We had two small releases recently that cleared up several angst-causing bugs.
We made some fixes to keystroke navigation. In SmugMug viewing style, you can now browse using the arrows, and open light box using S, M, L, 1, 2, 3, O, A and X to close without any hiccups.
Browsing using <Prev and [...]
Fixed up our card creator and outfitted it with 4 new cards, all baby announcements. (Find it in the photo tools menu beneath any photo.)
Fixed a flash slideshow bug, so it should work beautifully on all browsers now (including pre-caching properly in the latest version of Safari).
Changed Smuggy on embedded videos. He’s now a discreet [...]
SmugShot
At the time of this blog post, thousands of people are already using SmugShot on their iPhonesTM… so “lagged” would be putting the situation mildly.
SmugShot is an application for the iPhone available for free via Apple’s App Store in iTunes.
Essentially it allows you to upload photos straight to your SmugMug account from your [...]
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. [...]
