Dolphin 8 Preview - Page Builder
Finally the time has come to play with the most exciting of the Dolphin builders. With the new "Pages" builder in Studio, Dolphin (despite being at the early stage of development) already becomes a somewhat useful CMS. Effectively, we can now create pages with different content blocks, interlink them using Navigation Builder and thus construct a classy website! Don't do it at home though - this is a super-raw material!
So, watch the video below and see how Dolphin now supports multiple layouts, integrated menus and a variety of page blocks. As an example I've created a sample page "About Dolphins" adding typical blocks. Once other Modules start providing their blocks it would be possible to add comments, members, notes, etc, etc. This is only the foundation - BoonEx and external developers will make shine!
This is also the first operational preview of the user-interface and we're as excited as kids in a candy store. The times they are a changin'... Woot-woot!
Attention Developers: Read the Dolphin 8 Pages Development API to learn how to make your modules work well with the new "Pages" builder. The more you know now - the better product you'd be able to produce once Dolphin 8 is released.
The new Dolphin solution is powered by UNA Community Management System.
Not a social cms!
As for "social network that works like Facebook"... why do you think users would "want" this? Moreover, why do you think that innovation and success comes from making a copy of something that users already know and have?
Its not just pages
as a site owner i want to buy 10 best social games, 10 group plugins, 10 chat and other apps etc from Uniity.
and I DONT WANT TO PUSH EVERYTHING ONTO MY USERS.
let them search in my domain and whatever apps, games, pages, mods THEY WANT...
let them instal to their profile and use...
simple...
or
give api access to Unity market...
Let my users buy/get free apps, games, whatever they want from unity market and install it.
but then the see more
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also can we add more than one block per row in the same column (also controllable individual width) and then under them a block with the full column width?
Multiple-blocks per row would complicate the system and interface and code. We don't want to go that way in D8. We want it functional and simple and fast.
As a workaround you could use a "content only" block and HTML to mimic multiple blocks within one row manually, if absolutely needed. I don't' see much use see more
Custom text fields, dropdown menus, sliders, image uploaders (for logo and slide shows), variables, template css edit in admin panel etc. So you can control for example the copyright text, some footer links (social links) or as you said the number of columns and their width, different see more
Developers can add anything they want.
We've spend good few days trying to figure out which WISYWIYG editor to include. We installed half a dozen of them, looked into the code, features, design, rendering, etc. We really wanted to find something better than TinyMCE. We didn't. CKeditor is awful. Smaller/JS-based editors are way too limited. So, we've ended up going for TinyMCE again, with some tweaking. More importantly, we've added one more editor as an option and a support to install and use any 3rd-party editor see more
Boonex is Great, but they all look the same, need the format to be more customizable.
Bill
There are a lot of large and nicely-done Dolphin sites, but none of the owners of these sites hang around Unity, and I don't blame them. Mostly because these people hire developers to create the site, and they choose Dolphin, so there's really no connection to BoonEx, except for the license in the developer's account.
I run a site in two languages and I need to add blocks in more than one language.
Any thought about this?
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but who is the creator of this video???
he should makes better one in next,, (^^,)
but would be nicer if
admin could add background color or fotos for indiviual pages
if
admin could use dreamweaver as editor. (when i create a page i first use dreamweaver then when i upload the code in tiny mce it dosent come back as i created it)
if
admin can upload foto and videos direct from computer? its a hassle to always upload from url
if
admin can create difrent types of members pages? example 1 (a page with only top menu where CUSTOMIZE PAGE is a drop down menu and member see more
For those of you who have negative comments, you do have a choice as to whether or not you continue using Dolphin. Stop bringing complaints to the table if you don't have a solution. Either help them code or shut up and move on.
I should add that the revision right after mine pretty much broke everything again. Talk about luck.
i think i will stay with Dolphin to try out version 8
When is the release date Boon??
With so many other social scripts around (you know exactly which ones deliver and which ones don´t) what is the use of waiting for ever for the dolphin to be born??
This is serious. Boonex is proud to offer a free social script, but then it´s almost impossible to find good free addons and mods. see more