The biggest update since Visualbook launched. A connection to AI assistants through secure sign-in, an improved editor, a choice of 6 languages (CS, SK, PL, EN, DE, ES), a new interactive hotspots module, alt text management and many other improvements. And everything is now a bit faster thanks to optimisation and a faster server.

AI connector (MCP)

You can now connect Visualbook to an AI assistant — ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex — and work on your manual through an ordinary conversation. Your AI agent works directly with your content, under the same rules and the same permissions you have in the admin. This will genuinely speed up your work.

It helps you build

• It creates pages and sections from your instructions — "add a content page called Iconography with an intro text and an icon section using the icons you will find in the local folder".
• It writes and fills in texts, sets brand colours, typography and the cards on the home page.
• It uploads files (logos, fonts, images) and links them into sections.
• It can look at another public Visualbook and propose a similar manual structure as a skeleton for you to fill in.

It helps you edit

• Bulk text edits across pages from a single instruction.
• Translations – it finds untranslated texts, translates them and shows you a preview first, saving only afterwards.
• Image alt texts, renaming files (links keep working and the new name carries over to the export ZIP).
• Ordering and hiding cards and sections, slugs, moving and duplicating pages.
• Quality check – it goes through the same "Tips for improvement" list you see in the panel and offers fixes.

How it connects

• By signing in – you paste your manual's address into the assistant and sign in with your Visualbook account. Simple and secure.
• The assistant has exactly your permissions.
• Your account → MCP connectors – you see what is connected, when it was last used, and you can revoke access in one click. Changing your password disconnects everything.
• It never touches sensitive fields (passwords, API keys) and respects the same constraints as the panel (allowed values, ranges, maximum lengths). Deleting pages and files remains up to you in the admin. The agent cannot delete anything.

Public read-only mode – you can optionally enable an address that anyone from your team or a client can paste into their own AI. The assistant then gets a much better overview of your Visualbook than it would by going through it page by page.

Editing directly on the site

You no longer have to go into the panel for every change — click the pencil and edit the content right where you see it.

• Texts – inline editing of headings, captions and paragraphs including the full formatting toolbar (the same one as in the admin).
• Images – replace, upload a new file or pick from the section library. Previews work for fonts and TIFF files too.
• Buttons – change the label, the type and the target (link, page, file, e-mail).
• Icons – add, remove, reorder and upload your own SVG.
• Galleries – reorder photos with the mouse (drag & drop), edit gallery buttons.
• Cards and sections – reorder cards on overview pages, edit card headings, the info box type and table cells.
• Hotspots – move points on an image and edit their texts.
• Protection against losing changes – if you leave with unsaved edits, the site speaks up. We've also added keyboard shortcuts.
• Editor dialogs are shown in the language of the site.

Six languages

• The admin is fully translated into Czech, English, German, Polish, Spanish and Slovak — including help texts, error messages, edit history and statistics.
• The site is no longer tied to the Czech + English combination. You can choose any pair of languages.
• Automatic content translation has a new industry glossary for all six languages, so branding terminology stays consistent.
• The page slug is regenerated correctly after the title is translated — an English page called Logos no longer stays at /loga just because you forgot about it.
• The translation check can also report untranslated slugs.

A new text editor across the whole project

We have converted the text fields to a WYSIWYG editor — you see immediately how the text will look.

• Full formatting toolbar: headings, lists, checklists, tables, links, images, quotes, code.
• Images and links render normally in the editor, not as markup.
• Existing content was converted automatically — you don't have to rewrite anything by hand.
• Czech typography: single-letter words (a, v, z, k…) no longer get stranded at the end of a line, and we also watch out for prepositions with a hyphen ("e-mail").

New and improved modules

• Interactive hotspots – points on an image with a tooltip. New: numbered points, a "Texts below the image" mode, automatic opening of the first tooltip, adjustable corner radius and appearance.
• Icons – a new variant with groups (grouped layout).
• Code sample – collapsible additional content below the sample.
• Typography – support for Lottie animations in the typeface preview, editing of accordion buttons.
• Cards – text cards unified into a single field with reordering on the site.

Alt texts

• A new "Alt texts" menu item – bulk management of image alternative texts in one place, without clicking through individual pages.
• The alt field is available for all file types, and the file overview shows you where an alt text is missing.
• Galleries render alt texts correctly (SEO + accessibility).

Logo and brand

• Logo usage guidelines have their own tab and a live preview gallery — you see what a rule looks like, including the variant on a colour background.
• Clear space: a new dialog with a visualisation and a slider for a custom value.
• Links to logo groups are permanent (they don't break when something is renamed).
• Multibrand: a sub-brand inherits typography and corner radii from the main Design when it is created, and sub-brand favicons are applied immediately.

