What's new?

The Index Widget allows you to easily create a table of contents for your existing magazine pages. Add the Index Widget anywhere on your page and style it according to your preferences. 

The Index Widget automatically displays all pages of your digital magazine that have been published. It can be inserted directly at the page level or used in a container and column layout.

Customize your index:

• Index Type: Index type: Grid or list – determine whether the pages listed in the index should be displayed side by side in a grid or as a list from top to bottom.
• Spacing: Set the spacing between images, between images and text, and between images and the page margin.
• Style title and decription: Use your own colors and font styles for your texts.
• Show and hide individual elements: Decide whether page numbers, subpages, and page descriptions should be displayed.
• Background: Design the background of your index widget with a color or image theme.

  
  

With the Product Carousel Widget, you can present multiple products clearly in an automatically scrolling slider. Each product consists of a headline, an image, a short description (visible in the slider), a detailed description (visible when you click on the product), and a link. You can add as many products as you like, style them individually, and easily duplicate existing products.

In addition to styling, you can also specify whether the link texts should be visible in the carousel or in the detailed view. 

Furthermore, the number of products displayed and their spacing can be customized. 

Use the autoplay switch to determine whether the carousel should move automatically or be controlled manually using the arrow keys. Optionally, the detailed view of the products can also be completely hidden using the toggle.

Detailed view of a product

In the project settings under the Styles tab, you can customize the design of your navigation bar. You can specify the font, font size, line spacing, and text and background colors, including the navigation arrows and their hover effects. All changes you make are immediately displayed in the preview so you can see the result right away.

Currently, the navigation settings are applied to all editions across all projects. Individual styling customization for each edition will be available in the software soon.

You can now specify whether your texts should include hyphenation (hyphenation: auto). Alternatively, you can disable hyphenation (hyphenation: none) so that words are moved to the next line in their entirety if they are too long or the maximum space in the line has been reached. 

This feature can be found wherever typography can be styled (Widgets: Heading, Text Editor, and Link). 

The setting can be adjusted separately for different devices — indicated by the device icon.

Hyphenation of a heading widget in the default setting: Auto

Hyphenation of a heading widget in the setting: None

You can also control hyphenation globally in the project settings >> Styles for your project. The setting will then be applied to your magazine pages if the corresponding styling (H1, H2, H3, etc.) has been selected for the widget.

In the project settings under the Styles tab, you can centrally define colors and fonts for your project and use them at any time in the editor.

Color palette:  

Define your project colors and specify which ones should be used as main colors such as primary, secondary, or accent colors. You can also create additional colors and name them according to their intended use.

Wherever text or background colors can be specified, you can access your global color palette via the globe icon. Quick access ensures that all content is consistent with your individual CI/CD. 

Once you have selected a color, an arrow appears on the right side of the color bar. Clicking on it resets the selection to the software's default colors: Primary = black, Secondary = dark gray, Accent = blue. 

Typographies:

For text and headings (H1–H6), you can also apply overriding typography settings that apply to the entire project. These include: 

• Font
• Font size
• Line hight
• Formatting such as bold, italics, or underlined text 

The changes are immediately visible in the settings and can be viewed for each device. Individual device settings are possible for size and line height; all other options apply across devices. 

In addition, further typographies can be created, freely named, and styled as desired.

Wherever text can be formatted (e.g., in the heading or text widget), you can access the global typography settings via the globe icon. New text widgets automatically adopt the predefined font, font size, and formatting. Headings can be assigned a formatting (H1–H6) in the text type dropdown. 

As soon as you decouple the parent project styles, the individual values change from turquoise to black. If you overwrite all values, the globe will also turn black. This allows you to see at any time whether individual values have been adjusted. 

Clicking on the globe icon—for both colors and fonts—will take you directly to the Styles tab in the project settings, where you can make further adjustments.

You can now create even more personalized designs. Previously, you could only use border radius with the Image, Link, and Social Media widgets.

We have added this feature to additional widgets:

• Container
• Columns
• Heading
• Text Editor
• Video

With these widgets, you can now set rounded edges, full border radius, or completely custom border radius.

