Smugmug bugs and feature requests #7

[bigwebguy]

If not the full caption at LEAST put some visible way to differentiate pictures from videos! People looking for videos can't tell which ones are videos until they click on it, and people looking for pictures get confused when a video pops up!

The only way the caption shows is by putting it in Traditional mode, or Journal mode, which both aren't as good as Smugmug mode for pictures.

Letting captions show in Smugmug mode, or at least putting "Video" underneath or something, would be the best of both worlds!

do you mean under the thumbnails?

[DodgeV83]

Yea. I understand that the full caption might be too big, but there is room underneath the thumbnails for "Video" or "Video: Shannon", so the person knows its a video, and knows what the video is about (if the thumbnail of the video isn't enough).

This way I wouldn't have to set it to "Force traditional mode" so everyone knows which ones are videos, and which ones are pictures.

do you mean under the thumbnails?

[Andy]

If not the full caption at LEAST put some visible way to differentiate pictures from videos! People looking for videos can't tell which ones are videos until they click on it, and people looking for pictures get confused when a video pops up!

The only way the caption shows is by putting it in Traditional mode, or Journal mode, which both aren't as good as Smugmug mode for pictures.

Letting captions show in Smugmug mode, or at least putting "Video" underneath or something, would be the best of both worlds!

i put your feature request in the feature request thread :D

fwiw, the captions show underneath the pic, yes not the thumbnail. i usually put the videos last in the gallery, and tell my visitor that there are vids at the end, and i put this not in the gallery description.

[LuckyCritters]

Here's a couple feature requests....


1. I would love to have the ability to specify how sub-categories are ordered. All my categories relate to events, sub-categories relate to classes and galleries relate to competitors. The current method for displaying the sub-catergories leaves them in no logical order. At least nothing that's logical for the competitor.

2. The ability to do bulk gallery manipulations WITHIN A CATEGORY & SUBCATEGORY. I've only uploaded 2 events and I already have 700+ galleries. Anything I try to do in bulk mode is just plain unusable. Yet, without using bulk mode everything has to be done gallery by gallery. *ouch* Very time consuming.

The following feature requests have already been asked for, but I'd like to take the opportunity to give them a bump and to reiterate their importance.

1. Custom watermarking
2. Ability to sell digital downloads

Thanks for the great product!

Chris
http://gallery.luckycritters.com

[NikonGirl]

This should be simple enough to do, but I guess it depends on how many people want this. I'm proposing that when you're viewing your own smugmug website, and you click on the Help link, the help page open in a new browser window, rather than opening in the same window. Typically, I like to switch back and forth between help and my site - reading instructions, going back and doing it, switching back to read more instructions, etc. etc. When I'm done with Help, I close it.

And yes, right now I do right-click and select open in new window (when I remember). but mostly I forget. Anyway, it would be nice if this would be the default.

Again, I may be in the minority here on this one. But I'm curious to know if others agree with me.

[Andy]

Again, I may be in the minority here on this one. But I'm curious to know if others agree with me.

i'm putting this suggestion where it belongs, in the feature requests thread :D

[DodgeV83]

Please add the ability to limit the ranking of pictures by only letting each person vote once (by logging the IP address). The only thing my other site has on Smugmug is this. It allowed me to hold competitions and have everyone vote for which video was best!

[dragon300zx]

Well the ordering system is super easy to use, and easy to do crops and stuff like that. One major issue I found I have with it tonight is it's so time consuming. When I have to order tons of prints (say for a wedding) it is cumbersom (unless I am missing something). Having to look at each pic, choose buy it, go through the shopping cart (easy but not super fast), and start again with another pic is kinda slow. Specially when you have 160 different photos you are ordering prints of. Took several hours tonight. Is there a faster way to do this that I don't know about? What I would like to see is the ability to view thumbs and highlight every pic I want printed in some way (either a check box next to the ones I want to order or being able to selectively highlight each one), add all of the prints to the cart at once, and then go through doing the sizes, papers, and other adjustments. Is this a possability? Please say it is please.

[{JT}]

Have you not clicked on the button right next to buy it that says multiples?

Is that what you are looking for, or am I mistaken?


