Skyline CMS Release 3.0.7

We're proud to announce our first official Skyline CMS release. Version 3.0.7 is the first stable open source release. It has only been 6 months since the first (internal) release of Skyline 3. Skyline 3 has been a huge step for us as a company, but also for the product itself.

• Full page editing
  Create, edit and manage pages the way you want it: place elements (sections), move them around freely, change their appearance and preview them. Rinse and repeat until you're happy with the result. You are never editing the live site!
• Publishing
  Publish your changes once you're happy with their preview. If you accidentally publish something you didn't want to have online, just view the version history and roll back your latest change.
• Work together without conflicts
  You never have to worry that someone else might be changing the page you're working on. Skyline knows who's editing which page and displays it in preview-mode if someone else is editing it. Because we don't live in a perfect world, you can still force a take-over (your colleague may be in an hour long meeting and you really need to change the info on the website).
• Aggregate content with tagging
  Say your website has news items and you want some news items to automatically appear on the homepage, and have all news items on your dedicated news page. Skyline has a "Content Library" where you can store content that you want to have aggregated somewhere else. In addition to the sections you can place on a page, content in the library can also have all kinds of metadata like a date, a teaser text or a custom image. But most important of all: you can tag your content items. When you're placing a list of content on a page, you can select the tags you want to match and only those items will be shown.
• Media library
  Store all your website's assets in a central place. You have access to the same library, whether you're editing a paragraph or you're selecting a default image for your news items: the images, videos or other files all come from the Media Library.

We spent a lot of time on making it easy to create a site with Skyline. This meant documenting, creating guides and setting up a support network (don't let the almost empty Google group scare you!) We have multiple guides on how to get you started, how to create templates for your site and how to create elements for "Content Library".

The skylinecms gem is perfect if you want to have stable environment and don't care too much about cutting-edge new features. We release a new version fairly often (version 3.0.0 has been released in July, we're now at 3.0.7)

Use the plugin if you want to be on the latest development version with all the 'cool' new features. Especially if you use git, because we're hosting the source on github. It's of course entirely possible to use a stable tagged version as a plugin too.

Did we get your attention and you want to give it a spin? Check out our live-online demo. See our live-demo page for the logins (we don't require you to fill in a form).

If you have been using our github master branch pre-3.0.7, please see http://github.com/DigitPaint/skyline/blob/master/doc/MIGRATION.md on how to migrate your implementation.