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Broadsheet: Create Stylish Immersive Pages

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Is the app completely broken on Firefox? I choose "Blank page" template and I just get gray area which I cant interact with.

same here (latest ff beta). all the 'try before you buy' templates result in a non-interactive grey surface. no errors on the console.

Good work on this! Cool app and very easy to use, can definitely see it spreading. I think it would be awesome if you added video support since your landing page has a video and it's very popular to use background video these days. Also, dog-fooding and making building your own landing page in broadsheet seems doable and cool.

Thanks! We actually did build the current landing page _in_ Broadsheet. The background video is just an animated GIF!

Addding background video support for other formats is on the road map!

Played around with this a bit and think there are some really cool bits and generally a cool idea. Out of curiosity who is this specifically targeted to / who do you think this product will greatly improve the lives of?

Thanks! We made it for people who want to make pages that aren't easily made in common CMS tools and page builders. It's for posting quick, focused content experiences that can be easily consumed without distraction.

For a more technical read about how it works, check this out: http://xoxco.broadsheet.io/how_broadsheet_Works

It seems like you are a short jump away from making it a WYSIWYG editing experience. Any reason you went the sort of hybrid markdown approach instead and/or any plans in the future to have direct WYSIWYG editing?

WYSIWYG editors hide too much of the important information from the user. We want designers and developers to be able to see the real code and content so they aren't dealing with mysterious hidden complexity.

Hi - looks like a great workflow. I tweeted you guys on this, but I thought I'd add it here: would be really neat to see the ability to integrate externally via webhooks. (if this makes sense to do at all)

We've been working in the same space as you for a while with http://populr.me. Great to see others banging the drum of one-off content!

Hi. We're trying to test a widget embed in your site, but it seems the iframe is possibly being embedded in another iframe, when in the site editor mode. Which is strange, because when the page is published, it actually displays the widget: http://testandu.broadsheet.io/544a10fa5065790200338377

On our platform we're testing the referrer to make sure there's no unauthorised embeds, we cannot access it hence we cannot preview widget in the site editor mode.

Is there a way you can send the referrer to the iframe in edit mode?

We'd love to help figure this out. Can you email info@xoxco.com?

It's fine, we've done a change so that it works. ;)

Giant video headers are a terrible trend, its akin to flash intros but at least then it wouldn't cause your eye to constantly drift to the background making it hard to navigate and use the page.

"Launch Beta" is taking very long, HN effect?

Still, don't hide the CTA in a small button at top. It needs to be at least visible at the bottom.

Great product idea! Is the aim to focus on individual pages, or will there be a seamless way to integrate your Broadsheets?

hard to tell what Broadsheet is and why anybody should sign up . Perhaps, a couple sentence summary might help?

Cool, but: I dont want to be the product. Give me a price or FOSS it - otherwise GTFO.

Everything you create in Broadsheet is yours! There's an export option that will create a .ZIP file containing the raw HTML, CSS and images without any link back to Broadsheet itself.

thanks for the tip!

Yeah, it's not exactly clear what it does.

The main page has a lot more information than the link (just do http://broadsheet.io) - it appears to be a DTP-type service for authoring web pages.

This really should have been the submitted link. The submitted link is almost completely useless for anyone who doesn't already know what Broadsheet is. The real homepage is beautiful and does a pretty good job explaining what it is.

Ok, we changed the url to that from http://app.broadsheet.io/#/home.

It is kinda embarrassing for a digital publishing tool for web to have broken justification on their front page so prominently. Both IE11 and Fx35a2 just break words at random places without hyphens, and Chrome 38 won't even try and right aligns the paragraphs.

Thanks for pointing that out. This has been fixed. You are making a positive impact! :)

Yes, this makes a lot more sense.

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