Well the ordering system is super easy to use, and easy to do crops and stuff like that. One major issue I found I have with it tonight is it's so time consuming. When I have to order tons of prints (say for a wedding) it is cumbersom (unless I am missing something). Having to look at each pic, choose buy it, go through the shopping cart (easy but not super fast), and start again with another pic is kinda slow. Specially when you have 160 different photos you are ordering prints of. Took several hours tonight. Is there a faster way to do this that I don't know about? What I would like to see is the ability to view thumbs and highlight every pic I want printed in some way (either a check box next to the ones I want to order or being able to selectively highlight each one), add all of the prints to the cart at once, and then go through doing the sizes, papers, and other adjustments. Is this a possability? Please say it is please.

[dragon300zx]

Have you not clicked on the button right next to buy it that says multiples?

Is that what you are looking for, or am I mistaken?

Nope the mistake was mine (if only I had figured that out earlier:bash ). Well I'll know for next time at least. Well I've got two weddings this weekend at least when I order for those it will go faster.

[{JT}]

We tried to make that choice more obvious in the new design, but I guess we could do more work on it. Hopefully you have tried using the quick settings once you are in the cart to speed up copying choices from one photo to another (or all) :)

Nope the mistake was mine (if only I had figured that out earlier:bash ). Well I'll know for next time at least. Well I've got two weddings this weekend at least when I order for those it will go faster.

[Mike Lane]

Nope the mistake was mine (if only I had figured that out earlier:bash ). Well I'll know for next time at least. Well I've got two weddings this weekend at least when I order for those it will go faster. Just put the following code in your stylesheet html:

.cartbuttons a.nav {
font-size:300pt;
}

It'll make the "multiple photos" thing really freaking huge!!!! You won't be able to miss it next time, I promise you. :rofl:thumb

[dragon300zx]

We tried to make that choice more obvious in the new design, but I guess we could do more work on it. Hopefully you have tried using the quick settings once you are in the cart to speed up copying choices from one photo to another (or all) :)

Yeah love the quick settings. :thumb

[peestandingup]

Has the "Smugmug Style" bug been discussed? What happenes to me is that under "customize gallery" I will force the style "Smugmug". Then, when I check it with other browsers, it is actually forcing "Smugmug Small" and not the normal Smugmug Style that I want. Whats up with that?

And, it was mentioned earlier that it is just compensating for my lack of screen real estate and forcing the Smugmug Small style. Well, I doubt thats the case because I got a 27" LCD im using. Is there a code or fix for this? Thanks.

[mbrady]

And, it was mentioned earlier that it is just compensating for my lack of screen real estate and forcing the Smugmug Small style. Well, I doubt thats the case because I got a 27" LCD im using. Is there a code or fix for this? Thanks.
What resolution is your video card set to use? The physical size of the monitor doesn't matter, although I imagine with a monitor that big, you are probably already set to a pretty high resolution.

Matt

[Richard]

I am planning on submitting this to Smugmug as formal request, but I thought I might get some discussion going here and hopefully drum up some support. :D

I think that Smugmug needs to give its users a way to preview changes before they are posted to the public site. In IT terms, a test environment. This would allow us to see how our galleries will look prior to any global changes that Smugmug makes. We could also see what our own customizations do before our visitors are subjected to our silly mistakes. Finally, by making global changes to the test environment well in advance of putting them into the "live" site, we could all help uncover bugs before our visitors see them.

What I envision is a new widget (a button on the control panel, perhaps) that switches the account owner into the test environment. Initially, the test environment simply mirrors the live environment. Changes of all sorts would be made there and could be saved in test without necessarily affecting the live site. A control in the test environment would allow us to "push" the changes into production.

This is not a radical idea, of course. All serious Web and IT installations implement this in some form. Why not let Smugmuggers have the same convenience?

Cheers,

[Richard]

There is no way of knowing the subject of a new bug report or feature request without entering the thread and looking. This makes it rather hard to attract anybody's attention. :cry:cry

Just my .02€

[Andy]

There is no way of knowing the subject of a new bug report or feature request without entering the thread and looking. This makes it rather hard to attract anybody's attention. :cry:cry

Just my .02€

i assure you that the smugmug folks watch this thread diligently - and subscribe to it, so they get an email when new posts are made. thanks for your input, it's really awesome that folks like you take the time to help make smugmug a better place :bow

[Richard]

i assure you that the smugmug folks watch this thread diligently - and subscribe to it, so they get an email when new posts are made. thanks for your input, it's really awesome that folks like you take the time to help make smugmug a better place :bow I'm sure that Smugmug is paying attention. Their support is first rate. :thumb I guess what I am looking for is an easier way to discuss new feature ideas with other users. You'll have to admit that a sticky thread is not the best way to facilitate this.

