XMLRPC updated to the latest version because of the vulnerabilities.
 

Netdoc look and feel updated in 1.62. More eye candy... ;-)

Firefox is a trademark of the Mozilla Foundation.

I'm very happy to announce that Netdoc 1.6 has a full Firefox support. It also turned out very well – I was surprised to see how good Firefox actually is, for a developer, and overall. The wysiwyg editor is now a tad better with Firefox than it is with Internet Explorer, since FF is just a tad better browser than IE. I personally changed my default editor as Firefox, as it seems that there are very few reasons not to change.

Next, Safari...?

Speed optimizations in Netdoc GUI.

Lots of fine improvements!

Oh boy, it just keeps getting better and better.

New project type: filearea, for archiving files or providing a download area.

One use case that has been very succesful at PC Users of Finland organization, is to create documents collaboratively on the site, then archive them as encrypted PDFs, which Netdoc is able to generate automatically.

Feeds revisited.

Netdoc 1.510 employs our SlashdotProof technology to prevent sites running on Netdoc suffering from the Slashdot effect. And generally the server should be able to handle the load more effectively.

If there are large files being downloaded, that may still affect adversely for the overall performance.

A few nasty installation bugs have been fixed in this release. If you managed to install 1.5 you are good to go, but if not, this might help.

One milestone reached again!

Again, there are a lot of improvements, mainly in the editor this time. One of the biggest features is the slide show project type.

Many small but important improvements. To smooth out the corners.

Help System streamlined - help can have comments like the rest of the site.

Improvements in the UI and some fixes. 

(And a bonus photo on the right.)

• Sill more fixes into the install process.
• Trackbacks have a "Delete similar and ban" button beside each trackback for easy administering.

• Installing fixed — there were problems mostly with Windows.
• Page properties can be accessed from the ND menu (frontend editing menu).

Thanks to Noah Mapstead for help.

• Page properties can be accessed from the ND menu.
• Page comments can be accessed from the ND menu.
• Some trackback stuff fixed.

Quite a few changes "inside the hood".

• Speed improvements on large sites. Netdoc is very fast on any kind of site now.
• Support for rel nofollow. This can be set in Project Properties.
• Some fixes and improvements.

1.4 is quite a huge update.

Aside from the thousands of minor improvements and fixes, a couple of more bigger features are in this release:

First, there are the user privileges, which should be finalized in this release.

• Users can be assigned one or more different roles, like An Editor and so on.
• Privileges can be assigned to these roles.

Then, perhaps even a bigger update, is that files and pictures can be saved into the database. This has a few implications:

• Files are easier to manage — they will be managed with a similar type of tree that is used to manage the site's pages.
• Files inherit the user permission settings that are assigned to projects or categories. This will improve the site security a whole lot.
• It will enable a version control when files are stored into the database.

Some people may want to store even all the pictures into the database - if you want a real easy site management. There will be a quite a minor performance penalty if all the pictures are stored into the database.

The setting that affects how files are handled is in Project Properties/Cache.

Netdoc 1.25 comes with a complete user privilege system. Websites can be made global readable, only readable to some, or even global writable. These privileges can be applied also to any part of the website, and defining them takes generally only a couple of rules.

For the last week or so there has been many little fixes. Netdoc has been tested on different setups and mostly the installing procedure is straight-lined.

For example, the installer will now check for correct file permissions and for mod_rewrite.

If there are any problems in installing Netdoc, please let us know.

Netdoc has switched from Turck MMCache to eAccelerator.

Turck MMCache is a great product but unfortunately it is not maintained anymore. However, there is a group of motivated developers now behind the successor of Turck MMCache, and the project is called eAccelerator. Netdoc requires eAccelerator, and eA is included in the Netdoc package as well.

Linux users have to compile eA themselves, for Windows users there are eAccelerator binaries.

• Posts can be set pretermined publishing dates which are in the future and such posts are published at that time.
• Improvements when posted with frontend editing.

Still another bug fixed.

When creating a new project of type Website the frontend editing feature couldn't be accessed because there were some old versions of files in the zip package. (I'm talking about the little ND menu at the top left corner.)

• Stylesheet problems with Calendar and Photo Albums fixed.

• Still a few fixes.

Here it is, the version 1.0 of Netdoc!

Please pay the license fee and make Netdoc possible in the future as well.

In the next minor release we will see a WYSIWYG editor for Mozilla.

All the known bugs have now been fixed, which there were some in the release candidates. If you have Netdoc installed, you can update it from the shell.

> cd netdoc
> php admin/update.php

This way you can update your installation of Netdoc in the shell with the update.php script. Updating a server based software can't be much easier than that, can it?

(And don't forget to pay for the license fee.)

• A couple of minor fixes.

A new version again!

• Some fixes.
• Some UI improvements.
• New installer (Turck MMCache is included).

• Mainly bugfixes.
• Calendar admin interface is improved.

    Finally a big update. 1.00 Release Candidate 2 includes, among others:

• A layout editor for websites.
• Web Forms editor for making and handling forms.
• Photo Gallery.
• Event Calendar.
• Thumbnails generator.
• Advanced caching for super fast page loads.
• UI improvements.
• Security improvements for CMS hosting purposes. PHP Safe mode can be used.

