One of the major features of Aptuitiv Studio is the ability to create custom administration forms for pages and apps to fit the data requirements of a particular website.

For example, if you have a page that needs more structured content then a rich text editor can provide, you can create a Content Block Layout for pages and create the form fields that you need. There are the standard fields like select menus, text boxes, textareas and the like. There are also unique fields that allow you to select from a list of Snippets, Navigation Menus and Collection Widgets to include on the page.

We just published 2 small updates to the Forms app in Aptuitiv Studio. The first allows you to set one or more BCC email addresses for the administrator notification email.  The other allows you to choose whether or not you want to automatically include file attachments on the administrator notification email.

Sometimes you're building a website that needs to be locked down and secure. You need the entire website to be password protected and you need the entire website to use SSL (https).

Aptuitiv Studio makes it really easy to do that.  Under Site Settings there are 3 settings that can make an entire site password protected and use SSL.

A big congratulations goes out to Sliced Design who this month has become an Aptuitiv Plus partner!

Sliced Design has been doing great work and growing fast over the course of 2010. President / Web director Jeremy Hamel seems to have a clear vision of what he wants his company to become and is on the fast track to reaching that goal. Here is a blurb from their website that gives you an idea of what they are all about.

As any good search engine optimization practitioner knows the title tag and meta description for a page are important for how your website performs in search engines. While the actual text for the title and meta description are the most important factors, the length of the text is also important.  We've now made it really easy to know how long your page titles and meta descriptions are.

We just published a small update to the form functionality in Aptuitiv Studio. If you have a form where your website visitors can upload files, the only way that you could remove those files from your website was to delete the entire form submission.

Not anymore.

Sometimes when you're building a form you need to set an id or a class on the <form> tag. That's usually done for styling or for attaching some Javascript to the form. It's now easier than ever to do that with Aptuitiv Studio.

We recently added another API parameter to the Navigation API in Aptuitiv Studio that you might find useful.

Last week we rolled out a small update to take care of something that has bugged me for a while. Say you were working on your blog and you wanted to take a look at the home page of the blog. In the past you could click on the "View my site" link at the top of the administration and then navigate to your blog. That works fine, but I wanted it to be even easier.

Sliced Design, one of our partners, recently contacted us with a great feature request. They were building a site with a contact form that needed to have some dynamic default values for some of it's fields. In the site they have links to the form that look like this: site.com/contact?name=Joe. They needed to have the "Name" text box automatically filled with the value from the "name" URL parameter.

Now on the surface this isn't that bad of a request. In their form template they could simply put in some logic to see if the {#global.request.get.name} value exists and then set the value for the Name field. Their request was to make this easier. They simply wanted to set the variable as the default value when setting up the form field.