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• Enhanced security — Spammers, bots, crawlers are matched against blacklists and challenged.
• Faster load times for international visitors — When a visitor in France visits <http://www.cinemaminima.com>, Web pages will be served from an “edge server” in Europe, instead of from America, so the time to load pages in the browser would be considerably faster. The same thing woudl apply to visitors in other parts of the world — the browser of a visitor in Asia would fetch pages from a server in Asia, etc.

Now, all Correspondents’ names and pictures (or avatars) are displayed in the leftmost column.

And — something that has been wanted for a long time — Correspondents’ names and pictures are automatically displayed with their stories.

Rather than waiting for a re-design of the existing Home page — a ready-made page template has been used. This readymade design is “busy,” visually speaking, and neither as elegant — minimal — nor as stylish as Cinema Minima readers have a right to expect. However, it has the great advantage of making available the benefits of the improved CMS. Functionality trumps cosmetics every time.

Many other new benefits are available for both Correspondents and Cinema Minima readers. More about those, in future posts.

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