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New Christmas Release of Personalized Start Page Script

We want to proudly announce new release of PHPCow's Personalized Start Page script. Today we completed final testing round and now it is available immediate download for all our customers.

Release of 1.1 version is really important as far as it includes significant improvements of underlying infrastructure and new exciting features.

New release includes:

HTML Widget management that allows you to create your own widgets through comfortable interface(see screenshots). HTML Widget management panel includes HTML and CSS markup editors that gives you absolute power for designing your own widgets and additionally you can preview widgets instantly on the same screen.

Layout management - now it is possible to manage dashboard layout and redesign it's parts and adjust it to design of your choice. You can manage following sections of dashboard layout: Splash Screen, Left Sidebar, Right Sidebar and Footer. With great markup editor you can easily manage HTML and CSS codes. Most important part of layout management is that you can manage these parts for each locale separately. Importance of this feature is huge because now you can surround dashboard with content(including any type of Ads) that is appropriate for you business.

Dashboard configuration panel(e.g General Settings) have new enhancements that allows you to improve control over initial configuration settings, now you can decide and set default Locale and Theme.

As a bonus this release includes 50 new affordable widgets, 49 of them were announced awhile ago and additionally new universal HTML widget that is intended for showing widgets created by you.

Below are screenshots of new release that briefly shows all significant parts:

39 Brand New Widgets from PHPCow

Today PHPCow developers completed development of new set of high quality widgets that are amazing addition to already existing widgets. These are feed widgets that cover topics such News, Sport, Entertainment, Tech and Business & Finance. Data is aggregated from the world's most significant and popular news sites and blogs. Demo of the widgets will be available soon at PHPCow Personalized Start Page Demo Site. These widgets are part of new upcoming and very important update of the personalized start page script. Before publicly available working and downloadable version you can see screenshots that are shown below:

Developer Documentation and Developer Version for Widget Developers

We want to proudly announce release of awaited Developer Documentation and Developer Version of PHPCow's Personalized start page. These are extremely useful releases that directly benefits people who are interested in developing their own widgets.

Documentation comprehensively covers most significant parts of the Widget API that are important for widget development. Besides low level API details interested developers will find tutorials of developing fully functional widgets that completely covers whole development and deployment process.

Developer Version of widget framework is a minified version of core framework that includes all necessary APIs that is required for building fully functional widgets. Documentation also covers download and installation details of developer version.

If there are additional details that you are interested in please do not hasitate to send us your feedback or questions. Comments to this blogpost are welcomed as well.