The SmugMug Blog

Busy holiday season for everyone at SmugMug, but especially me.

As a result, we had a ton of new things build up over the holidays and have a much bigger than normal release today. Here’s the list:

• Drag-n-Drop “arrange mode” for photos. Right from your gallery pages, you can re-order the photo display on ‘smugmug’, ‘smugmug small’, ‘Traditional’, and ‘All Thumbs’.
• New Drag-n-Drop option in the dropdown for Journal, Filmstrip, and Slideshow
• New “light box” popup view for larger photos. Try clicking on the medium-sized photo on ‘smugmug’ or ‘smugmug small’ galleries and see what you think.
• New “light box” popup view for Original sized photos all over the site.
• New ‘arrange categories’ tool
• New ‘arrange subcategories’ tool
• New ‘add to cart’ functionality is faster & easier
• New ‘batch add’ cart functionality is much better for adding hundreds of photos to your cart
• Super-speed on the shopping cart (the whole cart is now much faster, especially for carts with thousands (!!) of items)
• Revamped most of the help sections
• New “About Us” pages
• New news entries, including some video
• New smugmug pricing ($39.95/yr, $59.95/yr, $149.95/yr) for new accounts. Old accounts still at old levels, and will be for years
• New order emails, including details on estimate ship time for prints
• New shipping emails, including clickable tracking numbers
• New order details page shows you the current status of your order and possibly shipping information
• Times shown on pages should represent your local timezone
• “Make 2nd copy” now copies the Geo data too
• Updated beta uploader link and page
• Fixed slashes in Categories & SubCategories
• Customizers can reverse the way the arrows in Filmstrip work
• Fixed a problem with + signs in AJAX entries

And major changes to search:

• MUCH faster results. Go ahead, try it.
• No more lame type-ahead searching
• Search bar is now smart and remembers where you are while you’re searching
• Searching now works deeply throughout the site. You can now search for photos within a specific gallery, Category, SubCategory, Community, etc. You can then “drill up” to more broad search results.
• User results show count and pages links
• Gallery results show count and pages links
• Customizers can put the string SMUGSEARCH in their header to include the search bar in their custom look & feel
• Customizers search results are now customized too
• Removed some XSS vulnerabilities in search

There’s probably more, but some may have slipped through the cracks. I’ll follow up if it’s anything significant.