= slate Features =

This is a list of features in slate as of v0.4.0 which was released June 7th 2007. These are in no particular order and are, most likely, incomplete.

 * ability to use central LDAP for authentication credentials plus create local accounts for users not in central LDAP
 * multi-site support
 * theme support with theme permissions. based on our workflow for creating sites with dreamweaver templates.
 * three system defined roles for limiting user access to certain actions in the system
 * ability to quickly add users to a site from a central list of approved users
 * per site dashboard to provide easy access to popular editing features and recent changes
 * comprehensive log of admin activity w/ RSS support
 * pretty URLs
 * ability to supply custom 'slugs' when creating pages for shorter URLs
 * drag-and-drop organization of pages.
 * pages are broken into editable regions.
 * user can browse their site in the admin view just like they would in a public view.
 * support for draft content in admin view while public sees only approved published content
 * ability to see site with draft content without editable region CSS styling.
 * versioning
 * redcloth support w/ auto-link generation and proper hard break support
 * in editor preview of content being edited
 * snippet editor support to allow quick creation of dynamic content (e.g. sub-menus, inclusion of files from resource manager, links to other pages in site)
 * blog engine allowing addition of blogs or "newsrooms" to sites
 * media asset manager including support for sets, subsets and auto-thumbnailing
 * podcast-support via media asset manager (audio & video)
 * the ability to set "default content" for editable regions in your site. e.g. a department's physical address on each page
 * zip extract support in resources allowing a user to upload many files at once
 * a new default gallery theme allowing groups to create image galleries
 * custom CSS file  that can be modified via the slate admin tool. this is separate from the theme for a site and allows more flexibility for site admins in defining styles for their site.
 * feedburner support for tracking usage of RSS feeds
 * google analytic support for tracking usage of a site
 * javascript toolbar for textile editing (e.g. FCKEditor)
 * using Rails 1.2.3 and RESTful routes
 
More to come!