Presenting Athena 2008 Beta 1

I’m proud to announce that as of 10pm BST (GMT+1) on 1st August 2008 Athena 2008 Beta 1 is officially available for download.

WARNING: THIS IS A BETA PEICE OF SOFTWARE!

Words of warning:

• This release is a beta product and has bugs
• The user cannot save the customisation changes that he/she has made
• Transparencies do not work
• Header background images are all that are allowed now
• Form background image (main base background image) is a gradient effect in this release, and is configurable.
• No CSLive controls are installed, although you can add CSLive 1.0 Controls after installation

Download either the Web or Windows Installers, and extract them into your community server installation.  Once done you should see the athena 2008 theme in your control panel.

Included in this package is 1 header image, released at the same time as Athena 2008 will be Athena 2008 Header Image Pack 1.  This package will contain a set of images that need to be uploaded into a gallery in community server.  Once this has been done set the relevant settings in the site theme settings under the Athena Tab.  Note that you can tag these images for better filtering of a gallery.

To Download Athena 2008 Beta 1:

1. browse to http://www.nbdev.co.uk/media/g/athena/tags/Athena+2008/default.aspx
2. Download 1 of the 2 installer files

(Optional) Download the Header Image Pack