Please note that for rounded boxes containing text, you may need to adjust and, if necessary, expand the padding depending on the degree of border radius in order to achieve the best result.

The copyright for media is stored in the media library for the respective medium. For images, it appears by default at the bottom right of the image. For videos, the copyright is also displayed at the bottom right as long as the controls are hidden; when the controls are displayed, the copyright appears at the top right.

New: In the project settings under Legal, you can hide the copyright for the entire project if necessary.

Images:

Videos:

If you want to rearrange the order of your pages, go to the "More options" menu item in the page overview. There, you can move the pages to the desired position using drag & drop.

Heading texts can now not only be edited via the right-hand menu, but also entered directly in the field itself. Styling, however, must still be done through the right-hand menu.

The Audio Widget allows you to embed your own audio files directly on your page. Upload the file in MP3 format and adjust the player size in the right-hand menu using the slider. You can optionally add a small caption using the Alt Text field. 

Please note: The standard audio player is displayed differently depending on the browser. If the minimum width is not reached, the widget can no longer be clicked or played – we have no influence on this.

With our new Novamag Editor, you can bring countless ideas and concepts to life.

Simply select your preferred template via + Add page or + Add content, or start your project with a blank page.

Each template can be customised to your liking and filled with your own content.

We are constantly expanding our templates, so you will soon have access to many more individual templates and ready designed projects.

In the new Novamag Editor, you can give your styles an even more authentic and individual touch with a dividing line (also known as a Divider or Separator).

Place the Divider where you want it on your page and style it to match your design using the toolbar.

The social widget allows you to link your social media channels quickly and easily. Click on a platform to choose from the list of major providers, then add your profile link. You can add as many platforms as you like and decide whether you want to use the original coloured icon, a reduced version or a customised colour scheme.

The spacing, size and alignment of the icons can be easily adjusted in the right-hand toolbar.

To help you build your digital magazine quickly and efficiently, the "Duplicate Pages" feature is now available.

You can duplicate pages

• In the same publication
• In a different publication
• In a different project
• Duplicate to another team

You can also assign pages to another page and thus convert them into a content page, or vice versa:

Add a content page "as a new page" and thus convert it from a content page into a page

What's new is that your duplicated page is not automatically placed as the last page, but appears directly after its original.

Add visually striking moments to your digital magazine in just a few clicks using the image widget.

Our new editor lets you see at a glance which functions are available to you for optimally integrating your image into the appearance of your digital magazine. 

Click action:

Decide what happens when your readers hover over the image.

• None: No action when clicking on the image
• Link: Link your images to an internal or external destination even more easily now

• Lightbox: The image can be expanded by clicking on it. Your readers have access to additional features to enhance their viewing experience.

Further improvements:

You now have more options for determining how your image is displayed:

Aspect ratio: Select your optimal image format.
Scaling: Use the slider to set the image size.
Rounding: Instead of just square corners, you can now round the corners of your image or even achieve a completely round image section.

Image captions: 

You can add a caption to your image using the Alt Text field. The caption only appears in Lightbox mode when readers click to expand the image. Alt texts are also important because they not only create accessibility, but also improve SEO performance.

The new Novamag Editor offers comprehensive options for customising your digital magazine for desktop, mobile and tablet.

Look out for the device icon

The device icon indicates which settings can be customised for the different device sizes. Wherever the device icon appears, you can make different settings for desktop, tablet and mobile.

Determine visibility

Use the toggle to determine the visibility of individual components for the respective device.

• Hide on Desktop
• Hide on Tablet
• Hide on Mobile

Hidden components appear slightly greyed out in the editor in the respective viewport, while in preview mode the components are completely hidden.

Device view

Use the Preview button to switch to preview mode. Click on the respective device to see how your design will appear to your readers on desktop, tablet and mobile devices.

Note: The settings are inherited from the desktop view in order to the smaller tablet and mobile devices. Always start by creating your desktop view before you fine-tune the tablet and mobile display.

