Silex new features: dashboard & sections

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Dashboard

Here is the new dasboard, which shows up when you open Silex (try it here on editor.silex.me).

In the dashboard you can do these actions:

• Open an existing website, either by importing it from a cloud storage or by selecting it in the list of recent websites you have opened
• Select a “blank layout” help wanted, give a description
• Select a template and start adding your content in a pre-made, ready to use website

Read the docs on the Dashboard here.

The Dashboard looks like this:

Sections

Here is the documentation on [Silex building

Sections make it possible to do the following

• header/footer pattern
• stripes layouts like in these great website designs
• hero images (see wikipedia definition of hero images here)
• websites with pages of different height
• rearrange content (move sections up/down with keyboard arrow keys)

A new template for the new version

There is a new template, here is how it looks and how to customize it: