Silky-smooth slideshow eye candy
Huge thanks to our passionate customers who poured out their hearts about their dream slideshow: silky-smooth cross-dissolves, full screen, thumbnails, beautiful aesthetics and…speed, baby.
We thought we’d have to choose between speed, size and smoothness but after months of sweat we’re ready to call it awesome if you are. Click the slideshow button and let us know what you think.
The slideshow gallery style, which you get to by choosing from the pull-down menu in the upper right of gallery pages, inherited the new goodness. Turn captions on or off, choose photo sizes, and make thumbnails visible or not. Then admire silky transitions.
Square thumbnails: By popular demand we added a square thumbs option to the customize gallery tools. Turn this feature on to give your gallery a clean, symmetrical look.
The square thumbs option won’t take effect until you do something that generates new display copies, such as rotating, watermarking, or adding new photos. To apply square thumbs to an existing gallery, use a bulk tool like rotate photos after you select the square thumbs option.
Preview: To see your site as your adoring fans will, just click the new visitor view button at the top of your home page or a category page. Pros: it lets you see your pricing as your customers will.
Custom domain sweetness: You don’t have to be an uber-geek to configure custom domains anymore. SmugMug Pros who want their own domains can do it the easy way. Check the link for our new domain partnership with Godaddy.
Video: There are new video help sections for adding and editing. We usually don’t talk much of future features but this time we will: the Flash goodness in our new slideshow is coming soon to video.
We fixed a video bug that made some videos larger (more bytes) than what you uploaded.
Help pages: They now cover Visitor View and Square Thumbs.
Mac lovers: There is an improved version of our beloved MacDaddy uploader. And we fixed a bug relating to the Drag & Drop arrange feature in SmugMug and Traditional styles when using Safari.
Bugs: Our popular photos galleries now stretches to fill your screen. This bug also affected customizers who had styled their own popular pages. Another bug prevented some user customization and themes from working when using a site-wide password. Fixed. Several SmugMaps bugs were squashed. Polaroid JPEGs that wouldn’t upload before do now. Custom-sized images now use the photo sharpening settings available to power and pro subscribers.
Keepsake box and puzzle: They’ve been removed from the gifts catalog pending a bug fix and better puzzles. They’ll be baaaaaack, and better than ever.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:39 am
In Linux / Firefox 2.0.0.12 there is a green box where the slideshow button should be. When I click the green box a small black window opens up with no images visible. Any attempt to resize the small window cause it to close.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080207 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.12
March 17th, 2008 at 11:00 am
HI Luke, what version of flash do you have? use this link to check. Thanks!
March 17th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
It does not appear to work with my setup either when using Firefox 2.0.0.12, but does if I use IE (both under Vista).
March 17th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hi Dan, as always, tackling bugs is a full-time job here. The best course to alert us when you are having difficulty is to contact a Support Hero at our help desk. They’re always standing by to save the day.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Congrats smugmug, this is some awesome new stuff!
Cor
March 21st, 2008 at 9:25 am
Love the new slideshow. Beautiful. It even beats Phanfare for stills. Can’t wait for the new video stuff.
PS… Still hoping and crossing fingers for longer length restrictions on video.
March 23rd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I read in your notes that in the new slideshow option, I can turn off the thumbnails at the bottom of the page; however, when I e-mailed Smugmug about how to do that, Dustin told me that it wasn’t possible to turn off the thumbnails. Is there a way to do it, because I like for my clients to see a slideshow with just the one image and no other distractions on the page. Thanks.
March 27th, 2008 at 6:14 am
With regards to the new video flash features, also have a look here which may give you some ideas. I particularly like the instant preview when you hover over a thumbnail.
http://videoshow.vertigo.com/
March 29th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
It works great in MSIE but in Firefox3B4 I just get a black screen.
April 17th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Sorry all, I’ve fallen a bit behind in responding to comments. [Bad Rogue! hmm, is that an oxymoron?]
Traci: You’ve probably noticed the ’silkier smoother’ slideshow 2.0.
Thumbnails ‘apparate.’ We hope you and your clients are likin’ it.
Raul: Thanks for the heads up, I’ll pass it along.
Shogun: Those bugs should all have been hunted down and dealt with by now. If you are experiencing any difficulties, give the Support Heroes a holler.