The editor panel we'd previously used to edit page and posting content in Ecclesiact was FCK Editor 2.5.b - and it began showing some serious problems when used with Internet Explorer 9, the most serious being an inability to place ECL, audio, video and YouTube tags in the intended location, and a tendency to make 'more' tags disappear without a trace.

Development of FCK Editor seems to have been abandoned now and the makers have started from scratch with a new product called CK Editor. Now that product is stable enough to use in production we've reprogrammed all of our special customized plugins (ECL, Audio, Video and YouTube tag handlers) and packaged it with the latest build.

One very welcome side-effect of the new upgrade (as we have it configured) is that this new editor makes a much better job of formatting HTML content to show 'nesting' of HTML tags. This means that those of you who edit your own page layouts will have a much easier time when working in design mode. Another nice touch is the use of 'floating panel' dialogs for editing tag properties - much less likely to be blocked by over-zealous 'popup blockers'. There's a new 'spell-check as you type' system included, and you should also experience much faster loading with the system from now on.

Although we've gone to great effort to minimise the visual changes you'll encounter using the new editor we have taken this opportunity to apply some much-needed standardization for the toolbar icon postions so that you should have a more consistent experience when working with the various screens in the system.

Please let us have your feedback about this new feature.

Colours can be set in the control panel for the Breadcrumbs component to Turin fancy styling on or off and to set colours for the shaded areas, 'home' icon and text both normally and when the mouse is positioned over the control.

If you have automatic text resizing enabled for you site, this newly enhanced control works with that too. Here's how the control renders normally along with a couple of examples showing 'enhanced' mode:

For a discussion on this see this posting at the God-bit discussion forum.

The new site sports all kinds of new features like activity tracking to enable a 'most emailed','most viewed' and 'most commented' panel, a category tabber like the one that now adorns our homepage and a category stacker that arranges articles in a vertical stack, n-per category.

The new look for this site was inspired by the Revolution Theme for Wordpress.
Although the Revolution Theme itself is not software compatible with our system, a full package licence has been obtained by the customer in recognition of the inspiration which that theme provided for this screen layout.