Site status and checks

• A site check in the form of a roadmap – you get a clear view of what is still missing and one click takes you straight to the field in question.
• New checks: missing logos, contact e-mail, empty sections, draft sections, untranslated texts and slugs, card descriptions, layout.
• Storage usage statistics right in the overview.

Speed

• Site: smaller CSS/JS, brotli compression, caching of previews and links — faster loading, especially on large pages.
• Admin: a significantly snappier Logo page, file overview, Alt texts and search. Parts of the panel now load only when you really need them.
• Search in the panel shows filters right on the first load.

Security and privacy

The whole project went through a security audit — we hardened the protection of content, links, exports and content embedded from other services. All Visualbooks 6.0.0 run on the Kirby core version 5.5.3 or higher.

Export

• Static export: fixed permalinks, missing card images in the offline version, the font in the typography card.
• AI export (Markdown): six-language labels, no hidden content, cleaner output.

Small things and fixes

• When a page can't be saved, the panel tells you exactly what is missing — for example "The password is too short (at least 12 characters)" and on which row — instead of a generic "fix the form".
• When you upload a file or save changes in the admin, the side drawer no longer closes — you stay in the item you were working on and don't have to click your way back into it.
• Bulk deletion of pages has been improved.
• Fixed zooming and the lightbox in edit mode, closing hotspot tooltips, alignment of section headings, spacing between logo groups, and text sizes according to the Design settings.
• The edit history shows details in all panel languages and also reports AI connector logins.
• The "Getting started" guide matches the new tab layout.

Changes and removed features

• Colour import has been removed — colours are entered and edited directly in the swatch, or you simply import them through the MCP connector.
• The text (.txt) export of the colour swatch has been removed, since with MCP it had become an obsolete feature with minimal use.

Redesigned section template picker

• A new dialog for choosing a section
• Clicking the Preview button shows interactive HTML samples of the possible variants
• A simple overview of the options that saves time and makes the decision easier

E-mail notifications for new users

• A newly added user now receives an e-mail notification with sign-in instructions.
• A change of e-mail address is also sent to the user in question

Minor improvements

• Updated Getting started guide
• Fixed background rendering in the OG Image
• Performance improvements
• Fixed the text style for minimum logo sizes
• Fixed spacing in the image gallery

Copy guidelines from one logo to another in a single click

• Preparing the guidelines for a logo on colour and image backgrounds takes some time. For further logo variants derived from the main logo, however, you no longer have to click through those guidelines again. You simply choose which page to import the guidelines from and you're done.

Move a copy of a section without duplicating it

• If you have created a section with content that can be used entirely — or just partly — on another page, you can now move that section as a copy in one click. No duplicating, moving and rewriting the name afterwards. One click creates the same section wherever you need it.

New table options

• The Table section comes with a whole range of improvements. You can refine the table style and add buttons, collapsible content or additional text below it.

What's new

• A page group can now contain another page group

Fixes

• Minor bug fixes and improvements

What's new

• Page group – a reworked page type that replaces the former Overview. You can now create any number of further subpages inside a page group and keep the structure of your Visualbook very clear even with a large number of pages.

Improvements

• Lottie animations load faster
• Section descriptions handle #hashtags
• Image and text cards on content pages can now be displayed in a column or across the full page width

Fixes

• Image previews stopped being displayed after 30 days because of a faulty cache function. This is now fixed.
• Fixed the Figma token export in colour swatches
• Other minor fixes

Improved

• Safer file handling – The panel recognises more precisely which files are in use, reducing the risk of mistakes during bulk deletion.
• More accurate overview in the Panel – File counts and used storage refresh better after changes and show consistent values.
• A more up-to-date site after changes – Search, sitemap, robots.txt and dynamic styles refresh better after a page is moved, renamed or changed.
• Faster and more stable admin – Repeated cache refreshing has been unified, so everyday edits in the Panel put less load on the system.
• Faster search – Search goes through content more efficiently, so results load faster.
• Faster saving in the Panel – When a page is saved, related cache refreshes are merged better, so the admin responds more briskly.
• More efficient audit log – The change log is leaner and handles a larger volume of events without slowing the Panel down.
• Better bulk operations – Imports and migrations can defer demanding cache refreshes, so larger batch changes run more smoothly.
• Faster page loading – Optimised resource hints limit font preloads to a maximum of 6 and remove unnecessary preloads of body fallback fonts.
• Better LCP score – Main images in carousels and hero sections now carry the fetchpriority="high" attribute, so the browser prioritises downloading the LCP image.
• More efficient tracking – Analytics loads only on pages and sections where downloads are available, not globally.
• Improved llms.txt for agents – The file lists a deeper tree of public pages, includes a section about Markdown via Accept: text/markdown, skips helper page types, and the Link HTTP header pointing to llms.txt / robots.txt is sent outside the home page too. The Markdown response is based on the content in main and includes brief guidance with a link to llms.txt.

