Whats new

• Control buttons for picture slideshow
• Social Networking (facebook, twitter, etc)
• Embed twitter feeds into website
• Dynamic RSS Feed (i.e. use magic tags to show a feed for 7 seconds before it rotates into next feed)
• Hide Article Summary and Title (i.e. not italics)?
• Image maps - use this for virtual tour or class pages
• Reference Tags - places superscript lettering to automatic generated reference text
• Add content to left and right columns - for example a twitter feed
• Clear content from left and right columns - for example, the latest events, etc
• Redirect to other pages - can be used to hide information, etc
• Accordian - Displays information from one article in a list of articles
• Embed summaries - show the summary of another article
• Quick links - Use this instead of 'a' tags
• Embed a slideshow that has been created in ANOTHER article - create a hidden slideshow and reference to it (reduce download times?)
• Copy an existing article - could be useful when creating your class pages
• TAB style menu

Durham Learning Gateway
Calendar integration will allow you to place an event in your website calendar and display it in selective calendars within the DLG.

Other Suggested Updates

• New images and options for the '2 column' with 'banner & footer' templates
• Improved resizing of the images used in the lightbox effect
• Individualised feedback forms (by request)
• ALT tag on hyperlinked images

A test site has been created and many of the new features are now available for preview at http://testsite1.itss-durham.org.uk. 

New for 2011 items can be found in the additional features section of this website. 

Thank you.