2:04pm June 11th, 2009 By webon.team
We are so excited to be releasing many powerful new features today.
- Audio Uploads and Audio Player
- File uploading (Docs, PDFs, .xls, etc)
- Linking to any file in your media manager
- Form Creator Tool
- Page Counter
Audio Uploads and Audio Player
You can now upload MP3s and WAV files to your Media Manager and place them on your site. You'll notice a new icon in the Editor labeled "Audio". It works just like dropping a picture on your site. Drop the audio icon somewhere on your page and Webon will let you browse to an audio file in your Media Manager or upload a new audio file and will then place a small, flash-based audio player where you dropped the icon. The player works in any browser that has the Flash plugin installed (which is basically all of them at this point). In a later version we will add functionality for creating audio playlists... similar to albums for pictures.
Support for new file types
When you go to your Media Manager now you'll see two new tabs that didn't exist before. One is "Audio" which is where the files we just mentioned go... and the other is "Docs". Docs is where you can upload and manage Word Docs, Text files, Spreadsheets, PDFs and such.
Link to any file in your Media manager
Now, when you highlight text on your site and use the "Create Link" tool you'll see that you can browse to any file in your Media Manager and make a link to it. This means you can make a link to any document type you can upload. It also means you can make a link to image files and audio files.You can also link to video files but they will be downloaded as .swfs rather than as MPEG or AVI. We will revisit that particular thing in the future and improve it. One other thing to mention is that the filenames of linked media that you link to currently come from our internal numbering system.That's another thing we will improve in an upcoming release.
Form Creator Tool
In your Add-ons box there is a new icon for our Form Creator. This can be used as a survey tool, a contact form, or whatever you like. When users fill out the form and submit it an email containing their answers will be automatically sent to you at the email address you have registered to your account.
Page Counter
Another new addition to your Add-ons box is a Page Counter. Drop this on a page and it will begin to count how many visits that page has had.
Bugs or Questions?
As always we're pleased to answer your questions and definitely want to hear about any problems or bugs you may be experiencing. Feel free to leave comments here... we read them every day... but PLEASE include your username with your comment. It's impossible for us to see your problem if we don't know where to look.
NOTE: If you have any trouble seeing any of these updates you may need to clear your "browser cache".
Internet Explorer users: Tools > Internet Options > General Tab > Delete (Browsing History).
Firefox users: Tools > Options > Clear Now (Private Data).
Tags: Features, Audio Player, Document Uploading, Form Creator, add-ons







