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Monday, June 12, 2006
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Journals R6 Release Is "Go" for Launch, 6/13, 4am ET

Hi folks -- hope you had a good weekend. Here's the current status of the Journals R6 Release, which I mentioned last week: We are a GO for launch, so R6 will be installed tomorrow morning, Tuesday, June 13, from 4AM-6AM ET.

Journals will be unavailable during this time.

Here is status on specific items:
  • We're in Beta: The Journals tech team pushed the R6 changes to beta early this morning. As is normal with this kind of thing, there were some glitches, but the Journals team got it up and out there.

    To see the beta, just add "beta." to the beginning of the Journal's address; for example, my live blog's address is: http://journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/

    The beta version of my Journal is located at: http://beta.journals.aol.com/journalseditor/magicsmoke/

    Note that changes to your beta Journal will be reflected in your real, live Journal (for example, I'm posting this entry via the beta, so you can see... well, keep reading), so be careful or create a test Journal to play around with.

    Some of the features you'll see in beta include the new Journals header (with the Journals Search entry field), the tagging beta test for Microsoft Internet Explorer, and the ability to embed tables in entries, like this one:

    New FeatureWhat It Does
    TablesLets you use tables in entries. Like this one.


  • Ad Banners for International Journals: The business teams for Germany, France and the UK have decided to not add ad banners to the top of International Journals. However, as of this writing, Mexico and Canada will be getting the ad banners in R6 (although this is still being looked at).
We'll keep you updated as we get more info.

Thanks -- Joe

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  • #14 Comment from njmom72 
    6/13/06 11:14 AM Permalink
    Gabbly has been added to the list of accepted Iframes, but I just tried to use an Iframe code from Gabbly in my test blog and it didn't show up.
  • #13 Comment from pharmolo 
    6/13/06 11:00 AM Permalink
    Joe,

    SOS again: can only access UK journals through the AOL server. What's happening???
  • #12 Comment from njmom72 
    6/13/06 10:21 AM Permalink
    Joe, part of my journal's description is appearing above the ads. I've emailed you about it with an image of how my journal looks...it seems to be a coding error of some sort.
  • #11 Comment from my78novata 
    6/13/06 8:41 AM Permalink
    I like the new search bar. It pulled up every article in my journal that had that word in it. Now I can find an entry when I need to look back for something.
  • #10 Comment from pharmolo 
    6/13/06 8:16 AM Permalink
    Joe,

    *** SOS ***

    The YGP images don't show on the UK blogs. I've checked on my own and several others, and anything uploaded on YGP returns an error message. Please help!

    http://journals.aol.co.uk/pharmolo/NorthernTrip
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