Usually the frontend editing feature (the little ND box on websites) appears when the user has logged into ND and clicked the remember me checkbox. Then, a cookie is placed on the user's computer, and that user is remembered and can use the little ND box.

Something new to this scheme: a website can now have a login box, which the users can use to log in or out, and can have the little ND box in use on a session basis. This way the little ND box can be used from a shared machine.

So, this feature is for larger groups, schools, communitites etc, who want to have a blog for each member or a shared blog for some member.

The user privilege system is ready!

Caching is fixed a bit.

Existing ND users: go to shell and issue a command php admin/update.php to update your NDs.

More cache features:

Netdoc's RSS feeds normally contain 20 newest blog posts. A common practice on the web nowadays is to return the whole feed if any of the posts have been changed (since the last time an rss aggregator, for example Bloglines, requested the feed) or give HTTP 304 Not Modified if the feed is up to date (to that RSS aggregator).

Netdoc tries to go one step further: if an RSS feed reader requests the feed with the If-None-Match or If-Modified-Since header, Netdoc will return only the blog posts that have been modified after that timestamp.

This is to say that ETags are now timestamps and only the changed posts can be returned to the RSS aggregator, which should save bandwidth for large blogging hosts.

This idea came to my mind when reading this post.

Redirects:

• Can be managed from from Project Settings->Redirects.
• A redirect is made if a page is moved around, from a folder to another.
• You can make your own redirects and delete them.
• The template file netdoc/templates/cms/index.php has been changed to accomodate the redirects. If you have copied the templates to use them on a real site, take the new index.php.

• Pages are cacheable by browsers and proxies for increased performance and reduced bandwidth.
• Support for HTTP Conditional GET to co-operate with caches.
• More statistics in Project -> Statistics.
• One more blog tracker to ping (Ping-o-Matic, which pings a dozen other trackers).

Statistics:

• Project Size.
• Page access logs: referrers, IP-addresses, time.
• Search phrase tracking.

Accessible from the menu (Project -> Statistics).

• Electronic Documents (in Netdoc Viewer) can be edited on the fly.
• Preview in comments.
• Speed optimizations.
• Installation made a bit better.

• Search/replace can be initiated from the page context menu.
• Search/replace improved.
• One fix.

IIS (Internet Information Services, Microsoft's web server) compatibility.

Tested with IIS 6.0, ISAPI and fastcgi modes and ISAPI_Rewrite.

Something useful:

• Page compare (diff). In Page Properties.
• Pages can be set to HTTP/HTTPS.

• HTTP authentication can be set to categories.
• Website templates (the PHP code) is clearer.
• Some other tweaks.

A change in the editor:

• Clicking the save button will create a permanent copy of a topic/page
• Saving with Ctrl-S will not create a permanent copy, but will just cuick save.

Also one small fix.

A couple of fixes in

• Category locking/unlocking/editing.
• Topic (page/post) history/view/rollback.
• RSS feeds' URLs

Some UI changes:

• Thanks to Char James-Tanny for ideas on the menu and other UI changes.
• Thanks to Jim Freeman for testing and many ideas.
• Thanks to Dan Cederholm for CSS tricks (CSS tabs and bulleted lists).

A couple of fixes.

Quite a few changes.

• Electronic documents are now Google searchable and indexable with clean URLs.
• Some UI changes (more to come)
• The PHP code for making new websites is cleaner and structured better. In templates
• If you have version 0.931 or lower, run admin/update2.php in shell. There are some data changes.

• Stylesheet handling is improved (in the Project Properties and in the editor)
• When you click a page on the content tree, you will be taken into editing mode right away - it seemed better this way.
• Many smaller improvements all around the ND

Netdoc approaches 1.0 version! Everything seems good, things are clicking.

• Netdoc (the same installation) can now be used in virtual hosts, this if for hosting companies.
• Updating scenario has been changed for security reasons: Netdoc is updated from the shell with a command php admin/update.php. You can use command line (CLI) or CGI php, but you have to be able to use one of them.
• Fixes.

• Netdoc can be used in subdomains - like demosite.visiomode.com
• Blog posts can be browsed by category by giving the appropriate URL (for example http://www.visiomode.com/blog/general/)
• Pages that are PHP scripts can be edited in frontend

• Email notifications should be ready, ok and working. You can track posts, web pages, document pages, comments and trackbacks.
• Blog pings Technorati and blo.gs in addition to weblogs.com

Some bugs fixed in topic saving - those new saving features introduced a couple of bugs of course.

Ctrl-S works now in Frontend editing. And just in case, F2 does the same task as Ctrl-S. It seems that Firefox users need to use F2, because Ctrl-S pops up a "Save webpage as" dialog.

Of course, I'm talking about saving. No more lost content.

Frontend editing is now better -- you can actually use it to publish blog posts, instead of just editing them or editing web pages.

Granted, this comes a little late.

Use Admin->Update. People who download and install the .zip should do Admin->Update as their first task to see if there are new updates.

Something new, mostly fixes.

Email notification system is about ready needs some tuning.

New updates:

• Blog posts gather information about clicks; there can be a Most Popular Posts section.
• URL handling is improved again - should be final now?
• You don't need a separate PHP file to make an RSS feed, Netdoc takes care of it.
• Netdoc website integration API changed a bit.
• Templates improved.