We released new and updated design templates this week. They may look very similar to others, but there’s some goodies under the covers.

For example, this new 3 panel design template offers a 16:9 image area, extended weather forecast on the left, RSS on the bottom, and logo on the bottom right.

Take a look at the new options available in the Advanced section:

• Image Duration.  The image is the focus of this design template and this advanced setting allows you to set the playback duration for the image.  For example, setting the image duration to 60 seconds will display the image for the full 60 seconds while the weather and RSS content update throughout the 60 second duration.
• Weather Item Duration.  This design template provides the extended weather forecast.  This is a seven day forecast with high and low temps for each day.  This advanced setting controls the duration of each day in the forecast.
• RSS Item Duration.  This design template will play up to 15 RSS items.  This advanced setting controls the duration of each RSS item.

Search Terms

To find this and other design templates with configurable duration, go to “Create Content” and search for “dynamic duration“:

To find design templates that provide more flexible text sizing search for “dynamic text”:

The End Result

In the design template on the left below, note the size of the word “SALE” in the top left price tag. After entering longer text in this price tag, the size of the text automatically adjusts to fit within the price tag:

Also, in the design template on the left below, note the size of the bottom right price tag with the “$139” price. After entering longer text in this price tag, the size of the text stays the same and the width of the price tag automatically adjusts to fit the text:

Stayed tuned for many more dynamic design templates.

Enjoy!!

To add to our growing selection of 3 panel templates, we added our first YouTube 3 panel design template this week. This design template offers a 16:9 YouTube video area, detailed forecast weather on the left, RSS on the bottom, and logo on the bottom right.

A brand new feature is also introduced with this design template:

• Logo Toggle.  You can now toggle the logo panel visibility. Logos are common in design templates so the ability to toggle makes the design template more flexible and your content easier to maintain.

To use this new feature, go to the Advanced section when Customizing your design.

Another new design template released this week is an improved full screen RSS, background image, and logo on the bottom right. The logo toggle feature is also available in this new design template.

There are three brand new features introduced with this template:

• Dynamic Items. You can control how many RSS items to play (i.e. 1 – 20 items).
• Dynamic Duration. You can set the duration for each RSS items (i.e. 10 – 60 seconds).
• Color Choice. You can choose the font color from a color picker.

These three new features significantly improve flexibility and customization of RSS content to better meet customer needs.

To use these new features, go to the Advanced section when Customizing your design.

Yet another new design template released this week is a full screen text, background image, and logo on the bottom right. The logo toggle, dynamic duration and color choice features are also available in this new design template.

Enjoy!