This update of the free responsive website designer includes a lot of new features. You can download it here.
Note that if you are using the professional edition, you need to upgrade your license, but there is a discount for existing users.
New in this release:
Bulleted lists support
Also known as ordered and unordered lists, RocketCake now natively supports creating these directly in the editor. It generates <ul> and <ol> HTML tags from them, and supports unlimited sublevels of lists.
Although easily edited directly in the text in the editor, generated HTML <ul> and <ol> lists get their own unique ids and style classes which then can be easily customized via CSS manually if wanted.
Emoji support
Emojis and other characters are now encoded correctly even when the option "no html encoding" isn't selected. This means you can now easier use Emojis, Rockets and other unicode characters on your website.
Note: On some Windows systems, these are still drawn in black/white in the editor, but are correctly shown in the browser preview.
Round navigation menu panels
It's now possible to create round navigation menu panels. For that, simply set "edges" of your navigation menu to "round", and check the new option "RoundEdgesAlsoForPanes". Then your navigation menus are also round. If you don't want the top menu bar to have round edges as well, simply make its background transparent and place it into a container of which you then apply the background you want to have for your top menu.
PDF document
you can now embed PDF files directly in your website using the new PDF element. Simply create the element where you want your file to appear, select a PDF from your local disk, and RocketCake will handle the rest, including uploading the .pdf file to your server once you publish your page.
New Templates
There are 3 new built-in templates for your websites, and the existing ones have been improved a bit.
Better looking Slideshows
Slideshows now can use a fixed aspect ratio, and new slide shows you create automatically do this. This means they automatically adjust their height based on the screen size and images inside them. Previously, in order to have a slideshow look nicely in all screen sizes, this would have to be done using breakpoints, while now, slideshows automatically adjust their size.
In order to have slide shows from projects created in older RocketCake versions to this, simply check the option "FixedAspectRatio".
Added new supported device types
Apple iPhone 12
Google Pixel 5
Samsgung S20
Samsgung S21
Improved generated HTML
The generated HTML and CSS code has been improved at several places to be both nicer readable and more compact at the same time. And the backwards compatibility with older browsers is still kept.
Portable version
RocketCake is now available as portable package - a zip file which you can simply download and use everywhere without installation.
For this, go to the download page of RocketCane and download the latest RocketCake-$version$-portable.zip file.
MSI installer
There is now an MSI installer available on the download page. In case you want to deploy RocketCake on lots of Windows PCs, you can use this. It also supports silent install.
macOS UI improvements
Options dialog is now also accessible via the top level main menu, and quitting the app via Apple+Q now also
asks for saving the file when there are still unsaved changes in your project.
Lots of other improvements
HTML Video elements no longer have 'autoplay' set by default
The documentation (for example about the navigation menu) has been improved and extended with images, examples and more.
Automatically reduced large images now are reduced to a bit larger size so they look better on larger screens.
Updated support for more types of FTP servers
Toolset palette is now looking a bit more modern
Improved uploading method: files uploaded when skipped not to be re-uploaded again next time sometimes.
Improved english translation of the editor at some places
Images with alpha channel are now also drawn correctly with alpha channel in editor view
Improved chinese translation
lots of other smaller improvements everywhere
