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6.0
Image/video grids now support a horizontal slider layout, with smooth animation and full interactivity, and configurable gallery, flow, and carousel presentation styles
The new before/after image widget is perfect for showing edits, transformations, or comparisons on your website
Editing is faster with the in-window preview; a shortcut toggles edit and preview modes
AI website generation now lets you customize your site's color palette and produces smarter, less generic text that better follows your instructions
Images can now be protected in a number of ways: prevent drag-and-drop, add copyright metadata, reduce resolution; and a powerful technique to hide the image from web searches and AI, and prevent downloading the image via the page source
You can now prevent AI bots from crawling or using your website content
Hover animations are now available on most page elements
Gallery slides now support borders, rounding, and shadows
The cookie banner now support cookie types (e.g. functional, analytics, marketing), with individual embeds and third-party content responding to user choices
Embedded content now supports two-step activation, allowing users to opt in later if consent was initially denied on the cookie banner, and enabling compliance with regulations like TTDSG in Germany
Google Analytics and Tag Manager now support Consent Mode 2
The website Assistant now checks accessibility for form labels, text contrast, and link descriptions for assistive technologies
You can now add a text description to links, for accessibility
Grid lightbox can extend to full browser window for immersive slideshows
Image descriptions can now be generated by AI, to make your site accessible faster
Form fields now support associating a text labels (or the more modern placeholders as floating label) for accessibility
The Sitely canvas is now accessible, by adding assistive technology navigation support
You can now integrate Rive animations, for lightweight interactive graphics
Gradients now support multiple color stops, in boxes/buttons background and borders, and use smoother perceptual color (OKLCH)
You can build forms across layout blocks and popups, triggered by option selection elements
New image miniature effect
Canvas can now be set to zoom to the page width, for smoother device switching
Popups can auto-close after a set interval
The page language is now used for on-page UI elements
You now add an on click action to switch language in multi-language websites, that always switches to the configured page in the destination language
You can now deliver a contact form thank you message via a popup, instead of going to a page
You can now opt to format the contact form email on two side by side columns
Contact forms are now more resilient to spam, through more accurate bot detection and automation tools
Contact form message deliverability is improved by validating the sender address
Publishing setup is now improved and streamlined, with better detection of edge cases and enhanced server compatibility
You can now perform simple calculation in inspector text fields, like say a box is 37+14 pixels wide
Built on JPEG XL research, Sitely now uses cjpegli to create smaller JPEGs that load faster without sacrificing detail
You’ll now see a warning if an on click action is placed in a group that already has an on click action, the inner link was previously silently ignored
You can set the canvas zoom level to "Fit Page Width" to switch between devices and always have a zoomed in view
Added Korean localization
5.6
Sparkle renamed to Sitely
added the ability to place "normal" popups in layout blocks or groups, so they move with the content
added the ability to apply the fill/fit grid gallery mode to all images at once
added an image replace option for gallery images
added the double click gesture on the bottom handle of text frames, to resize a text box to fit the text
added support for full width Lottie animations
added more date formats to the date Smart Field
added Copy Link option to link sharing
added the ability to add a link to the "current" page, for links visible in all pages
improved page loading performance
improved Figma importer quality and font weight matching
improved AI website generator performance and quality
changed the in-canvas visibility of elements to be per-project
removed the ability to set video opacity for YouTube videos, in compliance with YouTube terms of service
implemented workaround for broken CSS optimizers used in web servers and CDNs (mod_pagespeed, cloudflare)
implemented workaround for Safari bug causing galleries inside hidden layout blocks to flicker (iOS Safari)
implemented workaround for mobile audoscaling causing scroll position jump (Android Chrome)
implemented workaround for the size of Instagram embedded posts being wider than mobile device width
5.5
added extraction of images from PDF pages, to a gallery or an image grid
added rounded corners option for videos
added ability to drag and drop movies to grid inspector
added ability to import options from a text file, for option selection form elements
added ability to slide through images in a gallery lightbox, like for grid galleries
added settings option for user interface language preference
added work around for bugs in some FTP server causing upload of many images on every upload
added work around for some web host setups preventing automated FTP setup
added work around for a popular mobile browser breaking Sparkle's video player
improved handling of video and image files in Image/Video Grid
5.0
Added AI-powered website generator
Added image/video grid with multi-device support built-in lightbox support
Added generic grid layout block
Added Figma import plugin
Added layout block anchors
Added layout block snap scrolling
Added horizontal background shift for boxes
Added full width sizing for text boxes
Added background remover features: bokeh, foreground defocus, solid color background
Added anchor smooth scrolling with easing
Added layer panel filtering
Added text link hover/active/visited states
Added video with popup behaviors: autoplay when opening, auto-closing popup when autoplay ends
Added text effects: background clip and knockout
Added hover support for button image
Added “force download” option for file download
Added form slider
Added calculator smart field for forms
Added date range option for popups
Added box and layout box blending mode
Added new interaction options: media control, social sharing, text message sending, expand/collapse layout blocks, run js code (developer option)
Added subject and body to the “open email” on click action
Improved website load/save performance, particularly for large project files
Improved animations: parallax clip, one time reveal and subtle fade
Improved layout block editing
Improved accessibility: font icon name is added to SVG
Improved website importer
Improved text handling: HTML Tag is now per paragraph
Improved SVG rendering
Improved performance of the published page: removed use of jquery on initial page load and lots of other baseline features, added variable width font support, AVIF image compression, browser-native lazy image loading, removed secondary js file, updates for current attention to web vitals, about 1/3 fewer images generated
Updated font index, now over 1600 fonts
4.5
Added macOS Ventura compatibility
Improved support for mixed script text (roman plus CJK or emoji text)
Improved stability of layout block editing
Improved site search fuzzy string matching
Improved mobile autoscaling
Improved stability of the website import process
Improved image resolution selection for some Android phones
4.2
Added option to import a full website from file menu
Added filtering visible canvas elements based on logged in user
Added group-specific page following login
Added combined pages and layers view in the left sidebar
Added option to not password protect sensitive data
Added scrolling of layers list to the selected element
Added support for Google Analytics 4
Added support for Meta/Facebook Pixel
Added support for Matomo analytics
Improved user interface for password protection options
Improved user interface for the arrange settings
Updated Fontawesome to version 6. 1. 1
4.1
Added email/phone/number validation for form text input
Added placeholder color for form dropdown list
Added progress indicator when publishing user accounts
Added warnings when changing footer or visibility could make pages longer
Added support for calendly v2 api
Added ability for ecwid category browser to go full width
Added ecwid default category for product browser
Added copying original svg source in pasteboard when copying box or image containing svg
Added german/french/italian documentation links
Improved site search text snippets
Improved page performance by adding workaround for browsers loading images hidden on devices
Improved reliability of layout blocks behavior
Improved user interface layout, clarity and translations
4.0
Password protected pages and user management, to add member areas or restricted content
SEO keyword targeting, to optimize content for organic search
Playback with scrolling for video elements, lottie animations and page background video
Support for Dark Mode color theme
AI-powered image background remover
New Sitely icon
6 new responsive, Dark Mode aware designs
Layout Blocks for more agile layout
Website summary view
Ultra wide 1920 device
Device size customization for wider device layouts
Auto-scaling for mobile layout
Fontawesome and Google Material Design icons
Smart Fields for logged in users
PayPal subscription support
One-time popup open across visits (using a cookie)
Blog tags, blog index filtering by tag
Publishing draft blog posts
Improved blog RSS feed compatibility with feed readers
Organization metadata
Form dropdown selector
Form file attachments
New SEO checks
Element visibility specific to Dark Mode
Element visibility based on user login status
Countdown with number of days
Pexels stock image integration
Reference nearest image for EXIF data extraction
Support for Safari 15 theme color and tab bar safe area
Map location loaded from image EXIF
Per-folder CSS size optimization
Facebook verification metadata
Improved Web Vitals metrics for your website
Improved resiliency of publish location storage
Improved compatibility with international domain names (IDN)
Removed IE 8/9 and Android 4 support workarounds
3.1
Added resizable sidebar (macOS 10.14+)
Added "deny" consent button to cookie banner, for compliance with regulation in many EU countries
Added position at which scroll effect starts (top/middle/bottom)
Added "filename" smart field where it was missing
Added forced restart when Sitely is moved or renamed in the Finder
Improved map integration to support API-key based basic maps
Improved memory use on some iMacs (macOS 11.3+)
Improved Instagram integration
Improved performance when editing large projects
Improved performance when dragging labels in galleries with large images
Improved contact form spam resilience
Improved compatibility with some third party integrations
Improved compatibility with browsers
3.0
A redesigned, understated, sharper UI
New look for macOS Big Sur
New Sitely icon
SEO assistant and health check: insights to optimize your website
Layers view
6 new template designs
Template picker when creating a new website
Option to import entire website
Editing of a multi-selection
Options to apply changes to all images in a gallery
Ability to drag and drop a page between project windows
Options to collapse sidebars
New device layout state settings for faster responsive design workflow
Integrated links to documentation
QR Code to open preview on mobile
Microsoft Edge and Brave browser preview support
Passwordless, key based SFTP authentication
Copy current page URL and RSS URL to the clipboard
Character count for page title and description
Preview of the cookie banner, and its effect, on all pages
Text replace
New features for a better website
A built-in blog with automatic index generation
Custom post content for the index and RSS
Automatic RSS generation
Mega menus (using in-page popups with button hover)
Full screen mobile menus (using fixed position popups with animation)
Modal banners, offers, etc (using modal popups with timer or scroll based display)
