Thanks Liam. I wish BC wouldn't have included section such as Blog Title and Blog Description with really bad or non-existing documentation. Thanks for clarifying how to add this function. TIP for CB. Add a little description or 'help' button next to items/ functions that need extra development so people don't need to waste time searching your endless KB or ask the forum for help. Thanks Mic ... View more

Like Fubals said "Some of it is, Some of it isn't.". I think most of it isn't. And I agree with JohnSSith. from a business point of view and ROI other platforms simply make more sense even if they compromise on some minor features. For small to medium size business who need to setup a marketing or even an e-commerce website there are simply far better options out there in terms of ROI. As a designer I prefer working on a platform with a great starting point (template) and integrate with third part tools such as MailChimp and Eventbrite for instance rather than hire a developer to hack BC's event modules and CRM to do what other tools provide for free or small fee. Most clients simply want to mimic what they see (trendy) and what they see is mostly smart, delightful user experiences that come from third party tools which BC simply does not offer or at least it's far too much work to mimic. This is not a debate. I think we all have legitimate comments. it's only that BC tagline as a tool for web designer is not the really the case anymore. ... View more

I didn't say BC is not responsive. It just has a very limited amount of responsive templates to choose from. ... View more

Thanks Liam. I head teams of web developers, graphic designers and product designers (UX). When we where about to develop our corporate website I contacted BC to ask if they support minimal corporate needs such as multi-languages, backups, dev/testing environments, publishing rights and robust CRM with more than 10K email marketing a month and also the ability to use Web Apps in the marketing package as we didn't need e-commerce. No! they couldn't support anything we asked. We ended up like a million other businesses using WordPress. Yes, WP is brittle but the ROI was far greater than using BC. And I REALLY wanted to use BC! Now I am facing the same dilemma but for a small local website. Nothing fancy but the client wants things that BC cannot offer out of the box such as beautiful responsive layouts such as Squarespace and Wix. BC's template offerings are a shame especially from a company raising the design banner and advocates for art and creativity. Every product is a compromise. It just seems like BC compromises a lot and simply lost it's direction. ... View more

Thank Liam That's why I am trying to figure out who is BC for. on BC website it says: "Business Catalyst (BC) is an all-in-one business website and online marketing solution, built for web designers. Using our unified platform and without back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores, beautiful brochure-ware sites to lead generation mini-sites." Sorry, but BC is no longer built for web designers. The learning path and development needed to create up to date, trendy and delightful websites require .net and JS developers. ... View more

Thanks Liam Hopefully Adobe's blog team will remove or correct that blog. Cheers Micha ... View more

Thanks Liam for clearing this. Some of your points contradict with BC blog: New Google's mobile-friendly rules and Business Catalyst In the blog Diana (or Olga) state that the desktop version will also be affected. What worries me is that BC's mobile version generator (templates) is not supported by these new rules which means all sites must be 'responsive' which is ridicules. I actually tested a couple of my BC sites in Google's Mobile Friendly Test page and the result was "Awesome! This page is mobile-friendly." So I am confused. Do I need to convert my websites that use BC's mobile templates to be responsive or not? Thanks Micha ... View more

Thanks Liam, not sure how to do that but I will try. Thanks ... View more

Thanks Liam, Got it! I did something like this. <div class="product-image"> <a href="{tag_itemurl_withhost} " title="{tag_name_nolink} ">{tag_smallimage_nolink} </a> </div> ... View more

Thanks Liam, Makes sense but this is a catalogue set by BC module so I don't have an option to insert alt or title attributes. seems like a bad design or may be there is something I can do. Cheers ... View more

Thanks Liam If you look at the source code the alt info is there it just doesn't show on hover. A bit bad in terms of accesability. ... View more