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DESCRIPTION
Big Medium is a website editor (or "web content management system") that lets you manage entire websites from your browser.

For web designers, Big Medium offers design freedom and doesn't impose cookie-cutter layouts. If you bring basic to intermediate HTML/CSS know-how, Big Medium can manage just about any design you throw at it.

For editors and businesspeople, no HTML knowledge is required. Enter your text, images, podcasts and document downloads into Big Medium's editor, and the software automagically adds the necessary links and pages to your site.

WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.0.2:

This update adds WYSIWYG rich-text editing for Safari, provides compatibility fixes for Firefox 3, and offers a slew of other changes and bug fixes:

New features

  • Big Medium's WYSIWYG rich-text editor is now available in Safari 3.0 and later, in addition to other previously supported browsers.
  • The rich-text editor now offers a full-screen mode and also a "show blocks" mode to review the content's HTML block elements while still editing in rich-text mode.
  • Added option to the "Images" screen of sites' HTML preferences to enable/disable image enlargement for non-gallery images for the entire site or for individual sections.
  • Added a new link-sorting criterion, "first published," to allow earliest-first sorting by publication date.
  • Added "Check for update" option in the "Settings" menu of the Big Medium control panel so that you can quickly find out if there's a new version of Big Medium available.
Changes
  • Rich-text editor dialogs now open in lightbox-style windows instead of pop-ups. Looks nicer, works faster.
  • Transitions between slideshow images are now much faster; the animation resolves more quickly, and height and width are adjusted simultaneously.
  • The rich-text editor now has a separate "blockquote" button to distinguish quotes from simple indentation.
  • In the navigation widgets, sections containing subnavigation menus now receive the "bmn_parent" class and may be styled separately.
  • Search results no longer automatically direct you to the URL if there's just one search result, if that URL is an external link or a document (this redirect still occurs when it's an internal link).
  • E-mail alerts for new comments now include the site name in the subject and intro text.
  • Tab labels are more descriptive in the dialog for attaching authors, images, documents, etc. to content. Instead of just "New" and "Library," the tabs now say "New image" and "Image library," for example.
  • When adding an author to a page, the "add author" dialog now opens in the "People library" tab instead of the "New person" tab.
  • Image numbers in gallery slideshows no longer use English, in order to be more internationally friendly. Instead of "Image 2 of 10," for example, it displays "2/10".
  • Added an "atom:link" tag to RSS feeds to make the feeds easier to cache and improve portability.
  • The "include related links with link text" option for the links widget now appears in the "Widget: links" panel instead of the "General" panel of the "Links" HTML preferences.
  • Big Medium now accepts UNC-format filepaths for Windows servers.
  • During Big Medium server setup, the setup wizard now requires that you use the same domain name for both the "bmadmin" and "moxiebin" URLs.
Bug fixes
  • Fixed bug that prevented the WYSIWYG CSS style editor from working in Firefox 3.
  • Fixed bug that prevented the rich-text editor's "paste from word" feature from working in Firefox 3.
  • Fixed bug that could cause a crashing error in some page-builds, particularly for search result pages, in servers running Perl 5.8.0.
  • Fixed bug that prevented some Windows servers from saving data files.
  • Fixed bug that displayed the "add a comment" link on pages that have comments but where comments are closed. (For pages that already have comments when you upgrade to this version, the link will still be displayed until a comment is added, deleted or edited on the page.)
  • Fixed several bugs related to opening new windows when the "new windows" option is selected for external links:
  • New window now opens for authorlink, spotlightimage and bigmedium widgets, as well as links in comments and search results, when appropriate.
  • Fixed bug that caused all new-window links to fail to open a new window when the Big Medium-powered site was in a window that had itself been opened for a new-window link. (Big Medium always tries to use the same target window to open external links. However, when a Big Medium site was opened in that window, the target window was not changed to another window, so the links incorrectly opened in the same window as the Big Medium site.)
  • New windows are now properly opened for aliased sections in all of Big Medium's navigation widgets.
  • Fixed bug under Internet Explorer 6 that could cause JavaScript errors when opening a link in a separate window when that window already has a page from another website domain open.
  • If a new window is blocked by a pop-up blocker, Big Medium will still try to open the window via the browser's default target behavior.
  • Fixed bug that prevented link images for link pages from opening in a new page even when the individual link is specifically set to open in a new window.
  • Fixed bug that caused the edit screen in some browsers, notably Internet Explorer, to break when pullquotes, author blurbs or media captions included HTML forms. The edit screen no longer previews these text elements if they contain HTML forms or scripts.
  • In the base styles for public sites, added a workaround for a Mozilla bug that adds borders to hidden fields when you apply styles to the "input" css selector.
  • Fixed bug that could cause extra space to appear at the top of the navigation widget in Internet Explorer.
  • Fixed bug in image enlargement that could cause Safari to open enlarged images in the incorrect size.
  • Fixed bug in captions of enlarged images under Internet Explorer, which caused apostrophes to display incorrectly.
  • Fixed bug under Internet Explorer that prevented the URL from appearing as a tooltip for hotlinked images.
  • Fixed bug that prevented custom translations of Big Medium's JavaScript text from applying changes to the "high/low priority" slider text and the mini-library "Find" text.
  • Fixed bug that caused field-validation error messages to be badly formatted for directory path fields.
  • Fixed formatting problem (too many line breaks) in the help text for the server path fields in the Big Medium setup wizard.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.


Developer:Global Moxie, LLC
Downloads:452
  - Version d/l:161
Development:HTML
License:Demo
Date:19 Jun 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$185.00
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