Archive for the 'release notes' Category

Bulk settings, bulk replace for pros, badge love, feed and iPhone opt-outs – October 29, 2009

Friday, October 30th, 2009

You’ll find a magical new button in gallery settings called Multiple Galleries.  Choose it to apply any number of gallery settings to as many galleries as you please.  More.

Pros will find a time-saving new Replace Multiple Photos button for their Proof & Retouch orders.  It automagically replaces photos from sales with your retouched photos having [...]

Pro Cart Cobranding, Old Journal-Style Love, bug fixes – October 26, 2009

Monday, October 26th, 2009

As a first step towards deeper pro branding through the order process, we added the ability for pro account holders to add their own identity to every page of the shopping cart.  Here’s how.
Example:

You’ll find the beginnings of a pro branding center in your control panel, Pro tab.
The much-loved Old Journal style received some love, [...]

Animoto, Better Viewing, and Homepage Goodies for All – October 22, 2009

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Animoto
Last night we rolled out a partnership with Animoto that we’ve been excited about for years. You’ll find “Create an Animoto Video” in the Owner Only section of the Buy button when you’re logged in. Discover why we love Animoto on our CEO’s blog and on our help page.
Gallery viewing styles
We overhauled another [...]

Big changes to SmugMug’s codebase – October 15th, 2009

Friday, October 16th, 2009

We’ve been working for many months on a change that has involved every engineer at SmugMug and has kept the testers working evenings and weekends.
This release touched almost every feature and page and we’re still standing by to monitor the changes closely, because simulating the live site with its millions of varied users [...]

Sales History, Cropping, and Get a Link – September 11th, 2009

Friday, September 11th, 2009

With this release, pros who sell prints through SmugMug will see a dramatically improved Sales History, accessible from the Pro tab of their Control Panel. Among other things, we added imageID, albumID, gallery title, and category title to the downloadable CSV. We also added more specific shipping information where possible, including tracking numbers [...]

Introducing NiceNames – August 13th, 2009

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Thanks to the persuasive case many of you made, we’re introducing URLs that can hugely boost your search engine relevance. Plus, they’re so simple you can describe them over the phone.
Behold the power of a NiceName:
Old URL:

http://cmac.smugmug.com/gallery/8611000_VW7PY
New URL:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/Family/June-2009
NiceNames can skyrocket your findability (SEO)
Choose your NiceNames well, and your galleries will have much [...]

Bug Fixes and Cleanup – July 23, 2009

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

We rolled out the following changes:

Several of our uploader pages got a scrubbing and choosing an uploader is now easier.
We have a new help page listing our official supported browsers, to help troubleshoot problems for you and your visitors.
Our Simple uploader is now more patient and doesn’t quit on files that take [...]

Improved Viewing Styles and Bug Fixes – July 10, 2009

Friday, July 10th, 2009

We’re really pleased to unveil stunning updates to how you view your galleries. Now the Slideshow and Journal viewing styles will keep up with your bigger and better browsers. Under the new Style button at the top of your gallery, you can try them out for yourself. Let your jaw drop, view the [...]

Be Social and a New Uploader- July 1st, 2009

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

We hope this release was worth the wait! We’re thrilled to announce lots of the social features requested by our customers.
If you have the “Easy Sharing” option enabled in your gallery settings, you’ll see the following new options in your Share menu when you’re logged in:

Social Bookmarking – quickly share galleries with lots [...]

SMUGs! – May 7th, 2009

Saturday, May 9th, 2009

We had a great release last night, but the part we’re most excited about has actually been going on behind the scenes for several weeks now.
SmugMug User Groups (SMUGs) kicked off with a great turnout at SmugMug HQ in April. SmugMug sorcerers were on hand to divulge some of the magic they’re working on and [...]