Added

• Show password while typing – Password fields on a protected page, the global site password and the modal for a protected link or file now have an icon to toggle between hidden and visible text.
• Link cards – text or images in one module – In the Link cards section you can switch between text cards and image cards in the right column. Text cards support page selection and custom links as before. Image cards have the same options as the Image cards section: aspect ratio, image, link to a page or URL. Text cards are the default and the choice is shared between languages.

Fixed

• Correct display of typefaces on the site – On some installations plain system fonts were shown instead of the brand typefaces. Fonts and other elements now load reliably for all visitors, including anonymous browsing.

Added

• Website identity verification for bots – The site can now prove its identity to automated systems (e.g. Cloudflare). It works much like a digital signature – the recipient can verify that a request really comes from your site.
• Catalogue of available services – A new machine-readable list of all public resources of the site (content for AI, sitemap and more). AI agents and tools can therefore discover automatically what your site offers.
• Better discoverability for AI agents – The home page now points directly to the machine-readable resources of the site in its HTTP response, so AI agents find them faster and more reliably.
• Content in Markdown for AI – When an AI agent requests a page in Markdown (instead of regular HTML), the site returns it in that format. Nothing changes for regular visitors in a browser.
• Rules for AI crawlers – The robots.txt file now contains a clear declaration: the site's content may be used for search and as a source for AI answers (so an AI agent can cite your brand guidelines correctly), but it may not be used to train AI models.

Fixed

• YouTube in the Video modules – The "Watch on YouTube" link on an embedded player no longer ends with a browser error (ERR_BLOCKED_BY_RESPONSE). The sandbox attribute, which prevented the YouTube video page from opening properly, has been removed from the iframe.

Improved work with logos

• Logo sizes on cards are generated dynamically according to their actual aspect ratio
• Manual fine-tuning is possible with the XS, S, M, L, XL buttons (to the right of the logo)
• The automatic clear space zone offers a preset selection of the most used values, with the option to set a custom one
• Editors see logo size changes live in the admin panel

Side navigation (even without a sidebar)

• To the left of every logo there is now the option to jump to the other logos within the same overview

Collapsible helper content below the logo

• A helper for users who aren't sure which logo format is right for them

Support for Lottie file animations

• You can add a Lottie animation to a card preview
• Or in the Video & Animation section
• Or also in the Video & Animation (multifunctional) section
• The .lottie files themselves can be uploaded as downloadable files in all sections that support file downloads

New export options, individual multibrand styles, llms.txt, change reports and more

AI export:

• Public and complete AI export (ZIP + Markdown for tools/LLMs); in multibrand mode you pick a sub-brand and see an overview of recent exports per brand.
• In onebrand mode the layout and behaviour match the static exports (a separate "Generate", below it a line with time/expiry and compact Download / Copy / Delete actions, including the same feedback when copying).
• Option to enable the generate button directly on the manual's homepage
• A public text file at /llms.txt (on multilingual sites also /cs/llms.txt etc.) – an overview of the public sections of the manual, links to the sitemap and search, and brief rules for tools and LLMs. Protected pages are not listed; the full content stays only in the panel export for authorised users.

Offline export

• Added a separate offline static export (ZIP) alongside the online export – its own block in the panel with the same workflow (generate, download, copy link, delete, expiry).
• Useful for a local backup, internal presentations and meetings, handing over to a colleague or an archive snapshot outside your hosting.

Change history

• A new edit history report in the admin – an overview of what changed in the manual, by whom and when (tied to the daily e-mail report).

Panel performance (files and pages)

• Faster Files and Pages tabs: cached categories, a persistent cache of the page overview and lazy loading of tabs (a lighter first load, with data fetched when you switch tabs).

Individual multibrand styles

• every brand in multibrand mode can now have completely unique styles – colours, typefaces, corner radii, backgrounds, etc.

