Smart Sites is most definitely my biggest project yet, and it has a lot of key features that need to be perfected before a large amount of use. Manually correcting a few user's errors isn't a big deal, but as the site grows, it will get extremely tedious to update each user's files individually to add new features, and that is why I've rebuilt the entire Smart Sites inner framework. To any user, no change was ever made, as the site is accessed and used in exactly the same way, however, the entire setup of every user-created file is completely different. Before, each user got a sub-directory in the root of the site, where the main framework for Smart Sites was copied to when the site was set up. Now, when a user sets up a site, the framework is not copied, but linked to from a secure directory, making every user's site run off of the exact same file. This way, if a change is necessary, only a single file needs to be changed, and every user's site will be updated automatically the next time it is accessed.
Users will soon have the ability to more accurately control their site's layout, introducing options of fonts, widths and heights, sidebar location, and basic color schemes.
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