Introducing Glazed Builder: A Monumental Update By SooperThemes
2017 is going to be an incredible year for SooperThemes and for you! We kick off with the first official major version update for our drag and drop builder! Today we introduce you to Glazed Builder 1.1.0. We have rebranded Carbide Builder to Glazed Builder and developed some major new features, including entity revisions, full support for filtered contextual views and RGBA color sliders!
This is a monumental update. Glazed Builder is currently not only the greatest and fastest drag and drop builder for Drupal but also a very competitive product in the wider site building landscape. Going forward we'll not only develop more features and designs but we'll also start developing even more complete and complex turn-key Glazed demos. In addition this release marks the start of our Drupal 8 upgrade sprint. Yes, you heard that right, with the D8Media initiative aiming to add much needed Media improvements in Drupal 8.3 we feel like now is the right time.
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Redesigned for 2017
Glazed Builder has a fresh look that is designed for fast intuitive site-building. The speed of an interface isn't just about fast code, it's very much about fast design too. The new controls are all-white and while animation is used on the drop shadows the actual controls appear and respond immediately.
The colors and branding are matched to the Glazed brand, to emphasize the uniform experience you get when you combine our Glazed Theme with the builder. That said, Glazed Builder is still an independent module that can work with any Drupal theme!
Views with Contextual Filters
Perfect if you're making a magazine website or more serious blog or commerce website! Now you can design taxonomy term or e-commerce pages with dynamic views displays. It is now fully supported to load views in drag and drop pages, override their filters and pagers in Glazed Builder, and let these views take default arguments based on url parts.
This feature is not just awesome for magazine websites but also for government websites, intranets, communities... Basically anyone who builds websites with large amounts of structured content will love this update.
Better Equal Heights Rows And Vertical Centering, RGBA Color
Having an alpha slider on every color setting in Glazed Builder allows more creative freedom for designers and makes it easier for site builders to implement designs that use translucent elements. We also improved equal heights rows by replacing the old jQuery trick with faster, reliable Flexbox CSS. In addition we enriched the column element with a Vertical Centering option. This let's you add vertical centering to columns independently of sibling columns.
Saving Revisions
Some updates are invisible: Glazed Builder now automatically detects entity types that support revisions and will create new revisions when saving to fields on these entities. It doesn't matter if your field is on a node, bean block or custom entity. It doesn't even matter if you have have 10 Glazed Builder instances in one page, saving to multiple entities in the backend. It all just works and with revisions you'll easily undo those regrettable changes that seemed right in the spur of the moment.
Goole AMP
Google AMP is seeing more and more adoption and we integrated Glazed Builder with the Drupal AMP module. AMP is very restrictive so it won't allow fancy elements like circle charts and image comparison widgets but it should work fine with non-interactive markup generated by Glazed Builder. We welcome feedback from AMP experts on how to further extend AMP support!
Glazed Theme 2.6.0
While this releases focuses on the Glazed Builder update, Glazed Theme also received new features and consequently a major version bump to 2.6.0. Less spectaculary but still very useful: A Import/Export interface was added to the Glazed Theme Settings interface. All those settings that collectively make up your sites' unique design can now easily be copy-pasted between environments, or into a new subtheme .info file.
Drupal 8 Themes and Builder
As a subscription Drupal theme shop, we really focus on building long-term relationships with our customers and that's why we carefully chose important moments that affect the products we make and maintain. Choosing the right moment to make the D8 move was hard, because Drupal 7 is just so good that it was hard for Drupal 8 to take the crown.
From my perspective, this moment is the release of Drupal 8.3 with contrib in great shape, improved media handling, and hopefully a media browser in core! The moment that it no longer makes sense for anyone to start a Drupal 7 website is approaching and we're going to make sure all our products are running smoothly on Drupal 8 by that time.
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