New analytics, redirect settings and better static exports

Measuring visits to your brand manual:

• Overview of visited pages
• Total visits over time
• Visits by language version
• Device types over time
• Browsers used
• Operating systems used
• AI agents vs bots vs real users
• Traffic sources over time
• Overview of downloads and exports
• Overview of link clicks

Redirect settings

• Creating your own redirect paths
• Tracking redirected links
• Tracking failed attempts

Improved static exports

• Export for offline use – works right away when you click index.html
• Export for online use – works right away after uploading it to your server

Other improvements

• the favicon automatically generates favicon.ico
• updated admin panel Wizard
• other minor improvements and bug fixes

Sharing or managing files and links individually per language

• A selected field in the admin can be shared between language versions (CS ↔ EN) — files, URLs and general links.
• Right in the field header there is a "Linked / Not linked" button to toggle synchronisation in one click.
• When you turn synchronisation on, the field content is copied to the other language immediately.
• Synchronisation also works inside repeating sections (repeaters).
• Hovering over the button shows a tooltip describing the current state.

Improved organisation of card layouts in Visualbook:

• A clear listing of Large and Small cards including real previews
• Cards also include animations and logo slideshows
• Drag & drop reordering of cards, with the result visible on the site immediately

Improved performance and file organisation in Visualbook:

• Faster file loading
• Easy selection of unused files
• Bulk deletion
• Other changes and improvements

Improved access protection in Visualbook:

Visualbook lets you protect content on four levels. On each of them you can use:

• a password
• verification by company e-mail
• or both (the user chooses when signing in).

1. The entire Visualbook

In the project settings you can lock the whole site with a single password and/or allow access only to people with a company e-mail (e.g. everyone with a @yourcompany.com address). A visitor without permission cannot reach the content.

2. Selected pages

Every page can be locked separately – independently of the site-wide lock. This is handy when you want to keep most of the manual open but make some sections (e.g. internal processes) available only to selected people. You can also add your own help text that appears on the login screen.

3. Downloadable files

You can set protection separately for every file. The user clicks the download button, a modal window appears and only after entering the password or the verification code from their e-mail do they get the file. The real file address is encrypted – it cannot be found in the page source.

4. Links and buttons

Individual external links and buttons in any module (typefaces, galleries, accordion, cards, etc.) can be protected too. It works the same way as for files – a verification modal appears after clicking.

Important limitations

• Public e-mail domains are blocked – domains such as gmail.com, seznam.cz or outlook.com cannot be added to the allowed domains. E-mail protection is intended exclusively for company addresses.
• Static export – in the generated ZIP file only a password works. E-mail verification requires a server, so it is automatically disabled in a static export and protected files are converted to direct links.

What's new and improved

• Optional side navigation
• A logo can now also be defined for a single universal background
• The caption of a logo on a colour or image background can contain a link
• Better quality of uploaded images
• The crossing-out line now has 3 selectable weights
• The logo card generates a PDF from the uploaded SVG automatically
• Deleting a page with subpages no longer requires typing its full name

Fixes

• Fixed link generation in texts (non-breaking space)
• Fixed generation of the logo background colour in the panel

What's new and improved

• Improved search
• More reliable delivery of one-time codes
• Password setup for users who didn't have a password yet
• New Kirby 5.3 core with better performance
• Improved project indexing settings
• An SVG icon from the Icons section can be copied to the clipboard in one click
• You can set the stroke weight of an image or guideline crossing-out
• Improved OG Image rendering
• Updated Universal embed section (Miro, Loom and other services)
• The primary and secondary language can be changed at any time on request
• Security improvements
• Performance improvements
• Change reports by e-mail
• Replacing a file with a new one of the same name happens automatically
• Dynamic listing of the stylistic sets of uploaded typefaces

What's new

• Icons section
• synchronisation of the typeface name and the url slug (cs + en)

+ fixed lightbox display

What's new

• EPS files can now be added for direct download on the Logo page
• the logo background colour set in the admin panel is now written directly into the image
• descriptions in the left column now have underlined links for better clarity
• cards from the Overview can now be added to content pages as well
• the Gallery section can now add buttons: a link to an external URL, a link to an internal page or to a downloadable file
• the Large gallery page has these options too

+ minor bug fixes

What's new

Live editor (quick edits)!

• a logged-in user can now edit texts directly in the manual

Wizard

Wizards for individual sections are in the works.

