Archive for February, 2008

A step back to move ahead…

Friday, February 29th, 2008

We’ve made an important change to the way Customizer’s JavaScript is loaded and handled: we put it back the way it was. We further tweaked it with the addition of a JavaScript ‘footer box.’ Nothing ventured nothing gained, we simply figured out a better way to increase performance. Moving JavaScript down to the footer box [...]

SmugMug goes Hollywood

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

We’ve done a good bit of tweaking this round, but on the excitement scale, none of it compares with our introduction into production. This week we roll out the first of our SmugMug How-To videos: The SmugMug Quick Start Guide. Designed to provide further insight into usage, navigation and customization, the SmugMug How-To videos will [...]

“The only good bug, is a dead bug!”

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

Andrew Carnegie used to tell his children, “Take care of the pennies, and the pounds will take care of themselves.” As exciting as it is to release amazing new technology and features, the genius is in the details.
* Added a vital ‘Gotcha’ to the Galleries: Creating Help page .
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Migrate to SmugMug from Picasa Web

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Avast! SmuggLr will now grab yer photo booty from Picasa Web and haul it back to SmugMug to stash in our fine holds.
Join us on the good ship SmugMug and get 50% off your first year. Just be usin’ the coupon code: picasaweb when you sign up for SmugMug!

SmugKeys, Unlisted and ‘Lock it Down’

Friday, February 8th, 2008

We’ve implemented some important changes to the site to make our privacy options more powerful and easier to understand.
SmugMug gallery, image and video URLs are now appended with keys: an underscore and five alpha-numeric characters. So URLs now look like this: http://cmac.smugmug.com/gallery/2504559_f3ta9 (gallery url) and this http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/131481399_ZnZmK-L.jpg (image url).
Where we used to call galleries [...]