We added a lot of new options to the Sign In tool last year, including the ability for a user to change his/her password or email a forgotten password.
More importantly, because we can use javascript to do our animations, it makes it really simple to integrate the XML from a News Feed tool with our jQuery scripts to create a really great animated slider. This means that you can add/remove/edit your animated slides just as simply as adding any article to a News Feed.
The flexibility of the News Feed lends it to all sorts of uses. So much so, that it can often be used as it's own development platform. Our new Featured Projects section of our website is a great example of how we can use a standard News Feed tool to develop complex applications for the web.
Since Sitemason templates are XSL based, they play extremely well with standard HTML/Javascript/CSS, etc. One benefit of this is that it allows integration with third party applications to be seamless. For example, our Sitemason site search is powered by Google Custom Search. Google makes a slew of products that are extremely simple to drop in a standard website, and Sitemason can work with just about all of them.
The ultra-popular micro-blogging tool Twitter also makes javascript embed-able tools that drop right in a Sitemason template. We've made use of one on our home page. If you use Twitter, you should go ahead and follow us so you don't miss out on future announcements and important news... or more often random musings on the web.



Site Sharing, the ability to share control of a site with another Sitemason user, has been one of the top requests for Sitemason for a long time. It is now ready and in place.

Much like tool sharing, you will find a tab in your Site Builders named “Share This Site” where you can choose who to share it with and which tabs of your Site Builder they can see. The shared site will automatically show up in the other users’ Site Managers as a new green Shared Site.
All the pages and tools inside the site are automatically shared as well. If you would like to limit access to individual tools, use the tool’s “Share This Tool” tab to override the site’s share settings.
Instructions can be found in Sharing Control of a Site in the Sitemason User Guide.