A card with an external link can now be password protected, so in total you can password protect:

• The entire brand manual

• Any selected page

• Any selected file

• An external link in the form of a card on the main page

Large gallery now has the option to add downloadable files

The Image gallery section now has the option to add downloadable files

Visualbook now accepts .af files (Affinity)

The Colours card offers these swatch display templates:

• Swatches

• Squares

• Circles

• Circles (animated)

• Vertical stripes

• Horizontal stripes

Bug fixes:

• fixed synchronisation of a Multibrand Editor user's allowed sub-brands in both EN and CS

• minor bug fixes

What's new

• static export of the entire brand manual in one click! (available from version 5.3 under Settings > Other settings)

• bulk deletion in structured fields

• section descriptions can now contain an e-mail as a mailto link

• the help text for password-protected pages and files can now be edited individually

• new design of the HTML code section – users can edit a selected part of the code

• the Embedded content section now also displays PDFs from a link (including from Google)

Fixes:

• fixed glitches in the file overview

• a card in the overview pointing to a password-protected page now shows a padlock icon

• anchors on the Logos page now work correctly for logo groups

• fixed colour names in .ase exports

What's new:

You can now password protect not only a selected page, but also a selected file.

What's new

You can now import Embedded content into your brand manual:

• Canva

• Figma

• Google Slides

• Google Drive

• SlideShare

• file and storage optimisation

• minor fixes and improvements

Changes and improvements

• generated content now links to the URLs specified in both languages (CS and EN), for example:

  • ukazkova-obsahova-stranka-s-prehledem-sekci#sekce-obrazek-multifunkcni

  • sample-content-page-with-overview-of-sections#section-image-multifunctional

• Improved search

What's new:

• You can now display Latest updates on the homepage.

Bug fixes:

• Saving changes on the Typography page no longer throws "trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated".

• The trial days remaining counter no longer gets stuck.

• Downloadable files sections now show a warning when no file has been added.

• The Creative process section shows a placeholder image when the user hasn't added one.

• The Code section shows a warning when no code has been added.

• The Link cards section shows a warning when no card has been added.

• Improved display of images on main page cards

• Other minor fixes

What's new:

• The Google Drive section can now add buttons and collapsible content below the window with files from Google.

• The Typography section now lets you add a custom preview image of a typeface instead of representative characters

• The contact e-mail is now derived from what is set for the given brand, so a password-protected page shows the contact for that brand's manager rather than the main brand's.

• If your manual contains only one logo, you go straight to it from the homepage. There is no need to click through the Logos page, which would show only that single logo anyway.

• The scrollbar no longer affects page width, so the layout no longer jumps.

• The Code section now renders code in classic colours and also has a Copy button.

This version runs on the final Kirby 5.0.0 release.

Bug fixes:

• The Before and after (slider) section now correctly shows a warning when no image or only one image has been added.

Improvements:

• The file overview loads much faster.

• Improved formatting of the Font usage table.

• When no font weight in use is selected in the Typography section, this item is no longer displayed in Visualbook either.

• Files with an underscore in the name no longer cause other files to be deactivated.

Bug fixes:

• The Typography section no longer creates an error status when it contains no font (it was deleted)

• The Audio section now plays a larger number of files without looping

• Fixed colour imports in the Colours section

• Minor fixes to the Translation check

Improvements:

• The Overview now shows a notification when translations are missing on a page in a multilingual Visualbook

Final release, last changes and improvements:

• Redesigned Audio section

• Redesigned Chart section (visual axis)

• A brand new translation check for multilingual Visualbooks

• Improved handling of CTA element contrast when you upload a light shade of a colour

• The download icon for colour swatches now matches the other icons

• The carousel has new navigation buttons whose colours you can define yourself

• Multibrand mode can hide the descriptions on the main homepage cards and also set custom descriptions on the homepage

• You can place a description next to a logo

• Other minor improvements and bug fixes

You can now add an Info box – highlighted text to every section. You can choose Note, Tip or Warning.

Changes and fixes:

• The Before and after (slider) section no longer has to contain captions

• Elimination of external libraries so that the Visualbook project runs independently

• Moving pages and sections is now snappy — no more waiting for the destination picker dialog

• Other minor improvements

What's new:

• Option to apply the site background to subpages as well

• You see all options when creating a page (previously a dropdown)

Changes and fixes:

• Improved Typography section (character generation)

• Better UI design for the font weights in use

• Better UI design for the Contrast check section

• Fixed Colour palette section (only active colour modes are displayed)

• Other minor improvements and fixes

The Typography section got a major update!

• The section can generate information about a typeface (Designer, Foundry, Version, Total number of glyphs, OpenType features, Language support).

• The section renders the typeface's glyphs grouped into logical sets (Basic Latin, Cyrillic, Mathematical operators, etc.).

• The section includes a Font tester – you can test your own text and its size in the given typeface.

• Within the section you can add any buttons you like (link, link to another Visualbook page, downloadable file, e-mail).