The new Novamag Editor makes it easy to present visual media in a visually appealing way. You can choose between two gallery types:

1.) Media Carousel

2.) Media Gallery

The galleries can be customized and adapted to the look and feel of your digital magazine.

Favourite features:

Once you have placed your gallery widget in the desired location on your page, you can add a selection of images to the gallery with just a few clicks using Add Images. 

You can add a caption to the images using the pencil icon. This will be visible when the Lightbox mode is activated and your readers click on the image in the magazine. 

Another new feature is that you can change the size of the carousel within the Media Carousel Widget using the settings Carousel Width.

If you want to embed external content in your digital magazine – e.g. from YouTube, Elfsight, SoundCloud or other third-party providers – this is now easy and secure.

Novamag offers an integrated solution for this with its own Cookie Consent Manager (CMP). This allows you to automatically obtain consent from your readers before third-party content is loaded – without any additional tools or complex configurations.

The advantages of the Novamag CMP solution at a glance:

• GDPR-compliant without additional effort
• No external plugins or tools required
• Fully integrated into the Novamag workflow
• Support for iFrame and script integrations
• Consent query automatically integrated 

Setup in 3 steps:

1.) Activate third-party services in the project (Project settings >> Cookies)

2.) Use the embed widget in the editor (page editing)

3.) Obtain consent from readers (in the digital magazine, instead of the content, a notice with a selection option appears first, which readers must actively agree to before the external content is loaded)

You can find detailed instructions on how to set up your external services in our step-by-step guide:

https://support.novamag.de/de/articles/11960180-cookie-consent-in-novamag-einbindung-externer-inhalte-schritt-fur-schritt

Become part of the Novamag Academy 🎓🚀

Get ready for the new edition of our digital training. 💻

With the help of simple short videos, you will learn step by step how to transfer and edit your content in Novamag. 🎥 

✔️ Get to know the software step by step 

✔️ Tutorials easy to understand

✔️ Educational content can be played as often as you like

✔️ Measurable learning success per chapter

✔️ Certificate after successful completion

You can reach the Novamag Academy via the graduate hat symbol in the sidebar 🎓

No matching image material for your digital magazine at hand? No problem! Find the perfect images and photos for your project directly in Novamag from now on!

In the Modal Media Center, you can now search for high-quality and fitting images for your digital magazine using keywords. With just a few clicks, you can import your selected images directly into any folder in your media library and use them immediately for your digital magazine – free of charge. This ensures your content will truly catch the eye!

Tip: Use English keywords to get more results.

We are constantly developing our media library for you so that you will have more options to design your digital magazines in a stylish and efficient way in the future. 🚀 The new features will be implemented in the software step by step.

The first step involves these changes:

1) New collections can be created using the + Add collection. Simply click in the field and name your collection as you wish. ✨

2) You can now add more media to your media library using the button Upload files. Click on the button to open the Media Centre in the upload window. 🖼️

3) A progress bar is now displayed in the Media Centre when uploading files. Here you can see when the upload has been successfully completed. ✅

4) A turquoise field appears on the left-hand side of the Media Centre. Additional media can be added quickly using the quick action button Upload file. The field will become more relevant in the future. At this point, we are integrating the free stock photo database unsplash.com so that you can search for suitable media for your digital magazine directly in Novamag.

The thumbnails of our design templates now shine in a new design! You can also find them at novamag.de/templates

The new edition is ready and can finally be published? Until now, you always had to take an extra step after each publication and customize the new issue as the start page for your domain under Project settings >> Archive. This is over now!

From now on, the selection “Latest publication” will appear in the drop-down menu. If you select this option, the latest published issue will always and automatically be set as the start page for your domain. 

Good to know: The “Current publication” setting is already set as the default for newly created magazines. 

It is of course still possible to set the archive as the start page for your domain so that your readers see an overview of all your previously published publications as the start page.

The multilevel menu enables media folders, images, videos and other file types to be moved to the desired location. Whereas previously only the top-level folders were displayed when moving a file, all subfolders are now listed. 

In addition, the top level of the media library is marked with the word “Main folder”.

