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New Buttons and More – September 26, 2008
With this release, we’ve done away with separate “buy this photo” and “buy multiple photos” links on gallery pages, in favor of a Buy button:
- For logged-in subscribers, the Buy button houses links to create a card, create a photo book, order gallery backup, and peruse mounting and framing options, in addition to links to buy through SmugMug’s shopping cart.
- For visitors, the Buy button houses the same two options as before: essentially buy single and buy multiple.
We also changed the Share button to be a drop-down menu with two options:
- Send an Email
- Get a Link
The other buttons on gallery pages (Map This, Themes, Add Photos, View Cart, and Slideshow) were changed to match.
Important button notes:
- If you’ve customized your buttons, you’ll want to read this thread on Digital Grin.
- An unfortunate side effect of the slick new buttons is that you’ll no longer be able to use CSS to show the buy options underneath your photos, sorry!
Also changed with this release:
- The home link at the end of embedded videos no longer takes you back to a gallery with the Hide Owner option enabled.
- Beefed up the cart to elegantly handle filtering for our new metallic prints.
- Worked some magic on slideshows and videos to make them load faster.
- Updated help pages to reflect the button changes.
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Sadly, the updated Slideshow still doesn’t work with Firefox 3.x + Adblock… is there really nothing you can do on your end to fix this? Every other Flash site I go to seems to work fine with FF3 and adblock, but not SmugMug (slideshow + videos)
Hi,
I just want to say thanks for all of the wonderful updates (“magic”) that you are always working on. I love to go to “Our release note blog” at least every week because there is usually something new there. That tells me that all of the “magicians” in the Smugmug halls are very busy. I tell all of my clients that your company is dynamic and constantly improving. I tell that that you are a family owned business where the owner is at the helm of a nimble ship, and he has an open door policy. I like that. I like that you can safely navigate in the rocky waters of the marketplace where other hulking bureaucratic entities either stagnate or get sunk.
Thanks, Smugmug. You are the best. Stay fresh and passionate.
- Bob
bobthecamerman.com
PS – I like your initial response to Canon’s action on the 5D high def. video thing. And I also like your response to your response.
Everything looks really good except Slideshow is broken on Vista too. Before the update Slideshow was very popular among my clients.
How come no Release Notes for so long? Have there been no improvements?
Signed,
Concerned Bob
and
Likes-To-Read-Release-Notes-Often Bob
@Bob: Thanks for asking! We hardly ever discuss details of releases ahead of time, but I will tell you that we have a real whammy coming your way in the near future. It should give you lots to read, so stay tuned.
Thanks so very much for putting this online.