At our July customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management, highlighted insider tips and techniques to help make your BLOX CMS site faster than ever.

Highlights include:

• Understanding the need for speed and how TownNews.com's Flex Templates can help reduce load times.

• Evaluating ads, third-party add-ons and other factors that can slow down your site.

• Creating page size & load time budgets to help you stay on track when designing pages and adding new content.

• Future upgrades to rendering, CSS and much more!

For more information, download the slideshow or watch the recorded webinar today!

Recently, someone in our group mentioned they had gotten a list of sites on the four FLEX templates for easy comparison.

Wondering if anyone has that list to share? Thanks!

We're trying to figure out the best (and free) way to implement a message board feature on our prep sports website. Anyone using one? Any suggestions? Thanks!

Every time I have a question for this community I want to make sure someone else hasn't asked it before. I even did it for this question. /meta This may be beyond TownNews' ability to customize as I'm not sure about how UserEcho works. But when I search for something like "section tag" I know there have to be more than 10 results and I don't want to take away votes from another established topic by creating a new topic that could be exactly the same as a previous one.

So is this something that can be done?

I had another question/topic but I'll ask it another day. I decided today was the day I'd finally ask about more search results.

Our advertisers would like to target Countries or States or even Cities for their banner ads. Some examples would be to target Canadians (Winter Visitors) at certain times of year, Military communities as they look to relocate, or Mexico site users on the weekends. In some cases, the advertiser can only sell to people in our state or are trying to target visitors from a neighboring state.

Our request is to be able to target Countries, States or even Cities for banner ads.

At our July customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management, will highlight insider tips and techniques to help make your BLOX CMS site faster than ever.

We'll cover:

• Understanding the need for speed and how TownNews.com's Flex Templates can help reduce load times.
• Evaluating ads, third-party add-ons and other factors that can slow down your site.
• Creating page size & load time budgets to help you stay on track when designing pages and adding new content.
• Future upgrades to rendering, CSS and much more!

Join us on Thursday, July 7th at 10:30 AM CDT.

At our June webinar, Rich Griffin (BLOX Live e-Editions product manager) and Jon Winters (BLOX Total CMS product architect) discussed the latest updates and new revenue opportunities.

Highlights include:

• Generating revenue with ne banner ad positions for BLOX Live e-Editions.

• Increasing user engagement with cutout asset upgrades.

• Creating a better reader experience with simplified jump segmentation.

• Saving time with improved asset merging and page replication in BLOX Total CMS.

• And much, much more!

For more information, watch the recorded webinar today!

Is there a way to have mapping as an option on the flex block : Business card : Business (Flex).

The block for Calendar: Card Event has a mapping option. It would be nice to have mapping as an option for the business blocks as well.

Thanks,

Sarah

How come when you type replies in articles comment section paragraphs are not allowed?

Thanks.

Additionally this could be expanded to allow site designers to develop blocks that would dynamically deliver the most relevant content based on a users location i.e. weather, news, offers, etc.

At our June customer webinar, Rich Griffin (BLOX Live e-Editions product manager) and Jon Winters (BLOX Total CMS product architect) will discuss the latest updates and new revenue opportunities.

We'll cover:
- Generating revenue with new banner ad positions for BLOX Live e-Editions.
- Increasing user engagement with cutout asset upgrades.
- Saving time with improved asset merging and simplified page replication in BLOX Total CMS
- And much, much more!

Join us on Thursday, June 2nd at 10:30 AM CDT.

Polls are awesome. They'd be more awesome if I could add images as child assets and have those images show up as a photo gallery. (If you add photos to a poll asset now, they show up as cards under the poll.) This of the "who wore it best" polls you could do! The contest-type polls! Anyone else interested?

The mugshot presentation style is great for desktop users, but awful for mobile users, and we have more mobile users than desktop.

Here's what I mean by awful: Say you have a story with two photos and two mugshots (using the mugshot presentation style on those two photo assets).

Desktop view: Headline, two photos at the top of the story in a gallery format, two mugshots in the left rail and the story in the larger portion of the page.

Mobile view: Headline, mugshot, mugshot (they're stacked), photos in a gallery format, then the story. You're in real trouble if you have a story with more than a couple of mugshots.

I want to change this — and I think it should be a global change. Ideally, on mobile the mugshots would be part of the photo gallery — the order in which they're added as child assets would be the order they appear in the mobile photo gallery.

Anyone else in favor?

At our May customer webinar, Christine Masters, director of product management, discussed a variety of ways to refresh and renew your website.

Highlights include:

• Keeping your site up-to-date by cleaning out old blocks, auditing your admins and evaluating your ads.
• Freshening up your front page with new display blocks.
• Making sure your site is mobile-ready and search optimized.
• And much, much more!

For more information, watch the recorded webinar today!