In addition to duplicating text and media blocks, links to content pages can now also be easily duplicated. This saves you a lot of time when styling your pages, as all individual settings are applied when duplicating. The corresponding field is located at the bottom of the page in the Links tab at template level. 

With the new font organization, you can now either search for any font or go back to the last 5 fonts used in the project. This simplifies the styling of texts, as each font is quickly accessible.

The fonts are divided into user-defined fonts (custom fonts) and standard fonts (default). Custom fonts are uploaded to the project by users themselves, while default fonts are automatically available in the software.

The new sorting can be found in all fields in the software where you can select a font.

A template feature that many have been waiting for: In the poker label template, the position of the header and the button can now be changed independently of each other. 

For this purpose, a distinction can be made between top-center, center-center and buttom-center in the corresponding field.

The settings can be made in the page editing in the Media tab.

So far working in Novamag was only possible in English. From now on the system can be set to German. 🗣🇩🇪 💬 💻

How can you change your language? 

If you want to change the language in Novamag, you can do this via your personal profile. Click on your profile picture in the sidebar, navigate via your profile to Details / General contact details to the Language field. Here you can select German or English from the drop-down menu and save.

The Tracking Premium feature is now available. The Novamag Dashboard contains an extended tracking monitor that allows logged-in users to view and analyze all key data on reading behavior independently. 

The Novamag Dashboard appears directly after login or can be accessed by clicking on the Novamag logo. To gain detailed insights into the reading data, the tracking monitor can be expanded with a click.

With the Tracking Premium feature, you can easily keep an overview. You can use the filter function to generate the statistics for individual digital magazines or publications. You won't lose any reading data. Continuously optimize the performance of your digital magazine by tracking the source of your readers and reacting proactively to user behaviour.

The content of the digital magazines can now be made even more tangible, as background videos can now be played with sound. On pages where a background video with a soundtrack is embedded, a sound icon appears in the bottom left-hand corner of the reading view, which is automatically deactivated. Readers can activate the soundtrack by clicking on it.

Whether a background video should be played with or without a soundtrack can be specified within the template by clicking on the sound icon.

Not all videos can be embedded with a soundtrack. If the embedded video has no sound in the original, the sound icon is hidden in the reading view.

Who hasn't been there before: when creating an interview, a timeline or an image gallery, the styling of the individual text and media blocks can be quite time-consuming. 

From now on, created text and media blocks can be duplicated with a simple click. This means that the styling of individual elements, such as the speech bubbles in the Interview Classic template, does not have to be repeated each time.

Only when text and media blocks are added via ADD ELEMENT the individual blocks can be duplicated. This function can be found in design templates in which the Blocks and Medias tabs appear. These are currently as follows:

• Book-Scroll-Slider
• Image-Classic
• Image-Gallery
• Interview-Classic
• Multiple Background
• Poker
• Poker-Label
• Product-Gallery
• Timeline-Classic
• Timeline-Right
• Timeline-Left

All digital magazines are now provided with a new cookie consent. Individual services can now be flexibly activated and deactivated.

The new consent tool also offers users the option of deciding when reading the digital magazine whether they do not want to allow the content of certain services at all, only once or always. If users do not give their consent, external content will be blocked in the digital magazine. All cookie settings can be adjusted at any time via the navigation bar.

The new cookie consent automatically appears in the multi-language magazines in the corresponding language.

The title and description text can be individually styled in the Image Gallery template. Custom fonts, color codes and highlighting can now also be used in an image gallery. 

On our roadmap you can now find all planned major features and find out when they are planned.  

 To our Roadmap

In addition to two logos, the cover content template can also be used to place up to five teaser texts, which can optionally be linked to specific main and content pages.

In the template Book-Scroll-Product it is possible to link the background and/or product image externally and thus create a large clickable area in the reading view.

From now on, the Data Processing Agreement (DPA) for new Novamag customers will be concluded electronically and directly in the software. An orange warning symbol will appear above the team icon for teams that have not yet signed a DPA. It is then possible to see, complete and accept the DPA in the Team Overview. The complete contract is then available to download for your own filing system.

