EditLive! is Now More Stylish

Last month the EditLive! team released version 6.4 after six months of diligent developing and testing. Version 6.4 is an important release that focused on improvements to the cascading style sheet (CSS) rendering and editing engine of EditLive!

Improvements to the 'CSS rendering and editing engine' may sound rather technical and you would be forgiven for wondering what, if anything, this has to do with an average author's life?

The answer is that the web content management world needs to lift the bar when it comes to style. Using the words 'style' and 'web content management' in the same sentence might seem odd but it is a brave new Web 2.0 world. The need for creating visually appealing content is much more important now than it has ever been. Boring, static sites just aren't enough.

Modern web sites make use of many web design tricks to deliver a compelling experience. Take a look through Apple's new iPhone site for inspiration for your next web page. Side bars, floating boxes, tabbed tables, fancy lists and rounded corners are everywhere.

EditLive! 6.4 represents the start of many improvements to enable good looking effects to be created quickly and easily. Improvements such as displaying and editing floating 'div' elements are an example of what might at first seem like arcane developer-only features but will ultimately enable authors to easily create floating sidebars and callout boxes.

In the coming months we will be releasing style sheets that make the most of our new found style. Stay tuned as we put some sizzle back in the web content management world!

-Andrew Roberts, Co-Founder and CEO