[Andy]

I am planning on submitting this to Smugmug as formal request, but I thought I might get some discussion going here and hopefully drum up some support. :D

I think that Smugmug needs to give its users a way to preview changes before they are posted to the public site. In IT terms, a test environment. This would allow us to see how our galleries will look prior to any global changes that Smugmug makes. We could also see what our own customizations do before our visitors are subjected to our silly mistakes. Finally, by making global changes to the test environment well in advance of putting them into the "live" site, we could all help uncover bugs before our visitors see them.

What I envision is a new widget (a button on the control panel, perhaps) that switches the account owner into the test environment. Initially, the test environment simply mirrors the live environment. Changes of all sorts would be made there and could be saved in test without necessarily affecting the live site. A control in the test environment would allow us to "push" the changes into production.

This is not a radical idea, of course. All serious Web and IT installations implement this in some form. Why not let Smugmuggers have the same convenience?

Cheers,

i'd love this, if it were technically feasible i'd love to have it.

in the meantime, what i do is *always* make a copy of my css code before i make any mods. if my modification then is incorrect, i can, in seconds, return my site to it's original state.

You'll have to admit that a sticky thread is not the best way to facilitate this.

why not? we're discussing it now, aren't we?

[rainforest1155]

You'll have to admit that a sticky thread is not the best way to facilitate this.why not? we're discussing it now, aren't we?I guess Richard means something like they have over at SourceForge. They have Trackers (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=37116) for every software development group. So when you got a bug or feature to report, you go to the bug tracker and have a look if someone already reported it. If not file your own report and then everybody else can comment on your bugreport. When the developers fixed the bug they change the status of the report to fixed and that's about it.

This would be definately a nice way to channel a lot of the future threads over here into a nice bug/feature request database, but it needs to be done properly and takes some time to set up when you've found a platform to start on.

Just a thought to chime on...

Sebastian

EDIT: example for a free bug tracker (http://phpbt.sourceforge.net/)

[peestandingup]

What resolution is your video card set to use? The physical size of the monitor doesn't matter, although I imagine with a monitor that big, you are probably already set to a pretty high resolution.

Matt
Im using 1280x720. I know its usually 768 resolution for most monitors, so maybe its that. Im using my HDTV as my monitor, so thats why its in that res.

OK, lets do a little experiment. Someone with a monitor that displays at least 1080x768, please go to this gallery and see if its SM small or large. Thanks. http://kerrybailey.smugmug.com/gallery/490493

[Andy]

Im using 1280x720. I know its usually 768 resolution for most monitors, so maybe its that. Im using my HDTV as my monitor, so thats why its in that res.

OK, lets do a little experiment. Someone with a monitor that displays at least 1080x768, please go to this gallery and see if its SM small or large. Thanks. http://kerrybailey.smugmug.com/gallery/490493

it goes to smugmug small if i set my monitor to 800x600

[mbrady]

Im using 1280x720. I know its usually 768 resolution for most monitors, so maybe its that. Im using my HDTV as my monitor, so thats why its in that res.

OK, lets do a little experiment. Someone with a monitor that displays at least 1080x768, please go to this gallery and see if its SM small or large. Thanks. http://kerrybailey.smugmug.com/gallery/490493
I'm running 1400x1050 and it came up as regular smugmug (large) for me.

Matt

[Mike Lane]

Im using 1280x720. I know its usually 768 resolution for most monitors, so maybe its that. Im using my HDTV as my monitor, so thats why its in that res.

OK, lets do a little experiment. Someone with a monitor that displays at least 1080x768, please go to this gallery and see if its SM small or large. Thanks. http://kerrybailey.smugmug.com/gallery/490493
Question for you. Are you saying that you would rather it always be Smugmug rather than Smugmug Small and if so, why?

