Archive for the 'release notes' Category

Holiday Gift Mugs

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Our popular white, 15-ounce ceramic photo mugs come printed with your favorite photo, then filled with a variety of rich, luxurious gourmet hot chocolate  or melt-in-your-mouth candy cane caramels.

Candy mugs come filled with buttery caramel balls dressed in a festive, candy-sprinkled peppermint cover. Exclusively ours from Marich Confectionery.

Cocoa mugs come filled with four single-serve packs [...]

New Mounted and Framed Prints

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Announcing Metal Prints and Thin Wraps from Bay Photo, Framed and Mounted prints from EZ Prints:
The two EZ Prints products are available to all subscribers, the two Bay Photo products are available to pro subscribers and their customers.
Pros: we zeroed your pricing for these products so your customers won’t see them in the shopping cart [...]

UTF-8 keywords. ShootDotEdit. ScanDigital.

Friday, November 13th, 2009

By popular demand from exotic lands like Iceland with exotic alphabets, we bring you UTF-8 (international character) keyword support.

We’ve been getting great scans of old film from ScanDigital, so we added them to the buy menu.  They can upload your scans to SmugMug.  Example: a very precocious-looking future SmugFounder.

Love shooting but hate correcting?   You’ll find [...]

Major card upgrade – November 10, 2009

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

We welcomed several new card designers this year and expanded our selection of 5×7 folded and 4×8 cards to over 200!  You can see them at http://cards.smugmug.com.

You can of course order a card with just a photo on the front and no design.  Ordering help.  Or you can design your own cards from scratch on [...]

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 [...]