CS 2.1 Feature Love
I've been working with CS 2.1 quite a bit and there are a few things that I'm mad in love with about the new system (there's a lot more to the new version than I'm going to talk about here but these are the things that I'm really stoked about):
- Moveable, resizable modal windows - when you go to edit a content part, you can now drag the edit window wherever you want and enlarge the edit space or whatever - that's really nice!
- More blog rollers - I believe it's officially called Content Mirroring and it's not a big deal for my personal site at this point but you can now create multiple rss rollers - this is a really simplified explanation of what is probably a much bigger deal for my personal site which is that you can now include rss aggregation directly within your blog. This is quite mind-blowing.
- Streamlined posting - there are new options on the post creation form to: save and continue editing, save but don't publish, and publish. Categories have been replaced with tags which should be on a line by itself but now when creating a post, your categories/tags are right there under your post so you don't have to switch off the Post tab to create and categorize your post.
- New syndication - Feedburner support! If you want, you can off-load your syndication to a 3rd party such as feedburner - visitors who hit your RSS will be redirected to feedburner. Scott Watermasysk noted that you can configure your account with feedburner to keep your domain if you'd like.
So - go git some Community Server! Rumor has it the next version is codenamed Chameleon - is that the group that did Ridin' Dirty? I love that song!