If a DPA has already been signed in the course of the collaboration in the past, the relevant information will appear in the Team Overview from now on. No further action is required in this case. The existing DPA contract remains valid.

With the clone function in Novamag, individual pages or even entire publications can be cloned from one publication to another publication or even to another project. Content pages can also be cloned from one main page to another. With the update of the cloning function, content pages can now also be cloned to a main page and the other way round (main pages can be converted to content pages). This is only possible for all content-enabled templates, meaning that the cover and index templates are excluded.

From now on, images can be opened in single view via a pop-up window. This makes it quicker to edit individual images or add details such as a copyright.

An individual thumbnail can be defined for each video. In the media library, a new thumbnail can be easily uploaded via the individual view of the video by using drag & drop in the Add Thumbnail field.          

In order to trigger the visibility of all changes to a publication directly on the external domain, any user can now use the Purge Publication Cache button in the Page Overview to empty the cache independently.

Novamag provides text modules from common third-party tools that are often used in digital magazines to complete your own privacy policy. The text modules are only legally non-binding samples. Novamag does not offer legal advice. The legal responsibility and review of the use of third-party tools remains with the customer.

Individual text modules can be inserted in the Project Settings under Legal. With a click on the Add Privacy Text Modules button, a pop-up window opens in which the services used by the customer in the digital magazine can be marked with a checkbox. The text modules are available in both German and English and can be edited. Nevertheless, they alone do not replace a data protection declaration.

There are three new functions for videos in the text editor that can be set when inserting a video:

1. Autoplay: If the function is activated, the video starts automatically.

2. Loop: If the function is activated, the video runs in a continuous loop.

3. Muted: If the function is activated, the video is muted.
   
   

Note: Modern browsers only allow the autoplay function if the video is muted at the same time. If Autoplay is selected, the Muted function is therefore activated automatically.

In addition to the status of the individual page, the information box also shows the corresponding page URL (name of the URL) as well as information on when the page has been last updated. If more than one language has been created, you can use the box to quickly switch between the languages and directly recognize which language version you are in. 

Fonts can now be downloaded. Just open the Collection Fonts in the media library, select the appropriate font and download it using the download button.

We are constantly working on optimizing our software. Therefore, it can happen that we release bug fixes or features in the software in the background while someone is working on a page in Novamag. To ensure that the latest editing status is not automatically lost when the page is reloaded, a warning message now appears asking you to save and reload the page. Reloading the page ensures that you are always working in the latest software version.

The legal notice and privacy policy can be styled using the editor in the customer's CD by using your own fonts or colors.

If no legal settings have been defined in a project, including the legal notice and privacy policy, a warning will appear in the Project Overview. 

For a clear layout of the Page Overview, we have summarized several functions in a drop-down menu. The Select Pages function has been added, with which several pages can be selected and deleted under the Actions menu item.

The display and creation of content pages has not only been visually improved, but also functionally optimized. In order to keep things organized in the Page Overview with the numerous pages, the entire content pages can be shown (Show All Contents) or hidden (Hide All Contents) using the buttons. From a number of 11 content pages, these are automatically hidden in order to avoid unnecessarily long scrolling within the Page Overview.    

While the Fonts menu was previously located at the top level in the Project Overview, uploaded fonts are now available at team level and are located in the Files tab. You can easily drag and drop the fonts into the designated font collection as .otf, .ttf or .woff files, in the same way as you would upload media files.

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After a long period of fine-tuning, we are proud to finally present the new software user interface. From now on, Novamag not only appears in a visually adapted and clean design, but also offers you a comfortable application experience as a result of the increased loading speed.

The new software interface is now automatically available to all users after logging in.

We have made the following changes: 

• In the user interface, we have summarized functions in a drop-down menu. Existing functions can be used as usual - you will find some of them rearranged.
  
  
• Functions such as editing publications and opening a preview are now more obviously named and therefore easier for you to find.
  
  
• We have expanded the ability to determine the status of the publication and individual pages in a more differentiated way, so that working together in Novamag is more manageable and effective.