Dolphin 7.1 - Finishing Touches

There are a few little things that we're finishing now, getting ready for the first Dolphin 7.1 beta. As they say, devil is in details, so it may look like the latest updates are small, but they really do affect users in so many ways that often become more important than whole new modules.

We'd like to share some the highlights from those little (and not so little) things this week, in two or three posts, along with the features completion. Here we go...

Re-Captcha Security Image

Dolphin will now use ReCaptcha free service for security images. This will save quite a few troubles with setting up Dolphin's own captcha system, will be more secure and will help to "stop spam. read books.".

Image Galleries 

Events, Groups, Store and Ads modules will now display multiple images in one box in a form of simple image gallery with round thumbnails...

We've noticed that the new "circles" are so fancy that they encourage clicking through more photos and unlike classic square thumbnails they somehow clue that the image will not open in a new page.

New Date & Time Picker

We used to have two different date pickers for just dates and for exact-time-sensitive things, like events. In Dolphin 7.1 we've added a new date-picker that works well in both cases...

Installation System Update

This is one thing that your site users won't care about, but you'll get to see it every now and then. More so, if you're a developer. We've finally given some love to the installation routine, improving its look and addressing some minor issues. From now on, Dolphin will first greet you like so...

... will gradually lead you to, say, this...

... and, ultimately, this...

Next up, we're going to tell you about e-mails and language files, so don't go too far. Some cool stuff's coming!