New Features Highlighted
User Experience Features
Properties
Each item at the site now can have it's own properties. Properties allow us to give more accurate information about each item. For example for extensions we now can display which Dreamweaver versions they are build for, which browsers they are compatible with, what type of extension it is, which server model etc etc. We think that this was a necessary improvement with all the current versions of Dreamweaver and UltraDev.
Improved Search Feature
When searching in v1 you could only search on keyword, which was nice but far from good enough. In the next release searches can be done much more efficient: you can specify which category to search on, and if that category has properties defined for it you can also search on those specific property. So right now it's very easy to search "all extensions for Dreamweaver MX that support the ASP/VBScript language and are written by Waldo" for example.
Related Content Hints
For specific content (most of the time extensions and tutorials) we give Related Content Hints. For example when you are at the Pure Asp Upload detail page (www.udzone.com/go?1622) we automatically inform you upon related extensions (in this case other extensions like the Pure Upload ones) and other stuff created by that author. This should improve the user experience at the site.
Author Info Footer
See who the contributors at the zones are!
We have enhanced the software at out zones again. Now on each posted article you can see the author’s photo and short biography.
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Contributors Pages
See all the posts of one author – the Contributor Page
By clicking on the name of the author or on the link “See All Contributions from …” you will get to see an extended Contributor Page.
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Printer Friendly Pages
Each tutorial (and I think also the other items) now has a printer friendly version. Simply click the Print button in the subheader to open that printer friendly page.Small Improvements & Bugfixes
Lots of small issues have been solved and small improvements have been made.
Content Contributer Features
MXP Reader
UDzone.com is the first third party site to read the contents of your MXP when you upload it! This is something we are really proud of! This means that we can collect much more usefull data regarding the extension, but even better: you don't need to type them over yourself. Everything is being read out of the MXP on the fly and put in the properties box: description, UI access, required product, type of extension etc etc.
Upload Agreement
We still have to write this one, but we do support an upload agreement right now. Some contributers requested this and so we did it. Any ideas of what should be in the agreement are welcomed.
Related Content Hints
See above. The advantage is that your extensions get even more exposure, which can be a real advantage for commercial extensions too!
Of course we've still got all the features we had before.
PS: George has been working very hard on this release. Feel free to give him several compliments because of his superb coding skills. This time it was easy for me... I had my wish list ready for months already ;-) Thanks for the great work George!
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