New features - May 16th, 2006
It’s that time of the week again. 
- All of the elements on your homepage are now organizable. Move things up/down to your hearts content as well as hiding them on your control panel.
- Your personal Google Maps section on your homepage will now auto-zoom to the best zoom level to encompass all your photos.
- The drag-and-drop uploader is out of beta! It’s now the recommended and preferred uploading method to SmugMug.
- Fixed a bug in the drag-and-drop uploader where you might get partial gray JPEGs if your connection dropped mid-way through upload. It’s now detected and discarded.
- Added the Upload Log! You can now see what photos you’ve uploaded, whether there were any errors, how long they sat in the process queue, and then how long they took to process. This replaces our “send me email when my photos are uploaded” feature and should be much more useful.
- Made the uploader pages look much nicer. It now blends with the design we’re graduallly rolling out to the entire site.
- Added links to our Mac OS X uploader and Omar Shahine’s SendToSmugMug Windows uploader.
- Minimized the links to the old broken uploaders we hate so much. They’ll probably go away for good once we see how the drag & drop uploader works for everyone.
- We now support custom pixel render targets. This is a relatively advanced feature, and is not nearly as fast as our standard JPEG file serving, but can come in especially handy for geeks. Simply replace the SmugMug size (”-M”) in a SmugMug JPG URL with a desired width x height pixel dimentions (”-640×480″) and we’ll render to that size. We won’t distort your image, so we’ll maintain aspect ratio, meaning you won’t get exactly what you ask for unless you specify the right aspect ratio. Also be careful rendering to large sizes when you have Larges and Originals turned off, since we have to generate them from your Mediums and they’ll look terrible.
Enjoy! We should have some other great stuff shortly, I’m hoping by the end of the week.
