Sandvox 2 ist erschienen – eines der besten Programme zur Erstellung von CSS basierten WebSeiten!
Wer die Vorteile von Sandvox in der Version 1 zur Erstellung von Webseiten bereits kennen gelernt hat, wird von Sandvox 2 begeistert sein!
Eine Fülle von Erweiterungen und Verbesserungen erwarten den Benutzer.
(Weiter unten gebe ich den Original-Text zum Update wieder, damit ihr die Fülle auch nachvollziehen könnt.)
Wer bisher noch keine Webseite(n) damit erstellt hat, dem sei der Kauf des Programmes wärmstens empfohlen (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!)
Aber Vorsicht beim Upgrade von Version 1 zu Version 2! Bei der Umstellung vin v1 zu v2 gibt es diverse Dinge zu beachten:
Das größte Problem liegt darin, dass sowohl Sandvox 1 und Sandvox 2 auf DENSELBEN Ordner in ~/Library/Application Support/Sandvox zugreifen.
Der italienische Entwickler (Cristiano M. Gaston) des Templates “Carbone” meiner Webseiten hat zur Portierung von Version 1 nach Version 2 einige gute Tipps in seinem Blog hinterlassen. Wer mit der englischen Sprache evtl. Probleme hat, kann sich gerne per E-Mail an mich wenden. Sicherlich kann ich dann weiterhelfen!
Hier ist der Link zum B L O G: U P G R A D I N G T O S A N D V O X 2
ORIGINAL COMMENTS FROM THE SANDVOX CREW TO V2:
Sandvox 2.0 rocks an entirely new architecture for web publishing with a comfortably familiar, yet greatly enhanced user experience. Sporting over five dozen major new features and enhancements, we redefine this category of application. Here are just some of the highlights:
New Features
▪ There is no longer a distinction between “Regular” and “Pro” editions of Sandvox. Everybody gets Pro features.
▪ No more page “types.” Lay out text, images, video, and other objects on the page as you see fit. Plus, we still have a bunch of templates to get you started building a page.
▪ Massively improved editor UI:
▪ Selecting an object works much closer to traditional desktop publishing apps. Click once to select an object; click again to start editing inside of it, e.g. Text Boxes
▪ Images and other objects can be resized
▪ Objects can be dragged around to adjust their position, with full controls available in the Wrap Inspector
▪ Drag and drop support is heavily improved. e.g. drag a file onto a media placeholder or index and Sandvox will cleanly handle it for you
▪ Indexes are far more configurable; they can be moved around the page, like any other object. And we’ve expanded the layout choices available
▪ Completely revamped Inspector. There are now six segments, giving more precise control of your website, and a cleaner layout. The rightmost segment is for options specific to the object currently selected.
▪ The sidebar is more flexible, allowing you to specify exactly which objects appear on a given page if needed.
▪ We have a handful of new designs, and also introduced a number of color variations to our classic designs. The Sandvox 1 bonus designs pack is now included, free, with the app
▪ Brand new Design Chooser:
▪ Conveniently groups design variations together
▪ Filter to show only designs of a particular category
▪ If the design supports it, site menu can be laid out hierarchically
▪ Photo Grid sports a Gallery option for a beautiful JS display of your pictures big and bold and bright.
▪ Integration with Twitter and Facebook:
▪ Show feeds from Twitter
▪ Add a “tweet” or “like” button to your content
▪ Use Facebook as a commenting system
▪ Each page includes its thumbnail (if there is one), so that websites linking to the page (Facebook, Digg, Yahoo, MySpace, etc.) display that thumbnail
▪ HTML5 page generation. The goal is to make sure that your multimedia website is compatible with as many devices as possible, including iPhone/iPad, and both Mac and Windows.
▪ There is a new code injection option for adding site-wide CSS; extremely handy for customizing a design. (Before, you had to insert your custom CSS into the head area of every page.)
▪ Overhauled Raw HTML editor:
▪ Validates your code as you type, then use the toolbar item to get more detailed info on validation
▪ Specify the type of code; e.g. PHP will not attempt to be previewed in Sandvox, but will instead appear as a little “PHP” placeholder
▪ Brand new Cocoa plug-in API; look for great plug-ins coming from us and third-party developers.
▪ Sandvox is free to try for sites of up to five pages. Anything outside that limit will be published as a placeholder until a Sandvox license is purchased
Improvements
▪ We’ve put the page details area down below the web view, instead of in the lower left corner as it was in Sandvox 1.x.Keywords have moved into the Page Inspector, as they are not actually very important to search engines. The extra space means the page’s full URL can now be displayed.
▪ Commenting system and Google integration now live in their own sheets, for easier setup.
▪ Tidied up preferences window.
▪ Using the Inspector, you have a lot more control about what pieces of a page (titles, sidebar, logo, etc.) will be shown. For example, it’s more valuable to your site if a page’s title is hidden, rather than having no title at all.
▪ A regular page can be converted into a collection, and vice-versa.
▪ YouTube videos use the most up-to-date embedded Flash/HTML5 player; border, border colors, and HD options are no longer supported.
▪ Smarter logic for automatically adding pages to the site menu.
▪ Sandvox does a much better job of keeping HTML tidy while you type.
▪ The publishing system is more efficient, so all files in the site are only re-published if needed (previously, this capability only applied to pages and media files).
▪ Improved page loading performance when using many of our built-in plug-ins.
▪ Many other subtle UI improvements for a healthier, more energizing website building experience.
▪ Sandvox is now a signed application, which means in future updates, the Keychain should stop asking you if you want to re-give Sandvox access to it
▪ To aid custom HTML, jQuery is available on every page.
Other Notes
▪ Link editing has moved into the Inspector, including when linking an image to a larger version of itself.
▪ Sandvox 2 documents have a new extension: .sandvox
▪ Opening an existing .svxSite document will prompt you to upgrade the document, saving it to a new location. (Your original .svxSite document is left untouched.)
▪ You can no longer edit the Raw HTML making up a text area, since that would conflict with the new flexibility over object positioning. Instead, insert Raw HTML objects within the page text as needed and enter your markup there.
▪ Edited HTML imported from existing documents will be left as-is, but the first time you edit the page, it will be cleaned up, resulting in a mix of regular text and Raw HTML objects. You can force this cleanup to happen at any time with the “Format > Advanced > Tidy HTML” menu command.
▪ Removed support for JS-Kit/Echo comments.