My thoughts on the subject is that prior to this upgrade, smugmug small would simply shrink the space used by the gallery and not my portions of the cobraning. That is to say that my header image would remain 800 px (or whatever it is) my medium gray box would still be big enough to fit the smugmug style and my footers wouldn't change. If this is your concern then they've built in a solution for you. You will be able to change your individual customization based upon the width of the smugmug small gallery page. I will be covering this very soon in the CSS, Cobranding, and You sticky.

If it's just because you'd rather it not pop up by default on your particular browser, I can't help you there.

BTW, it showed up as the Smugmug ... uh big ... style on my 1280 x 1024 96DPI monitor.

[LOVEphotos]

Hello,

Is there a way to have a contact form instead of providing my direct email address on my smugmug photo website? :huh

I'm trying to avoid spam mail .. I believe a contact form lessens your email address being scanned by spammers.

Thanks for any help or suggestions :):

[Andy]

Hello,

Is there a way to have a contact form instead of providing my direct email address on my smugmug photo website? :huh

I'm trying to avoid spam mail .. I believe a contact form lessens your email address being scanned by spammers.

Thanks for any help or suggestions :):


:wave hello there, and welcome to dgrin! it's a great question - and let me tell you, smugmug, since day one, has guarded vigorously its' members privacy... the email addy that you use to register, is *never* given out, sold, distributed to *anyone* ever. not ever. period.

your email does *not* show on your smugmug page, unless you want to put it there. you only see it becuase you are logged in :D

as for me, on my smugmug site (www.moonriverphotography.com) i've put an "email me" button, and i use my yahoo email address - yahoo's got great spam protection and i've never had an issue with spam.

anyhow, i hope this helps. holler if we can help you more.

[Andy]

I'm running 1400x1050 and it came up as regular smugmug (large) for me.

Matt

... as it's supposed to :deal

[peestandingup]

Thank you all for checking.

Mike, yeah I just want it to always be Smugmug "large" on everyones monitor and never be displayed in Smugmug small. I just like it better & its just a bigger image. Most the peple who come to my site just look at the photos without messing around with sizes etc, so I want them to be nice & big. Seems like they would have both Smugmug & Smugmug Small as choices on the customize gallery section, but they dont. :dunno

EDIT: OK, I just changed my monitor res a couple times to ___x768 and it always displayed it in SM Large. So, it definitely depends on what res your using as to whether or not its SM large or SM small. Im pretty sure it has to be at least 1024x768 to display SM large, which is fine with me since almost every monitor out there is at least that. But, I think they should factor it another way since my res is greater than that in total.

For instance, the first version of Apple iMovie HD wouldnt even open on my monitor. It would say something like "iMovieHD requires a monitor resolution of at least 1024x768" and it would close. Well, they fixed that after the first update because of people like me that were using true 16:9 monitors which have a 1280x720 res instead of 768. Smugmug should look into this.

[{JT}]

Here is the deal. When you go to a gallery - we use the forced style if it is a pro. If not we always look at your cookies to see if you have a preference set, and if so use it. If you don't have a preference set - we look at your resolution and give you smugmug or smugmug small. But, if you have ever visited any gallery - you have a default set, whether you chose it or not.

it goes to smugmug small if i set my monitor to 800x600

[Andy]

Here is the deal. When you go to a gallery - we use the forced style if it is a pro. If not we always look at your cookies to see if you have a preference set, and if so use it. If you don't have a preference set - we look at your resolution and give you smugmug or smugmug small. But, if you have ever visited any gallery - you have a default set, whether you chose it or not.

learn somethign new everyday, i say! thanks jt

[LOVEphotos]

...as for me, on my smugmug site (http://www.moonriverphotography.com/) i've put an "email me" button,
THANKS, Andy ... the folks in this web forum are so willing to help out :):

Yes, I see that u have an email link ... but when clicked the person can still view your email address ... I'm probably being overly protected because I've had to stop using certain email addresses because the SPAM was so CRAZY.

Anyway, I've listed below info that can be in the contact form ... the person fills it out and they don't get your email address unless u email them back and want them to have it :thumb


Send an Email to this Contact:

Enter your name:

E-mail address:

Message subject:

Enter your message:

[LOVEphotos]

How do u get rid of the box around the word 'galleries' on the homepage:scratch

Also, is there a way to control the layout/display of your galleries on the homepage?..

for instance, instead of having two across ... u can have three across :):

Again, any help would be appreciated.

