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3. you can attach a shipping charge to a product but there's no support for multiple shipping methods... So if I add an amount to shipping in the product setup then it always charges it. What if the customer wants to pickup the item. 
2. how about a total field so you dont have to put an explanation on every form (your total will be calculated and displayed on the next page. you will have the opportunity to review you order before your credit card is charged.)
1. in the list of items you can drag and drop on the page why not add a "Text" Block and or an "HTML" Block so you can add text or images to the form where and how you want 
We've just added several blocks across the site that will present web only content.... A small text description below the header "This block features content that did not run in the paper. It is presented as a service to our web users" 

Or on the e-edition block, "Click the image below to access today's e-edition. Click the title above to access e-editions for the last 30 day"

I could accomplish something similar by pinning an asset and having the text I want either as the asset headline or in some cases as the preview text, but I don't necessarily want the description that big or to be a link, 

I could also customize the block but it seems like it would make more sense if this were a consistent option for all block templates,

I've had what I think is a related issue... I want to add some urls, delete a couple, and redesign a couple of pages.... But I didn't want the changes live until they were all done.

What I did was duplicate our url map and began working on my updates. What I noticed is while the page layouts get copied the site navigation doesn't so if I have to recreate the existing navigation and then begin working on my updates. Adding extra work. Navigation needs to get copied when the url map is. 

Also if I make updates to a page on my live site there doesn't seem to be any way to get those updates to the new url map without manually redoing them. There needs to be a way to either merge url maps or better yet be able to copy individual pages or branches from one url map to another. 

So in my example I could have duplicated the "Live" map and it would have duplicated the navigation as well, giving me a base site from which to make my changes. I could then add the tribute product (with it's new urls) to the new url map and it would not affect the "Live" map, I could then modify the features section in the new map. If I had made some changes to the "Live" sports page then I could copy that page from the "Live" map to "New" map without having to redo my work. When I was ready for the new pages to be live it should simply be a matter of making the new url map live. (I noticed the service rules have to be updated to work with the new map)

Allowing for multiple url maps is almost like making a second "development" site available. With some tweaking it would be a lot more useful.

Christine, my bad. I went back and checked and it was an html asset that was displaying an embedded video. I got confused because the site I'm embedding changed the back end to youtube... (serving it off their platform while they can get good ad revenue and then moving it to youtube once they can't)

I added the video as a youtube asset and set position and it displays fine.

Thanks
Christine, the only other thing I should add touch 5 is showing this just like a standard collection and when view as in desktop mode the android browser kinda screws up formatting. 
I tried this and it did not work for me... Of course it may be some customization biting us in the @#$.
I assume i would need our article template updated.
images did not display "in the timeline" the way html assets did and the way i wish they would.
The list at the bottom has been growing on me (kinda like a fungus). Yes if all the assets would show up as part of the timeline (like the html ones do now and as in the mockup) that would be fine and the article list at the bottom really isn't necessary (unless its there for compatibility reasons)

As far as the thumbnails showing up in the graphic timeline - not sure, they would have to be very small and there are already issues with overlapping assets.