Visualbook now formats texts automatically:

• Single-letter prepositions - non-breaking spaces after k, s, v, z, o, u, a, i

• Numbers and units - non-breaking spaces (e.g. 40 000 CZK)

• Dashes - hyphens replaced with typographically correct dashes (–)

• Ellipses - three dots replaced with a proper ellipsis (…)

• Redundant spaces - double spaces removed and indentation cleaned up

• Czech quotation marks - automatic conversion of "text" to „text" (Czech version only)

• Date protection - non-breaking spaces in dates (e.g. 15. 4. 2023)

• Abbreviation protection - non-breaking spaces after abbreviations (e.g., etc., etc.)

• Number ranges - typographically correct dash between numbers (10–15)

The Logo formats page has been improved:

• You can now define which formats are shown on the page

New Before and after slider section

New Creative process section

Changes and improvements

The Colours page:

• Completely new design of the colour swatches

• Three sizes (large, medium, small)

• Added support for three-colour gradients (previously only two colours)

• Improved copying of colour values with visual confirmation

• Added export formats for all types of colour modules

• Added the option to export colours to Adobe ASE

• Added support for Figma Design Tokens export

• Added export to CSS, SCSS and Tailwind configurations

• Added PDF export with complete colour information

• Added the option to export all formats at once in a ZIP archive

• Improved responsiveness of the modules on mobile devices

• Optimised navigation between colour formats (HEX, RGB, CMYK, Pantone)

• Added support for NCS colour codes

• Improved contrast of texts on colour areas

• Colour ratios have been improved

• The contrast check has been improved

• The colour modes table now also contains RAL and NCS information

Generated content is now rendered first on the page, so the layout no longer jumps.

The Video and Video (multifunctional) sections now have autoplay and loop options for each video.

Other minor performance and panel UI improvements.

Fixes:

• Changes are now saved reliably when saving a page — no need to press the button again or use the ctrl+s shortcut.

• Translations of some sections have been polished.

• improved synchronisation of multilingual content

• new icons (● ○) for active / inactive files

• the password landing page is now translated into the EN version as well

• improved handling of the OG Image – just click the preview in Settings and it updates

• improved file handling

• any page can now be password protected

• other minor admin panel improvements

Fixes and changes

• Fixed the site background image, which now displays according to the breakpoint you set (the Disable background at screen width option).

What has been put on hold:

• the plugin for removing single-letter words at the end of a line broke links inside texts. For now I have disabled this feature.

This update improves how you work with files and images in your Visualbook. Page cards now generate previews at exactly the right dimensions, which guarantees a nice-looking image even when it was uploaded at too high a resolution. You can select and delete several files at once.

What's new

• Bulk file selection!

• Uploading files is now simpler – Visualbook automatically sets image sizes and formats for page cards, the favicon and more. Thanks to that you can upload even large files; Visualbook efficiently resizes them to the ideal size, so these previews are always good quality and use minimal storage.

• File upload fields now detect formats, so a user cannot accidentally add an invalid format. You don't even have to think about whether you are adding the ideal format, because wherever it makes sense Visualbook converts images to a progressive format (webp).

• Webp image previews are displayed

• PDF previews are displayed

Fixes and changes

• Every page and section now has independent files. That means you upload your own set of files for each of them. Sometimes this means uploading some files more than once, but in exchange every section is independent and can be moved or deleted without affecting another section or page.

• Tabs now reset correctly after a language change.

• The radio button now displays correctly in dark mode.

• The right column now aligns (sticky) correctly.

• Fixed display of file icons.

• Saving pages should now work properly without having to confirm Save several times.

What's new:

New language combinations in your Visualbook. You can choose from four options. You set your choice in the initial configuration:

1. Czech only

2. English only

3. Czech (default) + English (secondary)

4. English (default) + Czech (secondary)

The admin system can be displayed in two languages and you can switch between them at any time:

• Czech

• English

This means Visualbook can now be used entirely in English, without any Czech at all!

You also no longer enter your own DeepL API key – for multilingual versions it is now included in your Visualbook automatically.

Fixes and changes:

• The Back to top button has been removed

• Search has been improved for multilingual manuals

• The Search icon can now be hidden in Settings

What still doesn't work:

• Tabs reset to the first position after a language change; this will be fixed during Q1

• Some elements, such as the radio button, still need polishing for dark mode; this will be fixed in Q1.

• The right column in the admin is sticky and doesn't align 100% correctly; this will be fixed in Q1.

• When saving a page the changes sometimes don't get written and you have to press the button again or use the ctrl+s shortcut; this will be fixed in Q1.

