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Projexr 1.0 Release & PX-Contact Add-On

December 30, 2009

Well, after two months of development, loads of planning, and bunch of decisions, design work, and UI stuff... I've released Projexr 1.0, for real. No more beta. Though it isn't perfect, it's pretty, it's small, it's fast and it's pretty bad ass, if I do say so myself. What's to come? All sorts of stuff, but I need to be careful. I want Projexr to be lightweight, and to the point.

Projexr was intentionally not created in typical MVC format. In fact, it might be down right unconventional, by today's standards. But that's the beauty of it. I'm sure as Projexr moves on through the versions and upgrades a few things will definitely get better. Namely, the update process - right now, it's manual. If you're using Projexr, and need help with upgrading a current install, contact me.

PX-Contact Add-On (release TBD)

Honeslty, Projexr would have been released sooner if it wasnt' for this epic add-on. PX-Contact is a dynamic form generation application that allows you to create forms, style them, and embed them via the CMS panel... at will. This first iteration is for small site usage; but there is no limit to how many forms you can create (that I've found), and the database schema for it is flexible and stable.

There is also an optional "send mail" function with customizable attributes, which will also be improved upon in the PX-Contact final release coming, as well as PX-Contact Plus which will feature a fully dynamic Ajax-powered form builder, and a few more optional features I ended up wanting, but not including in PX-Contact (such as Export contacts to Excel).

More to come to Projexr the site: 

  • Documentation, I released Creating Themes, but changed so much from beta1 to 1.0r1 ... it just didn't make sense anymore.
  • Add-on Store.
  • Theme Store (powered by Themerous.com, no doubt - which is a Projexr website, I might add)
  • Site Showcase - I want to have a listing of Projexr powered sites

More to come to Projexr the product: 

  • PX-Gallery : A photo plug-in
  • PX-Login : User controls and restricted site sections
  • PX-News Plus : News Blogging Platform
  • PX-Contact Plus : Advanced Contact Form Application

Stay tuned for more good stuff from Projexr.

~ Enrique

Some Improvements

December 2, 2009

Pleased to announce, after a little fun and excitement - Projexr now supports multi-tiered navigation. Though the implementation is still crude, the functionality is there for you to CSS and mash up to your heart's content.

In other news, a documentation add-on has been written: "Creating Themes".

When reading in conjunction with the px-white theme included in the download, it really is a lot easier than it reads on paper. Consider the Creating Themes document a cheat sheet of sorts.

Other stuff:

  • Altered the index.php file in core-projexr to properly read Rewrite variables
  • Altered px-engine to support multiple tier navigation
  • Optimized getNav as well as getPageContent queries to decrease load times on content

What's next? Add-ons and more themes

  • Add-on: PX-Contact Plus
  • Add-on: PX-Contact
  • Add-on: PX-News Plus
  • Add-on: PX-Photo
  • Theme: Grungetastic 1.0

Be on the look out for some uber-awesome goodness coming from Projexr the closer we get to global domination. Until then, as always, if you have questions or comments we're here: team@digithrive.com

What's Coming?

August 17, 2009

There are things I want to put into Projexr, that probably goes without saying. Here's a brief list of what I have in store for this project: 

  1. Export / Import SQL
    • Support of multiple formats
    • Allow to customize which parts (or whole) of the site you'd like to Export and/or Import
  2. Javascript enabled Add-ons
    • Specifically with PX-Contact, I'd like to have a JS form validation
  3. Better Add-on management and creation
  4. Improve deployment for PX-Config requirements
  5. Call-home for updates and automatic upgrades
  6. Dashboard/Projexr news integration
  7. Native "easy-rollover" support, I want to make one more better and with effect.
    • If anyone knows of something that's coded well, easy to use, and awesome
    • Contact us
  8. Form validation in the Admin console's coming too

Themes, I'd like to release 4 new free ones for fun... and gotta get the documentation done so you kids can make'm yourselves. Other than that? More stuff! I just want more stuff.

We're Here!

August 17, 2009

This project took two years to plan, and this is the first of five stages. That just means that if you grab what I got now, it'll only get better, but you'll already like what you see. Projexr CMS took 6 months to develop, on and off, and was developed to be lean & mean. I wanted to get something that'll get it done, and to the point.

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