We’ve not squashed as many bugs this week as we’ve been working on adding in the new Template Editor, but this is the way software developments goes sometimes. It ebbs and flows between fixing things and adding things. Next week will be more of a bug fix release!
Anyway, this dev diary covers the powerful new Template Editor, and while the UI is not 100% finished, it works great and you can play around with it in the latest beta — I might also published a video later in the week that covers the new Text and Image Component, so be sure to look out for that.
I’ve included the scripts and project featured in Today’s video below so you can follow along if you’d like.
Just a suggestion that occurred to me since one of your target markets is non-professional users. Pre populate the Resources pane with some basic folders to assist with resource organization. For example: graphics, scripts, etc.
I think this will make the system a little bit more usable for the beginners.
Please don’t remove the ability to edit and add/delete folders!
Not just powerful and useful, it’s also a much clearer and more organized implementation than Classic. Far easier to get a hold of when users are ready for this.
We’ll give this some thought, it might be that we have this kind of setup on some of the pre-built template sites you’ll be able to choose on startup when Element finally ships.
Haha, don’t worry, we won’t do that, we want Elements to ALWAYS be flexible and powerful
Is it (or will it be) possible to have more than one template for a site? For instance, a generic page template, a blog specific template (when the blogging feature is ready), and a ‘product’ template page. I realize that last one could be done using globals, but I can also see times where having a product specific template could be useful (for instance landing pages, support, etc).
That looks awesome, so cool to see this template function open up from classic, great demo on the js script! Any chance there might be a solution built in for custom 404 pages added into elements?
Hmm, what functionality do you need, you can easily built a 404 page. It’s often just a case of redirecting the web server to the correct place, either in something like the CPanel, or in the htaccess file…
