Zen has fairly decent in-line photo options. If I dragged a photo into the body of an article it would stay right where I put it as long as the presentation was "None." That was great because if the photo was for a specific section of the article it ensured that was where it displayed. The new "Long-form" and "Personality" presentations have abandoned that. FLEX has abandoned that altogether. So even in "None" it puts the images wherever it wants to in the body.

For example...

Here you have the Zen photo display. A lot of white space but at least I KNOW the photo will go with the content.

On the other hand...

This is FLEX. Is that photo of a scarf headband, a fake knot or a hidden knot? I can't tell.

So could we please have more options for displaying in-line photos? I want to switch our magazine to FLEX because the templates are far superior to Zen. But I I feel like we're taking a step backward when I can't display in-line photos that stay with their corresponding body copy. I'd love to be able to display in-line photos as full width photos so there isn't that white space seen in the top screenshot. But I prefer the white space over the random image placement.

Hi y'all, we're on board with TownNews' preferred Google Analytics setup now (woo hoo!) ... Now that's done, we'd like to setup a way to track analytics for Facebook Instant articles and Google AMP pages. Because the URLs generated for those pages aren't always on a site's domain, how do you accomplish this in GA?

We would like to have all of our site Marketplace directories to link to Google Map directions. Right now when you click on a Business pin on the Google Map embed, it only displays the address. We would like to request that the address link to Google Maps directions.

Post and Courier example:
http://www.postandcourier.com/marketplace/?action=srch&limit=10&sort=geodist&keyword=pets

Cherry already posted a reminder about this webinar! Thanks Cherry!

I had a few questions for you community folks...

1. Do you have any specific questions regarding these tools that you'd like me to cover?

Right now I will give an overview of how they work, and then some best practices to create nice looking content.

We will also have Elizabeth Stephens (famous member who frequents this board, in fact) give some sage advice from a journalism / newsroom perspective.

Then I'll show a few examples of what you can do.

2. Speaking of which... if anyone has examples of great uses of the Article Designer tools, or even your favorite parts of what you've seen so far - let me know. I'd love to highlight some customer work in this webinar!

I'm setting up a form that will have multiple items available for purchase. BLOX forms don't come with a subtotal page before submitting. You fill out the form and submit it all on the same page. Typically e-commerce is handled by filling out a form and going to another page that shows the subtotal before submitting. Can that be done in BLOX?

I enjoy the Live E-Editions, but when it comes to magazines, I am often given a single PDF that I then have to extract before uploading it to BLOX.  

Like the title says, I'm looking for examples of good design.

We've brought our entertainment and niche magazine publications off Wordpress and into Blox, and I hate, hate, hate the designs.

Does anyone out there have an example of well designed mag/niche/weekly publication sites or sections that are using Flex?

I'm beating my head up against the wall trying to find something that doesn't look like just another section of the newspaper site.

Thanks!

I am trying to set-up a newsletter that I can send out to all of our subscribers. How do I do this? Do I need to purchase some additional service? Is it even possible to do this through TownNews?

Thank you for your help!

Watch it now! At our June webinar, we showed you how the newly updated Article Designer for BLOX CMS can help you unleash your creativity and boost reader engagement.

New features include:

• Dazzle readers with fresh photo options: parallax, full-width, panorama and more.

• Set the alignment and width of inline story elements for elegant, magazine-like layouts.

• Drag-and-drop related content like pull quotes and fact boxes into the body of your stories.

• Tailor the look of inline story elements with a simple right-click.
  

The new ability to embed a collection with the mosaic presentation is great, except users can't just expand a picture without going to a separate URL. If the photos simply expanded when clicked, just like the images do at the top of stories, readers wouldn't have to load a new URL or leave their spot in a story.

It's a jolt in the experience when the page moves to a new URL. It forces users to hit "Back" to finish reading the story, and is disruptive as-is. Mimicking the features the photos display at the top of the page would fix this.

So, of course I have a feature request already re: thew new BLOX release, lol.

We love dragging related stories into body text. But we actually prefer an article asset's 'summary' presentation rather than the 'default' presentation for sibling assets. 

Feature request: Ability to designate which presentation you want to be your default.

Is there any plans on implementing a REST API to return assets as JSON?

It would be really useful for integration with our home-grown systems (Mobile apps, internal APIs, etc) to be able to get a list of all the assets in a section as JSON, then query as asset for all it's data, child assets, etc in a JSON format.

The only way I can see to get data out of the BLOX CMS is via the RSS/ATOM feeds functionality, which is lacking much of the assets data and is no where near as easy to work with as JSON.

Is there a way to bring over assets from syndication with importer as "Do Not Publish"?

I have a customer account that keeps getting disabled (at least once per week). And once I unlock it, he says that he still cannot login. I'm hoping that someone might have a solution