We believe that website publishing should be simplified to the bone. Website owners should be able to drag and drop various content at the website and the websites need to be smart enough to accept and publish everything with the click of a button. It’s similar to making a collage, cutting and pasting, stitching and gluing. This should just work.

With SiteCake, you will be able to do exactly that. So far we made it possible to add images, slideshows and files to your pages. You can drag an image, from your desktop or file manager, and add it to the website. If you add more than one image SiteCake will make a slideshow of it. And if you want to add a downloadable file, just drag it to the page and SiteCake will make a link, with the name and the length of the file. Just like that.

See how this works in this 1 minute screencast.

This is just the beginning. Adding text should also function like this. And same thing for videos. 
We will do our best to make SiteCake capable of accepting all different kinds of content. Just watch us.

We are upgrading and testing new version on a daily basis. Everything we try happens first on our new demo page. And since we couldn’t keep this just for ourselves, we made demo site available for public at demo.sitecake.com. So please feel free to play with the template and don’t worry about mess the you made, changes are valid only for browser session.

Check out demo.sitecake.com
Login link is in the footer, and password is: admin.

If you happen to run across any bugs please send us a ticket here.

Here is 90 seconds trailer video to give you ideas what you can do with new SiteCake powers.

We introduced new way to move or delete multiple page elements: multi selection of page elements with the use of lasso selection and CTRL+clicking.

See for your self in this 18 seconds screen cast.

We supported two more standard keyboard shortcuts for selection of page elements

• CTRL+A for selecting all page elements
• DEL for deleting an element

It’s been quite a time since we released first version of SiteCake. First version has the purpose to gather user comments and show us if there is a market for this kind of CMS. The feedback has been more than positive and more than precious for us.

.htaccess problem

.htaccess configuration was the biggest problem of all. We couldn’t offer support of configuring for each and every hosting provider configuration. So we removed this requirement. As a result you will need to rename your pages from .html to .php and add PHP line to each page of your site. This line is telling the page about the location of SiteCake and will go something like this:

<?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . “/sitecake/server/sitecake_entry.php”; ?>

Browser Support

This is hard battle to be won. Everybody who is doing websites knows the pain. We know it a bit more since we are using ‘cutting edge’  browsers technologies so standards are even more vague. Anyhow we support (with some bugs on which we are working right now) FireFox, Chrome and Safari browsers on both Mac and PC platforms. IE is beast of old ages and we decided not to tame it but to insert another personality in it. IE users will be prompted with Google Chrome Frame plugin download first time they enter SiteCake editor, after that moment you will never notice the difference again.

No Need For Back Link

We decided not to force users to back link to us. If they want they are welcome, but this will not be the requirement for free version. Free version will be completely free.

No Flash Requirement

Multi upload of images in last version has been done with the help of Flash. It was the only way at that time which worked in all browsers. We dropped Flash and use HTML5 for this task now. Does it mean that SiteCake will work on iPads and other iOS gadgets, yes, in the future, yes.

Works From Any Folder, Not Just Root

This problem has been solved by itself once we dropped .htaccess and introduced .php pages. It’s not big news but I am sure it is handy that you can decide where you will put what on your server.

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And that’s it. I will talk more about new features in next posts.