Things you might notice:
Powerful new “buy multiples” interface so you (and your customers) can pack the new shopping cart to the brim. Print the whole gallery as 4×6 glossies, and add 10 photos as 5×7 lustre prints, 2 as mousepads, and a handful of 8×10s. All without leaving the page.
Our homepage has [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
You may have noticed some subtle changes to SmugMug’s look and feel, especially if your galleries use SmugMug’s default theme like this one does.
Specifically, you’ll see less green, a more readable font, an off-black (rather than stark-black) background, new share button, capitalization where appropriate (also to improve readability), and an overall cleaner look.
Love it? Hate [...]
Video
When we released SmugMungous video several months ago, our customers were ecstatic. Finally, their photos AND videos looked better on SmugMug.
As the dust settled, however, we saw there was still room for improvement. For starters, videos can really light up a forum post or blog and our Quicktime video solution didn’t allow embedding. [...]
Sometimes we do the right thing in the wrong way. Many of you requested a square thumbs tool over the years. Unfortunately, we launched when it was a good bit less than perfect, and you were quick to call us on it. We should never have released ’square thumbs’ without providing an easy way [...]
Slideshow: Captions are back! Many of you wrote in to let us know they were missed. We’re really sorry for any inconvenience, it was always our intention to include them with the new show, but we needed to release and debug v1.0 first. We heard your comments on slideshow thumbnails as well, you like them, [...]
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 [...]
