2 Major Reasons to Upgrade to Ektron 9 Now!

Ever since Ektron 9 was launched, developers across the globe have been going gaga over the plethora of features this version offers. Minor improvements in most aspects of the content management system have been made as expected, but the most important factor that sets this version apart from all its predecessors is the seamless support for mobile websites. Designing a mobile site using previous versions of the famous CMS was unfortunately quite difficult. This version tries to remedy all that, along with offering enough extra functionalities and improvements to existing ones to become a mobile web developer’s asset. Let’s take a look at the most notable features of this version, shall we?

Ektron PageBuilder has been redesigned from the ground up

The PageBuilder of Ektron 9 sports an all-new, user-friendly editing interface. The interface is finger-friendly, allowing you to build sites for mobile devices and test them out for compatibility with a wide range of mobile devices. So, next time you are developing a website and don’t have an iPad lying around to test the site compatibility, you need not worry. The CMS offers a built-in feature to help you take care of all the testing you would ever need to do for your site. Web designers specializing in Ektron development will also get to code in HTML5, the latest iteration of the most commonly used markup language. This also has a downside, though. Websites developed using Ektron 9 do not support IE8, Chrome 3 or Firefox 3 and earlier versions. Apart from that, the Page Builder also offers the following features, which will delight web developers :

1. Seamless compatibility with existing widgets and wireframes.
2. Client-side framework, which means most of the processing will be done on the client’s device, keeping server resources free for other purposes.
3. Better support for jQuery, and test page for the same.

Ektron 9 supports fully responsive design of websites

Responsive design is the best way of developing websites that will likely be accessed from multiple types of devices. Let us imagine you wish to ensure your website can be browsed using an iPhone, an Android phone, an iPad and a digital TV. How will you ensure that the site looks great on all these devices, other than designing a different website for each? With complete support for responsive design, Ektron 9 allows you to design websites that automatically scale up or down according to the screen size of the device being sued to view the site. Multimedia elements like images are also automatically resized, thanks to the Adaptive Image Resizing technology used in the CMS.

Ektron has been the favorite CMS for countless multinational companies for many years now. With the new version, which retains and improves upon all the essential features that made this CMS popular across the globe, Ektron has broken new grounds in ensuring user-friendliness, both for coders and end users. And let’s not forget mobilizing Ektron is pretty much child’s play for developers who have used the previous versions. If you haven’t upgraded to this version of yet, now would be a very good time to start.