Archive for June, 2008

New shopping cart — June 27, 2008

Friday, June 27th, 2008

This is a major release that vastly improves buying prints and gifts.

It’s faster.  And it should stay fast after adding many hundreds of items
It’s much easier to use.
It’s prettier.
It’s the key to adding features like coupons in the not-too-distant future.

Many thanks to hundreds of SmugMug customers who gave us feedback on usability and features.
There are [...]

SmugVault: Store anything — June 22nd, 2008

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

We dedicate this feature to our customers in Iowa who lost everything from tornadoes and floods.
See 30Bone’s photos.

Here’s the overview and help page about SmugVault, and our Chief Geek’s blog.
We’ll try to answer some questions here that those pages don’t:
What is Amazon’s role, and what is yours?

Amazon provides the physical storage, reporting, and billing.
SmugMug provides [...]

Bug fixes & conveniences – June 20, 2008

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

By popular demand:  The save photo icon is now visible when you are logged in even if you have originals turned off.  No worries, your visitors won’t see it.  To check that, you can log out — or click the visitor view button on your home page.
Sorry for the panic this caused for many people [...]

Tools clean up – June 3rd, 2008

Friday, June 20th, 2008

After gathering feedback, we cleaned out some seldom-used and redundant photo tools, organized and shined up the rest, and fixed bugs along the way.
Every single tool was fussed over to make it more intuitive and faster. Keep an eye out for round 2 (and 3, and 4, and …) but round 1 brought major improvements [...]