BarB’s BloG

New features - August 31, 2006

Ok, ok, so we’ve had two releases since I last posted. I’m a slacker - I admit it. Please forgive me.

Of course, that makes it look like we have a huge release today, when really, it’s like 3 releases rolled into one. Here we go:

• 14-day free trials instead of 7!
• No credit card required to try SmugMug - friction free signup!
• Can freely upgrade and downgrade between account levels during trial so you can experience them all.
• Streamline signup process - takes you right to creating your first gallery instead of making you read a welcome page full of stuff no-one wanted to read.
• Streamline creating gallery process - take you right to adding photos after creating a gallery, rather than dumping you on a new empty gallery.
• Theme preview on gallery creation!
• Upgraded the Universal Drag & Drop uploader to show both a per-photo and a per-batch status bar.
• New Pro Pricing tool. Much faster, AJAX’d, new gradient design. Quickly price groups of products, including highlighting the ones you’ll be changing.
• Bulk Pro Pricing - price all your galleries at once.
• Tweaked the PhotoRank algorithm to be more fair.
• Added ‘quick pricing’ when creating a gallery for Pros.
• Added ‘create category’ when creating a gallery.
• Added ‘create subcategory’ when creating a gallery.
• Added YUI includes on all pages, rather than just some, for all of our hackers to really play with.
• Show filenames in cart and pro order summaries.
• Added the ability for customers to reset their Print Order password.
• Made the upload log show only last 24 hours by default, with options to expand to recent week or month.
• Fixed watermark fade previewer.
• Updated the cart and catalogs to be more clear about which print sizes belong to with categories. Got rid of ‘xD’ on print size names - no-one knew what they were anyway.
• Cancelling out of customize gallery and bulk settings now puts you back in the right place every time.
• Setting your preferences to ‘Original’ no longer destroys Filmstrip style.
• Made PhotoRank votes on tiny images get discarded so Popular Photos doesn’t fill up with junk.
• Fixed sending Pro Sales emails to non-Pro users. Ooops.
• Pro sales emails didn’t have proper totals. Oops.
• Use the customer’s first & last names, instead of ‘A customer ordered’ in Pro sales emails.
• Allowed setting a $0 download price (to disable it).
• Couldn’t add to the shopping cart when only digital downloads were available (no prints).
• Render tiny PNG transparent watermarks on-the-fly so they look better when doing custom watermarks.
• Copying Pro pricing from one gallery to another didn’t work for digital download prices.
• Fixed a browsing bug in SmugMug style on popular, dates, and keywords.
• Replaced missing “map this” button on some pages.
• Fixed bogus error message when attempting to upgrade from Pro.
• Deleting a single photo somehow got broken. Fixed.
• Fixed small bugs in Old Family Album, Longest Yard, Christmas, Sand, and Bon Voyage themes.
• Fixed returning from customizing your geography.
• Fixed a bug where orders with prints from multiple Pros and Proof-Delay could result in one Pro shipping the order before the other Pro was done.