node1 news
Interested in what's happening with Node1? This is the page to get the latest inside scoop on what's going to be happening as well as seeing what changes are being made to the CMS as we continue to shape it into a better product.
Planned Developments
Auto-deployment for different article types - September 2005
The more deployments of node1 we make, the more we see commonality amongst the sorts of things that site owners are interested in capturing. So we're looking at doing well-specced plans for each different content type and then creating an auto-deploy wizard to allow a site owner to quickly and easily add a new feature to their website. Initially on the cards are as follows:
- General articles
- FAQ flat
- FAQ directory
- Link directory
- Property listings
- Product listings
- Bibliography
- Diary / Blog
SEO monitoring - October 2005
We are looking at ways of taking out the tedium of doing manual search engine monitoring and are currently planning a suite of utilities aimed at monitoring SEO activities and making recommendations for further improvements to SEO initiatives. Initially we aim to provide the following:
- Google PageRank monitoring, on a monthly basis, including the ability to monitor PageRank across multiple pages
- Spider representation - provide a glimpse of what the search engines probably are seeing
- Hit rate statistics for every page in Node1
- Title and meta tag debugger
- XHTML validator - multiple page submission
- Incoming link calculator
- Tag:content ratio calculation
- Determine keyword searches performed by users to find your pages
- Monitor Google rank based on keyword phrase
Upgrades Diary
28 October 2005
- New Feature: This version implements the module manager, a powerful, centralised deployment tool for modules and data types
- Improvement: CMS visual design has been redesigned
- Improvement: Major usability changes to CMS to reduce the number of clicks required
- Improvement: URL rewriter has been updated, system now generates Yahoo friendly URLs in a slightly different format (/n1/home.1.html instead of /home/1/), Yahoo strips trailing slash
- New Feature: SEO Manager (basic version) has been included in this release
- New Feature: {img ref} tag has new attribute 'thumb' for rendering thumbnail images
- Bug Fix: Image Editor now supports unique image referencing scheme as well as unique naming scheme - each image uploaded to system is given unique name and reference if either of these already exist
- New Feature: Image editor now supports thumbnail and auto-resizing based on image category
- Improvement: Image editor now shows images in gallery style (interface improvement)
16th July 2005
- New Feature: Added support for multiple image uploads (edit article)
- Bug Fix: {img ref} tag now displays 'no image' if it cannot find image
15th July 2005
- New Feature: Added support for sort ordering in articles list (edit view)
- Rationalisation: Stylesheet for CMS is centralised into one file instead of on a per-site basis.
- New Feature: Ability to handle invalid article calls.
- Bug Fix: Deleting articles problem (delete articles didn't correctly delete entry in n1_article_index
- Bug Fix: Sort order in components on add article list
