - keyword tagging for content
  • ToDo - display webmaster to-do list for CMS tasks that need attention

New Webtop Theme

posted on 5:05 PM, July 21, 2008
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ExSite 3.6 has a number of design refreshes, including a new webtop theme.  We are discarding our old blue theme for one that allows more colour.  (Okay, the theme itself is actually grey, but the icons are more colourful.)  That also means that many of the icons for the standard plug-ins have been updated as well.

Plug-ins are now displayed on the webtop, sorted by category.  There are four categories that are defined by default:
  • Content Management
  • Applications
  • System
  • Database
Plug-ins can optionally declare their category, but if they do not, they will be placed into "Applications".  For most non-standard plug-ins that is a reasonable choice, so in most cases no changes are needed to use this feature.

You can create your own categories and place your plug-ins into them, simply by having your plug-ins declare a category other than those above.

Control panels and stylesheets have been adjusted for this new look.  On your first visit to the new control panels, you may cache previous versions of these stylesheets, which will produce bad formatting.  A simple refresh of your browser should update everything.

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Announcements (PDF)

2009/Mar Upgrade Announcement
Summarizes many of the new features in ExSite 3.6.
ExsiteTM3.6.pdf (application/pdf, 581.1 K) posted on 5:22 PM, March 6, 2009
2008/Feb Upgrade Announcement
New features and updates in ExSite 3.5.3
ExsiteTM3.5.3.pdf (application/pdf, 1322.7 K) posted on 3:36 PM, February 14, 2008
2007/June Upgrade Announcement
Summary of major changes in ExSite 3.5
ExsiteUpgrade_June2007.pdf (application/pdf, 624.5 K) posted on 12:39 PM, February 13, 2008
2006/Sept Upgrade Announcement
Summary of new features and changes in ExSite 3.4.6
ExsiteUpgrade_Sept2006.pdf (application/pdf, 621.8 K) posted on 12:39 PM, February 13, 2008

Recent Articles

New Theme Pack posted on 1:04 PM, February 8, 2009 in News & Updates

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