Our latest update is now live! We dubbed it our "Polish Update" as it mostly focuses on adding polish to existing features on the site.
Site Admin UpdatesEvery page of the Site Admin received some UI updates, to make them more clear and easier to use. The Races and Classes which was previously under the Settings tab got moved to its own tab, and each page was refactored to make better use of the side panel. We won't go through all the changes here, but the page which changed the most we want to cover in more detail: the Layout tab
Site Admin - Layout TabThe Layout tab is where you add side and homepage blocks to your site, and it has grown quite a bit since we first launched, now containing more than 50 different blocks you can add. To make the UI more user friendly with all these new blocks we have grouped them up and added them to the side panel:
So while we have 7 different DKP side blocks, they are all grouped together and shown as simply DKP on the side panel. If you click the DKP block, you then get the option of which view you want to add:
And if a block has no extra options, it is simply added to your layout without showing the popup, making the Layout tab quicker and easier to work with =)
New Comments Block!A new block is now available to be added to your site, the comments block! It will show by default the comments from all of your content (images, videos, journals, events, raids, raid items);
*note: it will not show comments from guild applications or groups. You can also configure the comments block to only show comments for certain content (such as just images, or just videos).
New View for Images Side BlockThe images side block now has a new view "Latest Images", which will show the last 5 images added to your site with thumbnails:
Improved Views for Videos BlocksThe videos blocks were updated to match the style of the new latest images block, and include small thumbnails of the videos
Instant, HTML emailsPreviously our mail server only sent out mail once a minute, meaning if you did a password reset you had to wait up to a minute to receive it; and the email was in plain text. Email is now sent out instantly, and if your mail client supports it, it will come as an HTML email with some pretty formatting =)
Focus ImprovementsWe have gone through the site and made focus improvements everywhere we felt they would be helpful. For example when you click on "New Forum Thread", when the popup form is displayed, the subject field will now have focus so you can just start typing, rather then having to click it first. We have gone through all the popup forms and added focus to the first field you would type in, so this should make it a little quicker to use =) Some focus improvements were also added elsewhere on the site, for exampe after you shout in the shoutbox now, the focus is set back to the new shout field, so you can shout again if you like without having to click there first.
Popup Form Usability ImprovementsAlong with the focus improvements we have done some usability improvements to the popup form also. An example of this improvement is previously after you added a new forum thread the popup box at the bottom would say "New Thread Added; click here to add a new one or here to close"; generally this was un-necessary, after you add a new forum thread you typically do not want to add another one right away, and in most cases you want to check your forum thread to ensure it is correct, so after you add a forumthread now you are simply redirected to it.
