New TinyMCE WebSite
December 20th, 2010 by 
Spocke Finally we got the new web site out the door. This new site is a complete redesign and it also contains a lot new community features. We have described each of the features below you feedback is always welcome so that we can continue to improve the community functions.
Issue tracker
We have now moved away from the SourceForge issue tracker and built our own custom one. This gives us the ability to add exactly the features we want such as bug voting and tie it to GitHub. It should now be a lot faster to work with since SourceForge was a pretty slow service. We will also be more responsive when it comes to resolving bugs now when we have a more easy to use tool.
Wiki
The Wiki was moved from MediaWiki into a custom Wiki that uses HTML and TinyMCE for it’s editor interface. The wiki lets you structure pages into a page tree and supports syntax validation for source code samples.
Translation Service
A popular feature of the old site was the translation service that enabled uses to translate TinyMCE to it’s native language. We have improved this feature for the new site and it’s now possible to both translate and preview the results on the site. It makes it a lot faster and easier to contribute language packs to the project and those contributions are always welcome.
API Documentation
The documentation has been improved and one of these improvements is the API documentation. This one is now inline inside the wiki, it’s exported out of the source code of TinyMCE using our Moxiedoc tool and users can comment on the different parts of it. It’s very similar to how www.php.net has it’s documentation.
Examples
The example section has been improved by moving all examples into categories. We will continue to add more examples here and any feedback on what to add here is always welcome.
Custom download packages
A common complaint we see regarding TinyMCE is that people say it has to many files. So we wanted to change that, the site now includes a tool for only selecting the components you need and save this as a preset on your account. Then each release you can simply just download the preset package.
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The site looks very nice and I’m sure it will serve you well.
There is one problem – the use of very gray text, especially in the forum. I know that gray and slate text is all the rage right now because I have clients who ask for it. I work very hard to talk them out of it because it is extremely hard to read. Designers clearly see this because to compensate they open up line spacing to provide more wite space.
I urge you to consider darker text and more normal line spacing. There is a reason that books and newspapers and most magazines print dark on light.
Thanks.
December 20th, 2010 at 22:31Oops, “white” space, not wite space.
December 20th, 2010 at 22:32I also find it a bit hard to read. Especially the links will look into changing the colors a bit.
December 20th, 2010 at 22:40Very nice a new site… but for now now link on Google to youre new site works. It only shows the homepage…
December 21st, 2010 at 11:50I think it’s a little radical to completely remove the old site, as I cannot seem to find it directly on the new site.
Can you look at the rewriting rules please? They’re redirecting book marks and search engine results to the home page.
Some examples of API calls in the api docs would be useful too!
December 21st, 2010 at 12:15We will continue to add redirects to common links to the old site. The most common pages is already resolved and is redirecting. And google links will become correct as soon as the spider picks it up.
December 21st, 2010 at 16:20Grey on white text is an accessibility nightmare, and too many clicks required to get to the documentation.
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:04We are fixing the text color now to a darker color and increasing the text size slightly.
December 22nd, 2010 at 13:21