There are two significant changes to Site Builder that may delight, puzzle or frustrate you, depending on whether or not they break something on your site. I kid, I kid. They probably won't break anything.

One of the changes was extremely simple, in concept. Instead of storing your files inside of your site's folder, we used to store them in a separate location. Disk space and file flexibility were the driving factors in making this decision, and file statistics weren't on anyone's radar yet.

(Incidentally, the decision was made many years ago when the internet was but a child, a small series of coffee stirring straws that would later grow into actual tubes.)

We recently upgraded our Web server and have more than enough disk space to handle site files now, so Karl and I decided to move the file storage location. This change was as simple as adding a bit of complex code to 68 places within the vast amount of Site Builder source code.

After that headache was complete, we decided to also write a file transfer tool, so that users would not have to re-upload each and every file on their site. Some of our sites have over 2,000 files in their libraries! Granted, these are mostly animated GIFs of the 4-H clover slowly turning in a circle, but transferring even 20 files by hand would be a chore.

As you can see from the screen capture at the top of the page, the file migration tool is available on the dashboard of Site Builder. Click the link to open the popup, and then click "Migrate Me" to complete the process.

The second major change to Site Builder is the new WYSIWYG text editor, the handy little tool that allows users to do this and this and this₂ without knowing any HTML.

The new editor is built into the ColdFusion framework which we use to create our Web applications. It's easier to implement, more stable, and does not mangle forms and anchors like our last editor.

I've seen a few pages display poorly after using the new editor, but they were all longer pages with many font and format enhancements. If you happened to own one of these pages, drop me a line and I'll help you clean it up.