Frontier X 9.5 review
DownloadFrontier is a powerful Web content management system, built around an object database, scripting language, script editor and debugger, outliner, multi-threaded runtime, integrated HTTP server, distributed computing protocols such as XML-RPC and SOAP.
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Frontier is a powerful Web content management system, built around an object database, scripting language, script editor and debugger, outliner, multi-threaded runtime, integrated HTTP server, distributed computing protocols such as XML-RPC and SOAP. Frontier also includes our browser-based content system, Manila, at no extra cost.
Frontier is the solution to the problem every large site has, how to separate form from content. Frontier makes it easy to keep complicated HTML out of the way of writers, and gives you, the site manager, all the tools you need to manage the site. When a designer wants to change the template for the site, it just plugs in, you do nothing. What used to take a couple of weeks now happens in minutes.
Limitations:
Fully-functional 60-day trial copy.
What's New:
Version Control gives managing editors the ability to create an audit trail of changes to posts (discussion group messages, stories, and pictures), preferences edited in the advanced preferences section that affect how the site looks and behaves, and changes made by some Manila plugins. Depending on the configuration, members and/or editors can use the audit trail to restore earlier versions of individual messages or preferences. To make it easy, new pages in the preferences and admin menus show versioning configuration, settings, and a snapshot of the recent audit trail.
Access Control allows the site manager to limit access to messages of all types - news items, pictures and stories - completely or for a designated period of time. Access can be defined on a read/write basis. No read access means that you cannot see (read) a message. No write access means you can see the message but cannot respond to it.
Interface Improvements include auxiliary templates so you can easily customize your Manila site's appearance by department or category or just select a new look every month. We have also re-organized the Preferences and Admin pages, simplified their organization, and let you sort pictures and stories alphabetically.
Spam Control is a concern for anyone running a public blog. Manila 9.5 now supports two-step member signup with email confirmation. When a new member signs up, they are required to click a link in a confirmation email before they can become a member, making it harder for spammers to create fake members. UserLand also supports the NoFollow attribute: an anti-spam feature intended to discourage spammers from posting in order to boost search ranking. Finally, Comment/Trackback enhancements make it easier to manage Comment/TrackBack deletion and permalinks.
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