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.
Posted by Barb 
Posted by Barb 
