Boonex has been working hard on the new release of Dolphin v7 as they’ve not only ramped up the user interface but also the premium to buy a license or licenses for this open source solution.  For a developer, it’s nice that the code is still open rather than the many encoded versions out in the market-place.

We have been developing mods for Boonex for quite some time and when we first took a look at the new release we were impressed with the new front end layout and design.  However, the backend….for a non-developer the HTML block is not user friendly  in our opinion.

1. The size of the code area is designed for midgets.

2. You can only hard-code this section, not user friendly for newbies or non-technical clients.

3. Not only have we added the CKEditor to the HTML_Block but also it will replace anywhere that the TinyMce editor was in D7, so be it news, articles, groups, events the new editor will be CKEditor.

Update October 12, 2010:

CKEditor for  D7 – D7.0.8 released

Demo site: http://browserweb.com/CK708/

So we’ve developed a mod just for this purpose and you can watch the video tutorial here:

You can purchase our CKEditor mod for a token sum of $35.00 USD here:

We have also now upgraded the default TinyMCE editor that comes with Boonex Dolphin D7 – watch the video here:

If you are running a free and vip / paid membership site, then you need to be able to offer increased incentives and features to become a paying member.  Just now in Dolphin all members get to upload x amount of images to their profile. With this mod admin set the number of photos a free and paying member get to upload to their profile, see screenshot for example.

Great tool for sites that have various memberships and you wish to control number of photos members can upload.