Our June release is anything but gloomy! We’ve got some sunny new upgrades to our visual theme editor that make branding your Centercode as cool and easy as a summer breeze. And, as always, we've swatted several pesky bugs throughout the month, which are listed below.

improvements

📈  Improvements 📈 

Islands-in-the-streamlined visual themes!

Nothing sets the stage for Official User Testing Business™ like a beautiful, well-branded site. Giving your community and projects a polished and professional look makes testers feel like they're part of your team, which revs their excitement and actually increases participation. That's why, for our June update, we've reorganized and streamlined the Visual Theme tool to make creating and modifying visual themes easier than ever!

This update makes choosing your colors (and knowing where and how they'll appear on your site) a much more intuitive experience. We’ve reduced the number of selections you’ll have to make when creating a theme. Before, many options required manual color selection. Now, certain elements, like menu text, drop-down/fly-out menu backgrounds, and table headers, are determined automagically based on your menu bar color selection, so you can build a cohesive and readable theme in seconds!

Additionally, we’ve added the ability to adjust and review your page background images and text color selections in real time, just make your changes and they’ll appear instantly on the visual theme page! (No more applying the theme to your live site to see the results 🎉) This also extends to the backgrounds for your site and landing pages. Simply select a background tint or image, and it will immediately apply to the preview window, making selecting appropriate text and link colors a breeze. Finally, you'll notice we've added several pre-loaded (and Centercode recommended!) background images. Definitely try them out—these backgrounds (handpicked by Luke 😀) will make your visual theme pop!

NOTE: While we have automated certain color selections that used to be available, you can still adjust these colors manually via custom CSS.

Get creative!

We’ve made a few small but impactful changes to our content and release management menus that make adding new resources as easy as pressing a (much easier to find!) button. The new “Add content” and “Add release” buttons located at the top of their respective management screens take you straight to the resource creation screens, where you can jump straight into creating your new masterpiece! And in case you preferred the previous method, hovering over a content or release type will still show you the “New content/release” button that you know and love.

fixes  

🐞  Bug Fixes 🐞 

Miscellaneous

• Email external destinations for tickets containing file attachments will once again send as expected