This version mainly fixes bugs:

• Previewing a Draft section before publishing it now works

• Fixed the Logo page, where there was a bug in the logo-on-image-background section

• Fixed the file status on the Logos page (used and unused logos are now displayed correctly)

What's new:

• Better file cache handling

• Improved site performance

• When duplicating a page in multilingual mode, the page title is synchronised consistently for both languages. This is useful in many cases – for example when you duplicate an entire multibrand A to multibrand B, so that the page title is B in both languages. Otherwise you would have multibrand B in the current language and multibrand A in the other one (the original title of the page you duplicated).

What doesn't work yet in version 5 Beta 3:

• Tabs reset to the first position after a language change; this will be fixed during Q1

• Some elements, such as the radio button, still need polishing for dark mode; this will be fixed in Q1.

• The right column in the admin is sticky and doesn't align 100% correctly; this will be fixed in Q1.

• When saving a page the changes sometimes don't get written and you have to press the button again or use the ctrl+s shortcut; this will be fixed in Q1.

What's new:

• Every file now has a ◆ or ◇ icon. The ◆ icon means the file is actively used somewhere in your Visualbook. Deleting it would leave something missing on a page – either as a cover image or as a downloadable file. The ◇ icon marks a file that is in your Visualbook but is not used anywhere. You can delete these files without any impact.

• The file overview now also includes statistics – file counts, size and storage usage.

• Content can now be synchronised between two languages even if you don't use the DeepL API. Automatic translation, however, is only available with a DeepL API key.

• You can now duplicate entire multibrand Visualbooks – a big time-saver for multibrand structures.

Fixes and changes:

• Pages and sections can now be moved (right-click the page and choose Move page).

• The page title (for example Brand manual) can now be translated into English as well.

• Dark mode has been completely reworked and improved for better accessibility.

• Fixed the Draft feature – these sections are no longer displayed until you change the status to Active. Previewing a Draft before publishing is, however, still not possible. It will be fixed in Q1.

What doesn't work yet in version 5 Beta 2:

• Tabs reset to the first position after a language change; this will be fixed during Q1

• Some elements, such as the radio button, still need polishing for dark mode; this will be fixed in Q1.

• The right column in the admin is sticky and doesn't align 100% correctly; this will be fixed in Q1.

• When saving a page the changes sometimes don't get written and you have to press the button again or use the ctrl+s shortcut; this will be fixed in Q1.

What's new:

1. The entire admin panel now supports English as well. You can switch to it in your account settings.

2. Editing multilingual content is now far simpler thanks to shared fields – it no longer matters whether you create content in EN or CS. Key items are automatically shared with the other language. You can import content and translate it with the built-in DeepL translator in both directions.

3. Colours can now be imported in bulk from a text listing of many colours at once.

4. The Design page has a new layout. Better arrangement of elements, and you can now also set heading sizes.

5. The admin panel now supports Dark mode.

6. New descriptions of page types, including sections.

7. New sections: Video (multifunctional), Archetype, Accordion (collapsible content).

8. Reworked Texts section – now more flexible and clearer.

9. The Logos page (logo overview) can now be password protected too.

10. The entire manual can now be password protected.

11. Visualbook now generates a Sitemap and Robots.txt automatically

12. Visualbook now also includes a clear tool where you set up redirects for any pages.

13. Visualbook 5 has no content limits – you can build an unlimited number of content pages.

14. You can now add logos and files without confirming the action – this speeds up your work.

Fixes and changes:

1. Better CS/EN language switcher in the admin panel. It is now always active, so you don't have to refresh the panel to see it.

2. Fixed anchors on the Logos page.

3. Fixed generated content on the Large gallery page.

4. Fixed language translations in some sections and made the displayed icons consistent.

5. The Visualbook header can now use an SVG logo. This logo now also appears in the OG image (in the older version only a PNG logo worked).

6. Fixed the design of the main homepage cards – overlaps in the rounded corners are gone.

7. Every preview card now has a note with the recommended image dimensions.

8. Fixed the edit history.

9. Fixed helper error messages for cases where no content has been added to a section.

10. Simplified the process of adding info pages.

11. Fixed the Colour ratios section, where content was not displayed correctly with two sections below each other.

12. Fixed the site background on mobile when the background image is turned off.

13. Fixed page indexing (optional in Settings).

14. Fixed the image lightbox.

15. Large files can now be uploaded as well.

What has been discontinued:

1. Support for the SK language has been removed, because with the new shared fields it would significantly increase the complexity of the whole system, along with the maintenance burden and the risk of bugs.

2. The Photo bank has been removed; it wasn't being used and it depended on an external API.

What doesn't work yet in version 5 Beta?

