Archive for the 'new features' Category

New features – August 2007

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

We had two great releases this month that satisfied some long-standing feature requests, and squashed an annoying Norton security software bug. Enjoy!

Filenames now show for you and your visitors throughout the cart and on your order status page. Just toggle the “filenames” option to “yes” in your gallery settings.
Pros! On your pro pricing page, [...]

iPhones and more enhancements – July 2007

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

You may have noticed several SmugMuggers love their iPhones. We played with them all month and you can read the details on the iPhone support beginning on Don’s blog.
Here’s the short story. Round 1:

A link from your homepage to iPhone if you’re browsing on your phone.
A link on your iPhone back to ‘Full [...]

A few small releases – June 2007

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

We’ve been working on making SmugMug more visitor-friendly and helping free-trialers get their feet wet, so you may not have noticed many of the changes we made this month.

All-new Visitor help pages!
New whypay page.
We now limit SmugMug indexing of keywords to 15. You can still enter as many as you want, but only the [...]

SmugIslands and more – released May 2007

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Lots of exciting additions this month, along with a few tweaks and bug fixes.

Your own private island! We’d been dreaming about, preparing for (lots more servers), and testing this feature for months before releasing it because we wanted to get it right . You’ve had a few months to play with it… how’d we [...]

Themes, bug fixes, and loot – released April 2007

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Lots of bug fixes and some great new goodies this month.

In some webmail clients (squirrel mail), some of the text in share emails was invisible (black on black). We cleaned up some of the HTML so it forced the text to white.
Lots of API changes and fixes.
Fixed titles and descriptions on SmugMug Popular feeds.
For [...]

Bug fixes and Jim – released March 2007

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

When we say “Release early, release often,” we mean it. However, as you may have noticed, publishing release notes regularly proved to be a bit more difficult for us.
Don’t worry though, we’re back and we’ll bringing these release notes up-to-speed. Buckle your seat belts.

Fixed Bon Voyage theme bug that [...]

New features – February 23rd, 2007

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Have some great new features and plenty of bug fixes today. Some of it will be pretty intangible, but we’ve sped up major portions of the site significantly.

SmugMug is now an OpenID 1.1 Provider. This means you can use your SmugMug URL as your ID on lots of sites all over the net. [...]

New Features, Themes, and Bug Fixes – Jan thru Feb 2007

Monday, February 12th, 2007

We’ve made lots of small changes over the last few weeks, here’s a roll-up for ya:

Grey by Mike Lane
Sunshine by Matt Constantine
Groovy Spring by Greg Wellman
Tennis Anyone? by Dee Golden and Andy Williams
Dark Sand by Lee Shepherd and Andy Williams
Gradient – Grey
Added Quantcast tracking to your pages. You can now see some interesting stats [...]

Speed, Beauty & Brains Part Deux – Jan 22, 2007

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

As always, we had some bug fixes to take care of after such a major release. After nearly two months of beta testing with all of our users, you’d have thought we’d have nailed them all in advance, but a few slipped through. Most of it revolved around advanced customization techniques.
If [...]

Speed, Beauty & Brains – January 22nd, 2007

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

Wow, this one was much more painful and took far longer than we anticipated. Thanks so much to the thousands of you that helped us beta-test it over the last 1.5 months. We really do appreciate it and it’s a much better release thanks to you.
On with the show:

Speed – faster [...]