Magnolia
Magnolia 4.0
With Magnolia CMS 4.0, managing the layout of one or multiple Web sites has become as simple and yet as sophisticated as managing content. Designers and programmers have full control over the look&feel of content input and output interfaces within the front- as well as back-end through the browser-based administration interface. They can quickly build custom Web site designs on top of the Magnolia Standard Templating Kit which provides production-ready templates.
Watch the Video Introduction
Watch CTO Boris Kraft give an introduction to Magnolia 4.0.
Benefits of Supersonic Templating
CMS design projects can take-off, cruise and land easily with Supersonic Templating available in Magnolia 4.0:
- High quality: Create individual designs based on best-practice standard templates.
- Cost efficient: Maintain layouts of live Web sites through a browser-based admin interface.
- Secure investment: Control the whole layouting life-cycle through role-based access, versioning, workflows, backups, etc.
New features in Magnolia 4.0
- Standard Templating Kit (STK): The STK is a complete, out-of-the-box website layout that conforms to accessibility standards. It provides „templating best practice“ and an extensive set of ready-made functionality that can easily be extended for custom designs and content output.
- SEO optimized: Magnolia 4.0 delivers content to the Web optimized for search engines.
- Accessiblity conformance: Magnolia templates follow the guidelines of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG2m) as well as Germany's BITV (Barrierefreie Informationstechnik-Verordnung).
- Supports mobile devices: Content formatting in Magnolia 4.0 supports iPhone & other mobile devices. It adapts a website-layout automatically to the available screen estate of any client - be it a mobile device or a wide screen monitor.
- Turn-key page templates: Magnolia 4.0 includes 11 use-case-driven page templates that are production-ready: Home-page, Section-page, News, Events, Article, Image-Gallery, Form, Sitemap and others. It also includes more than 30 paragraphs (content types) including text & image, video, teasers, stages, tabbed content, latest events, latest news and others.
- Templating Best Practice: Quickly learn how to extend Magnolia to match your custom needs by following our examples.
- Advanced templates management: Magnolia 4.0 allows to fully control the complete layouting life-cycle. Templates can be activated/de-activated, imported & exported, put under version and access control. Template aliases (references) can be configured as well as regular backups of all design elements.
- Explicit Multi-Site support: Magnolia 4.0 provides a new configuration option to share templates across multiple sites while maintaining separate functionality and layout.
- Adding Freemarker as a template language: The Templating Kit is written in Freemarker, which provides new possibilities and makes the development of templates faster and easier than using JSP. JSP remains fully supported and in true Magnolia-fashion, you can mix and match both templating languages to secure your investment and profit from the latest developments at the same time.
- New Form module: The new Form module provides server-side data-validation, logging and personalized confirmation mails.
- Enhanced Mail module: Attachments can now be sent from within Magnolia for HTML as well as plain text emails. When sending a page, images and links are automatically being processed. Email templates can be build with FreeMarker. The new mail module supports the "SMTP Service Extension for Secure SMTP over TLS" (see RFC2487).
Screenshots
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- Magnolia Templating Kit for Web site layouting
The newly added navigation elements of the new Templating Kit allow to access all parts of multiple Web sites' front- and back-end layout from within Magnolia's admin interface.
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- Templates context menu
Browse through templates and CSS files in a tree structure and use the context menu to manage them.
Browse through templates and CSS files in a tree structure and use the context menu to manage them:
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- Edit Template dialog
Edit template, CSS and JavaScript files in a Web browser. Alternatively, they can be edited with Freemarker. Below screenshot shows how placeholders for dynamic conent are being mixed with HTML. Magnolia 4.0 allows to use various templating language of choice:
Edit template, CSS and JavaScript files in a Web browser. Alternatively, they can be edited with Freemarker. Below screenshot shows how placeholders for dynamic conent are being mixed with HTML. Magnolia 4.0 allows to use various templating language of choice:
More information about Magnolia 4.0
Try out Magnolia now
- Download open source Community Edition
- Download Enterprise Edition and register for a free 60-day trial
- Check out the Live Demo
Product pages
Press releases
Featured Weblogs
- Magnolia 4.0: Supersonic Templating (Boris Kraft, CTO)
Magnolia Documentation
- Magnolia 4.0 Releases notes (must read!)
- FreeMarker Integration
Magnolia Development Wiki
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