Features

SideZoom

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:33:00 +0200

SideZoom display thumbnail of image. Move with mouse above image to see zoomed detail view.

Float Login

Mon, 09 May 2011 16:50:00 +0200

Login windows are never exciting, but they are also a pain when your visitors can’t find them on the page or they hog space. EZGenerator 4 allows a ‘Float login bar’ placed at the top or to the left of the template. It remains hidden when you browse pages but appears when the visitor presses the small login button. This draws attention to the login form and also keeps your precious screen real-estate free ...

Slide-bar

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:01:00 +0200

New to EZGenerator 4 is the Slide-bar window that contains images and or text with an integrated scroll-bar. This is a great way to fit more easily accessible content on your pages. You can also scroll the content automatically and adjust the speed of the transition.

Tooltip Styles

Tue, 18 May 2010 23:46:00 +0200

Tooltips are pop-up texts that appear when the visitor places their mouse cursor over a link or feature. In EZGenerator 4 you now can design your own tool-tip boxes and make them into ‘styles’ to be used in your project. From the ‘Manage Tooltip Styles’ dialogue (second thumbnail below) there are five tabs: Main, Top, Title, Text and Bottom. From these you can input settings to define background colour, font colour and image ...

Online administration

Thu, 13 May 2010 15:20:00 +0200

Administration, you gotta love it, we do! The Central Admin panel has been given a facelift in EZGenerator 4. Set password-protected pages, change the layout (skins) by choosing the style (click on the online administration button in project settings). Click image to the left for a closer look. Click the thumbnail below to see how users are given permissions for online pages and granted access to others.

MYSQL and Online Shop

Thu, 13 May 2010 15:01:00 +0200

MySQL is the standard format for saving and manipulating data (customer, product, stock etc) on a web-server. Interactive pages then can access and manipulate this data to create rich and interactive visitor experience. With EZGenerator 4 all Catalogs and Online Shops now use MySQL as their server-side data format. Once you setup the database with your server, simply input all the settings into the MySQL dialogue (click image to the left) this can ...

Movable Macro Window

Thu, 13 May 2010 14:47:00 +0200

Macros are pre-designed website code/features that you can drag (from the floating Macro bar) and drop on your page. The macros available depend on the template and page you are editing but can include features such as checkboxes, text entry fields, date-picker widgets, load file field/buttons etc. When EZGenerator presents you with a form of some kind (say Contact Request) there will be plenty of Macros to drop on the form ...

Language Bar

Thu, 13 May 2010 14:41:00 +0200

The Language Settings has now been moved to the main toolbar. The Language Bar is designed for websites that need to work in multiple languages. Apart from EZgenerators integrated multi-language development design, the Language bar includes settings for User Interface Language, Online Editor Language, Time Format, Character Sets, Site Name and Slogan. Language-bar settings now work across the whole project.

Sitemap Widget

Thu, 13 May 2010 14:11:00 +0200

Sitemaps allow your visitors to get a quick overview of the layout of your site and are an important feature when people are looking for specific content on your site. The sitemap plugin is new to EZGenerator 4 and is accessed from the widgets button. While the screenshot shows a lot of pages and a vertical map you can easily customise how many columns to use and up to 15 columns. Customise ...

Font Colour Changer

Wed, 12 May 2010 21:58:00 +0200

Similar to any word-processor you can change the color of the text, its font size and type. No need for web-development ‘style’ setting as you can just select the text on your page, choose a colour using the colour picker button, and or choose a new font & font size. While this may seem simple it’s really a powerful feature not commonly found in web-development packages, the team really excelled to make this ...

Auto Update

Wed, 12 May 2010 21:50:00 +0200

EZgenerator will always be kept up to date with the Auto-update feature. Our development team works on EZgenerator almost every day and uploads new features, bugfixes and productivity enhancements almost on a daily base. When Ezgenerator starts up it checks online if any updates are available and then begins to download them, you can view this at the very top of the screen (click the image to enlarge view as where to look), once ...

Interface

Wed, 12 May 2010 21:03:00 +0200

EzGenerator V4 introduces a new streamlined interface. Buttons are easier to see, icons make the layout easy to learn and there are pop-up tips explaining what every button does when you hover your mouse. There are two scrollbars next to the treeview, the left most of the two, scrolls the web-editor page (where the page is shown, similar to the EZGenerator 3), the right-bar scrolls the whole page including the banner and menu, this ...

BannerMaker

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:48:00 +0200

This screenshot shows the layout of the BannerMaker plugin. While the screenshot may not show you much, this program is a very powerful add-on to create your own animated banners (any size, horizontal/vertical, ...). Once you get to know how the EZGenerator Bannermaker plugin works, is pretty powerful. There are lots of animated effects (like snow falling and others) and there is a multi state controller, so you can move objects around. A ...

Forms

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:22:00 +0200

Forms are those interactive data-gathering pages you find on many websites, including ‘Contact Request’, ‘Login’, ‘Newsletter registration’ and ‘Tell a Friend’ forms. In EZGenerator forums can be placed on any page in the edit area and will help you to reach out to your visitors and to gather information from them to deliver the content and information they require. Click on the series of screen shots below to see the process of ...

Template selector

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:18:00 +0200

EZGenerator 4 has a new look template wizard, giving you small preview screenshot of all the styles for the template you have chosen. Besides the main template each has a number of sub-designs based on the parents layout. Along with the filters you have the ‘My Favourite’ area where you can drag styles for later use. Great for the website concept stage when you are not sure what artistic direction to take it. Additionally, ...

Artisteer Import

Wed, 12 May 2010 11:19:00 +0200

EZGenerator 4 allows you to import Artisteer templates that you design yourself. This way it is easy for you to design and use your own EZGenerator templates. Artisteer is a not very expensive third-party software that allows you to design hundreds if not thousand of template variations. The template here took a few mintes to desgn and a minute or so to import into EZGenerator 4. click the image for a larger view. ...