In our continuous effort to improve the platform one of our most valuable tools is feedback and ideas from you, our users. Over the years the majority of our best improvements have come directly from thePort's most creative and experienced collective brain - our customers.

As an example, several months ago we introduced the ability for administrators to create entirely new pages built around a library of draggable 'widgets' - removing the need for a skilled developer to hand-code new pages. After introducing our first drag and drop interface, we got a lot of positive feedback and suggestions for improving the tool to make it easier and more powerful.

This morning we pushed a hotfix that incorporates several improvements to the drag and drop functionality, most of which came from your feedback. One of the most difficult parts of the drag and drop concept is the need to satisfy two competing masters - the need to improve its power and flexibility while also keeping it simple and easy to use.

After listening it became clear to us that we needed to better communicate how it all worked so we've added a help feature to the drag and drop pages that provides some instructions. Admins see a more detailed version of these instructions than users do. Feel free to make suggestions about additions or clarifications to these instructions.

In addition we've provided more flexibility to the widgets themselves. Now the title bar on widgets can be hidden or shown to your end user, independent of if the widget is locked or not (previously, locked widgets never showed a title bar). The visibility of the title bar is indicated to you, the administrator, by a new icon in the upper left corner of the widget. You can also still customize the title's text and background color.

For consistency the widget titles themselves now automatically adopt the style of the rest of the titles on your site (previously they had their own style - now they use class=ContentTitle).

Also, the shape of the cursor will change when moving over an unlocked widget's title to indicate that the widget is draggable.

Being an interim release these are just a few of the ideas we got from you. Many of your ideas will come as improvements in future releases, but today's hotfix is an example of how important your feedback is to what we do here.

If you have ideas for product enhancements (or updates to existing features) check out our Feature Requests blog. You can vote on items you'd like to see or add your own.