The “Cub Reporter” release candidate for Big Medium 2 adds the
“Newsprint” design to Big Medium’s theme library and fixes several
bugs. The Newsprint theme features a compact, efficient presentation
for high-volume news and magazine sites, packing lots of content
into a clean and clear design while carving out space for
advertising, if that’s your bag.
The “Newsprint” design theme.
This brings the tally for Big Medium’s theme library to... two! Yep,
count ‘em: two design themes. Never fear, there are more themes on
the way for the final release of Big Medium 2, just a few weeks
away. Although the main goal of Big Medium is to allow designers to
automate their own highly original custom designs, the final version
will come with a handful of useful themes to help non-designers get
started. Stay tuned.
For more info on what’s new in this version, see the complete list
of changes.
As noted in previous release announcements, Big Medium now
requires Perl 5.6.1 or higher; if you’ve been running Big Medium
on a server with Perl 5.6.0 or earlier, you’ll need to upgrade your
Perl installation in order to continue. Not sure what version you
have? Download the compatibility checker from the system
requirements page.
Get the scoop!
Download the latest version of Big Medium here.
The download package includes complete installation instructions,
including notes for upgrading from previous versions of the Big
Medium 2 beta.
Shortcut instructions for upgrading from 2.0rc1, rc2 or
rc3 are provided below. (If you’re upgrading from 2.0b52
or earlier, please follow the full installation instructions in the
download package; along the way, those instructions include special
notes for upgrading.)
The Nitty Gritty
Here’s what’s new in this update:
New features
- Added Newsprint design to the theme library (“Layout>New Theme”).
Changes
Added a “skip navigation” link to <%navigation%> and <%subnavigation%>
widgets. These links are hidden in most browsers but enhance accessibility
for vision-impaired site visitors.
Added Windows Vista fonts to the style editor’s list of Windows fonts.
Improved the markup for dropdown menus to eliminate a one-pixel gap
that sometimes appeared below menus in Internet Explorer.
<%content%> widget no longer builds any html at all if there’s no
content to display.
Added metadata <link> tag to the <head> tag of all pages to point to
the homepage URL for improved accessibility in alternative browsers.
Shuffled order of the main “Layout” menu screen to reflect the order
in the dropdown menu. Added “Save theme in library” panel to this screen.
Updated installation instructions to clarify info for configuring the
maintenance script on Windows servers.
Bug fixes
Fixed bug that prevented the style editor from working in Internet Explorer
when editing a site at a domain other than the one where Big Medium is
installed.
Fixed bug that prevented batch upload from working correctly on the
“individual” tab of the library editor’s batch uploads page.
Fixed bug that allowed <select> pulldowns to obscure dropdown menus in
Internet Explorer 6.
Fixed a bug that prevented the “suppress links to the current page” feature
from working correctly.
<%tagcloud%> widget now suppresses tags that contain only unpublished or
inactive pages.
Fixed bug that caused the edit menu to reset the content type you’re
browsing when entering a new display filter. Entering a new title/section
filter now maintains the current content type (e.g., announcements,
tips or page subtypes) instead of resetting to the “all” view for “pages.”
Fixed crashing bug (“wide character” error) when editing some Markdown files
in servers running Perl 5.6.1.
Fixed a rare crashing bug that occurred when submitting a badly formatted
directory URL to, e.g., the Big Medium setup wizard when
JavaScript is disabled or there’s a missing/corrupted JavaScript
file in the bmadmin directory.
Fixed bug that caused text-format info (“RichText,” “Markdown”, “RawHTML”)
to creep into page titles when page description was selected as one of the
title elements in HTML preferences.
Fixed a bug that prevented external links on images from properly opening
in a full-size window when the “open external links in new window” option
is selected.
Fixed a bug that caused one-click editing links to open the Big Medium
control panel in a too-small window.
Upgrading from Big Medium 2.0rc1, rc2 or rc3?
If you’re upgrading from v2.0rc1 or v2.0rc2 or v2.0rc3, you can update to
the new version by following the instructions below.
1. Set your FTP client to “plain text” or “ascii” mode.
2. Upload to moxiebin/Modules directory:
BigMed.pmBigMed (directory and all contents)HTML (directory and all contents)
3. Upload to moxiedata/support/assets directory:
4. Upload to moxiedata/templates/site_templates directory:
base.css_navcss (directory and all contents)
5. Upload to moxiedata/templates/site_templates/HTML directory:
wi_content.tmplwi_content_image.tmplwi_htmlhead.tmplwi_navigation.tmplwi_oneclick.tmpl
6. Set your FTP client to “automatic” or “binary” mode.
7. Upload to bmadmin/themes/_general directory:
newsprint (directory and all contents)
8. Run the updater
Browse to the bm-update.cgi file in your site’s moxiebin directory.
For example:
http://www.example.com/cgi-bin/moxiebin/bm-update.cgi
This completes the update from 2.0rc1, rc2 or rc3.
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