1. Moving pages and sections isn't possible yet. I expect it to be fixed during Q1 2025.

2. The page title (for example Brand manual) isn't translated into English. I expect it to be fixed during Q1 2025.

Structured fields are now translated automatically via DeepL as well.

What's new:

• New image overview page

• Option to split the overview into sections

• Option to add descriptions to logo group sections

What's new

• Option to add a background to the homepage!

• Option to add your own images to the main homepage cards

What's new:

• Logo previews on colour and image backgrounds can now show whether the logo used is intended for a light or a dark background.

• When logos are displayed in groups (on the Logos page), you can add a description below the group name

Fixes:

• the footer padding is now larger so there is enough space between the content and the footer

What's new

• You can now set brand colours on the Design page, and they carry over into the colour picker across the whole Visualbook.

• A new type of overview page has been created – the Image overview.

• The Starterkit now has a notification bar informing users that this is a working version of Visualbook.

Preview of the image overview:

What's new:

• new section: HTML code

Fixes

• changes to the Image and buttons section: added borders and a white background

• changes to the Image and text section: added borders and a white background

Improvements:

• the Enterprise plan now lets you credit the designer / studio in the manual's footer with a link to their website

Bug fixes:

• The Image and buttons section in slider mode (just select several images and it activates automatically) is now independent and you can duplicate it. In the previous version the controls of two or more sliders interfered with each other.

• Translations of the Visualbook name were not translated into the other languages; this is now fixed as well.

• On the Logos page, in the Logo on colour background section, the term "Background colour" is now translated into the other languages.

• On the Typography page a warning is now shown when the font file for a section has been deleted (instead of an error page).

What's new:

• on the Typography page you can now add other module types as well and thus create more complex guidelines

• on the Typography and Colours pages you can now generate a clickable table of contents automatically

• the Image with buttons module now lets you add several images and turn the preview into a slideshow

Fixes:

• the word Home in the navigation is now translated into the other languages

What's new:

• You can now upload various documents to storage (xlt, xltm, xltx, xls, pot, potm, potx, dot, dotm, dotx, doc, docx, ppt, pptx) as well as Affinity files.

Improvements:

Improvements:

• Every Visualbook can now be extended to up to 7 languages

• The Enterprise plan includes all of these languages natively

• Supported languages: CS, SK, PL, EN, FR, ES, DE

• Texts in the manual can be translated in one click using the DeepL integration

• DeepL now also translates page titles

Fixes:

• Fixed translations of the Font usage table into the other languages

Minor improvements

• Badge elements always use the default Visualbook font for better legibility and consistency

• In the Image section you can now choose for each image whether clicking it opens an enlarged preview (lightbox) or not.

• New design of the login e-mail. Visualbook has a passwordless login system where you just enter your e-mail and a code arrives in your inbox. You use that code to sign in to the admin.

• The e-mail sending system has also been changed: I dropped Google SMTP for sending and replaced it with the hosting's native mail() function.

Note: you can also use password login, which you set up in the admin Panel.

Improved typography options:

• Visualbook headings can now use stylistic sets ss01–09 and all-caps display

• Visualbook body texts can now use stylistic sets ss01–09 and tabular figures

• The text in the sample-character slideshow on the Visualbook homepage can now use stylistic sets ss01–09 and tabular figures

• Previews of individual typeface sections on the Typography page can use stylistic sets ss01–09 and tabular figures. This setting also carries over to the preview glyphs (characters) of the given typeface.

A completely new and reworked version of Visualbook has been released!

What's new:

• New open-source admin system by Kirby

• New open-source icons by Remix

• Integration of the Pexels photo bank

• Reworked design of some components

• New sample brand manual Demo

• New page type: Overview

• New page type: Download centre

• New page type: Content page

• A modified Large gallery page that lets you create image groups and define image aspect ratios and preview sizes on the page

• Passwordless user login

• LinkLock replaced by a built-in system of password-protected pages

• Simplified Google Drive integration

• 12 redesigned sections for content pages

• Option to add sections to the Logo and Colours pages as well

• New "Usage guidelines" dropdown menu on the Typography page

• Option to hide almost all default sections of the preset pages

• User management in the Panel (admin environment)

• System usage statistics

• The Designer tool integrated directly in the Panel

• Extended layout options for the Logos page – display all logo cards in two possible sizes, or organise them into groups with custom names for each group (for example Main logos, Product logos)

• Automatic OG Image generation, with the option to enable captions in the OG Image

• Native support for CZ, SK and EN and a DeepL integration for translating text fields into the selected languages

• Various other improvements

Older versions:

• Automatic migration from the older version 3 to version 4 isn't possible, but you can contact me and we'll arrange the migration individually.