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SiteStudio Latest Features Reference

SiteStudio 1.8

New Features (since 1.8 Beta):

Added new user skin common for all Parallels products.
Added MS IE 8 support in Rich Editor
Guestbook plugin is improved with possibility to input longer feedbacks

SiteStudio 1.8 Beta

New Features:

Added possibility to add or remove custom designs for SiteStudio owners/admins
All design templates made W3C compatible
Added "Choose Skin" mechanism for SiteStudio interface with 2 new skins
Added possibility to install SiteStudio updates/patches via Admin Panel
Created Gallery of updated files, similar to Picture Gallery
Enhanced settings screen: added meta title and new color picker for style-colors selection
Introduced SiteStudio installation wizard for Windows (instead of a zip file with install.bat script)

More about 1.8 Beta features

hsphere-sitestudio-1.7.1rc1-52

hsphere-sitestudio package update includes Security Patch and fixes in 2 templates, excludes issue with published images in demo mode.

hsphere-sitestudio-1.7.1rc1-41

hsphere-sitestudio package update excludes vulnerability in SiteStudio that could be used for sending spam mail.

SiteStudio 1.7.1 RC 1

Important: To update to 1.7.1 RC1, you should have SiteStudio 1.7.1 Beta.

New Features:

Added 19 new designs
Introduced localization for plugins
Changed online demo policy: instead of turning it off, it's now prompted during the installation

For H-Sphere integrated SiteStudio, the hsphere-sitestudio-1.7.1rc1-40 package is included into H-Sphere system packages update.

SiteStudio 1.7.1 Beta

New Features and bugfixes

Autoupdate: the possibility for SS owners to download and update SiteStudio with new packages (designs, patches, etc.) from SS Admin Panel
20 new designs, including a couple of designs for real estate business
Improved File Uploader to behave like Image Uploader: now it is possible to upload up to 5 files at once
Fixed minor issues with some flash splashes, flash photo players and Rich Editor

Notes:
- H-Sphere users will get this update when it is included into H-Sphere version

SiteStudio 1.7 Final

The most significant changes since 1.6:

Added 19 new designs
Added Slideshow and Photo player Flash pages
Added RTL languages and UTF-8 support
Rich Editor is now available in Mozilla browsers including FireFox
Added multiple home directories support for CPanel integration
Simplified localization support
Improved ImageMaker caching strategy
Added support for java 1.5.x
Fixed Load/Save site feature: site names now can use special chars (like %, #, $, space)
Fixed Images Upload: file/dir names now can use special chars (like %, #, $, space)

More about 1.7 Final features

SiteStudio 1.7RC2

Added 10 new designs
Rich Editor is now available in Mozilla browsers including FireFox
Added multiple home directories support for CPanel integration
Simplified localization support
About 60 another minor fixes and improvements

SiteStudio 1.7RC1

Added RTL languages support
Added 9 new designs
Added Slideshow and Photo player Flash pages
Fixed Marquee feature for Mozilla-family browsers. Added new Marquee settings
Fixed Special Effects for Mozilla-family browsers
Improved ImageMaker caching strategy
Fixed License counting for gone users in Admin panel
Added UTF-8 support
Fixed Load/Save site feature: site names now can use special chars (like %, #, $, space)
Fixed Images Upload: file/dir names now can use special chars (like %, #, $, space)
Fixed minor issues with localization ability
Added support for java 1.5.x

SiteStudio 1.6 Patch 2
(for SiteStudio 1.6 Final and higher)

Note: H-Sphere owners will get SiteStudio updated with H-Sphere 2.4.2 Patch 5.

Included SiteStudio 1.6 Security Update
Improved ImageMaker caching strategy
Made a series of minor bugfixes in different templates and Rich Editor

SiteStudio 1.6 Security Update

(Update Instructions)

Important:
Do not update from SiteStudio 1.6RC3 or earlier versions, only from SiteStudio 1.6 Final or 1.6 Patch 1.

This security update for SiteStudio 1.6 Final and 1.6 Patch 1 fixes XSS vulnerability in SiteStudio guest book.

SiteStudio 1.6 Patch 1

(Update Instructions)

Important:

This patch is recommended for the owners of SiteStudio 1.6 Final.

Fixed insignificant javascript error on SiteStudio Administration Panel
Fixed problems with paste feature in Rich Editor

SiteStudio 1.6 Final

Added new designs to the Business category:
High Tech, Urban Philosophy, Business Time, Metallic, Business Circles, Digital World, Glassy, Fresh Look
Added two new Flash themes to the FlashSplash page in the business category with possibility to add JPEG images and sounds in the Flash theme of the FlashSplash pages in old-style business category
Added possibility to change font size and face for menu buttons in all designs, and for certain layouts - title font and header fonts in the SETTINGS tab.

SiteStudio 1.6 RC3

Note: H-Sphere owners will get SiteStudio updated with the H-Sphere Tomcat4 update.

Advanced full screen text/HTML Rich Editor (MS Word like browser-based text editor, for Internet Exlorer for Windows® users only)
Advanced easy-to-use settings for Image Gallery
New version of Image Uploader and Thumbnail Generator
Website easy recovery after site URL change (e.g. content move under H-Sphere)—by clicking <Refresh Images> button on the Site Setings page
New designs and bugfixes in the old designs

ONLY for stand-alone SiteStudio:

Multiple admins (means: now you can create resellers!) in the SiteStudio Admin Panel
Support for Tomcat 4
Free on-line demo installation included (provide it to your potential users)

Read more about SiteStudio 1.6RC3 features

SiteStudio 1.6 RC2

Add-A-Cart Catalog page added
Setting up own reseller account for Add-A-Cart page
Disabling Add-A-Cart page
Your own HTML page in the Small Bussines category
Several of new templates designed for small bussines category
Help/User manual updated
Defining your own TTF fonts for imaker to improve international language support
Robots.txt file implemented
Fixed "Generic error" page after removing page in SiteStudio

More about RC3 features

SiteStudio 1.6 RC1

Features and Improvements:

Rich editor (for Internet Explorer users only)
Sub-pages on the generic page
Invisible pages (pages not linked to site navigation menu)
Multi-language support (English/Russian)
New designs in personal and bussines categories