I found an interesting screencast about Drupal 6, that shows the new features provided by the new version 6 of the popular CMS.
photo credit: kk+
I had the chance to try the new version and there are a few things that hit me, thanks to the semplicity and usability they provide.
- A lot of Ayax controls in the administration interface, so that the site management is simpler and immediate. They’re used - for example - to check the password weakness.
- The automatic check of the possibility to use SEF URLs. Otherwise, the system uses URLs like ?q= xxx
- The possibility of being updated via e-mail when a new version of Drupal or one of the installed modules is released.
- You can create actions that are executed when a certain things happens, for example when a new article is published or created.
- Drupal remembers the visitor’s data whenever a visitor writes a comment of an article. It stores the data in a cookie on the visitor’s computer, so that if the user comes back, (s)he does’nt have to enter the data again.
- The automatic HTML correction in the comments, so that a not-closed tag doesn’t lead to a broken page layout.
- The drag and drop to define the menu layout and the page structure!
That’s great for a CMS that was (until now) famous for being unfriendly and complicated! Thanks to the usability testing that was done, we have a easiest administrator interface! Also Wordpress, with the version 2.5, will have a redesign of its admin panel, don’t you think that also Joomla! needs something like this?
Of course these are not all the new features in Drupal 6, but only those that hit me!
Tags: CMS, Content Management System, Drupal, Drupal 6
October 27th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I like that. It’s a simple filtering implementatiion that’s intuitive. Wouldn’t work for facets on my site though because facets are actually vocabularies. Would work for filtering child terms, though. Will have to remember this for future client projects. Thanks.