andreasviklund.com

Just a quick update about updates and new versions of some of the tools I work with every day…

Software

A new version of my favorite CSS design tool, Style Master, has been released. It is version 4.6, and among the news it has IE7 added to the browser list. If you are interested in CSS-based web design I warmly recommend you to try Style Master, it is simply a great tool (commercial, US$60).

And while I'm into design software, I also found a new version of my favorite code editor, Notepad++ (freeware). Version 3.9 has been out for more than a month, but it is still new to me.

CMS / Scripts

WordPress has also been updated, this time into version 2.0.5. I'm planning to upgrade this site today, but I'm still waiting impatiently for version 2.1 which has lots of new features that I'm looking forward to use. I'm running a recent nightly build (labelled as v2.1-alpha3) on one of my test servers, but even though it works really good so far I'm not brave enough to use an alpha version on my main site…

And finally, sNews v1.5 by Solucija is out in a third release candidate. I have tested it, and I will definitely want to use it in future projects. If you need a well-structured, lightweight, simple and easy-to-learn content management system for your site, it could be a great idea to give sNews (which is free and open sourced) a shot. If you want to learn more about sNews, also check out these resource sites: sNews.ca, Free-CSS-Templates, mysNews and the sNews forum.