[VMac]

Box Color
In the previous design, we used a class called offshadowbg (could we have been any more vague?) to determine what color the boxes were on your homepage, the equivilant of offshadowbg in the new design is called box. So for those of you who only want to change the color of the boxes all you have to do is this:
Code:

.box { background-color: blue; }

I am working my clueless self through most of these changes, and it is fun, if challenging. :)

I just noticed something though concerning the box color. I have 6 sub-catebories on my front page. The entire box is colored (blue) now in firefox. But I just tried IE for the first time, and noticed something very strange -- the top 2/3 of the box is black (top 4 sub-categories), while only the bottom 1/3 is blue. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Vance

[mmouse]

Hello there! I believe I have found two bugs, one of which is definitely a result of the new 'Phase 2' styles in the galleries, the other may have been around for a while:

1) In the new 'smugmug' and 'smugmug small' styles, clicking on the bottom right corner thumbnail causes everything on the right side (the big photo and all text/links below) to become a link to the next gallery page. I think that the 'next' link at the top isn't getting a proper </a> tag on it, for some reason. It only seems to happen when clicking on the last thumbnail on a page, though. Annoying, since it makes some of the things that are already links (like 'delete this photo') into links to the next photo. :(:

2) I don't know how long this has been happening, but when I go to rearrange a large sharegroup (17 galleries), I have to arrange them one at a time, saving in between. If I move the position of more than one gallery, then hit 'save changes,' only some of my changes stick (i.e., only one or two of the galleries are actually re-ordered correctly).

(Aside: I know that the bug that recently-visited sharegroups are no longer showing up correctly on the home page and gallery pages has been mentioned elsewhere, but I wanted to put in a plug for implementing that fix asap -- thanks! :D )

All of that said, I love the new styles and new CSS work! I know it has to be a lot of work putting it all together, and it is much appreciated. :clap

[{JT}]

Good catch, #1 has been fixed. #2 I have to investigate, sharegroups need to be updated anyway and #3 should be out today also.

Hello there! I believe I have found two bugs, one of which is definitely a result of the new 'Phase 2' styles in the galleries, the other may have been around for a while:

1) In the new 'smugmug' and 'smugmug small' styles, clicking on the bottom right corner thumbnail causes everything on the right side (the big photo and all text/links below) to become a link to the next gallery page. I think that the 'next' link at the top isn't getting a proper </a> tag on it, for some reason. It only seems to happen when clicking on the last thumbnail on a page, though. Annoying, since it makes some of the things that are already links (like 'delete this photo') into links to the next photo. :(:

2) I don't know how long this has been happening, but when I go to rearrange a large sharegroup (17 galleries), I have to arrange them one at a time, saving in between. If I move the position of more than one gallery, then hit 'save changes,' only some of my changes stick (i.e., only one or two of the galleries are actually re-ordered correctly).

(Aside: I know that the bug that recently-visited sharegroups are no longer showing up correctly on the home page and gallery pages has been mentioned elsewhere, but I wanted to put in a plug for implementing that fix asap -- thanks! :D )

All of that said, I love the new styles and new CSS work! I know it has to be a lot of work putting it all together, and it is much appreciated. :clap

[mmouse]

Good catch, #1 has been fixed. #2 I have to investigate, sharegroups need to be updated anyway and #3 should be out today also.

Wow! :wow So fast! Thanks so much! :clap :clap
You all do such a great job! :bow

[SailingArt]

smugmug says: if no caption a filename will show...in the control panel.

i am desperate to find a way to see BOTH the caption AND a filename on every image (preferably on top centered).

Is this at all possible?

Here's prayin...!

[Mike Lane]

smugmug says: if no caption a filename will show...in the control panel.

i am desperate to find a way to see BOTH the caption AND a filename on every image (preferably on top centered).

Is this at all possible?

Here's prayin...!
You could insert the filename into each of your captions.

[SailingArt]

oy...adding filenames for some 15,000 images...NOT fun.....
the frustrating part is that you can get the filename ONLY in the slideshow....
so...cumbersome....

[Cindy]

You could insert the filename into each of your captions.:clapI agree completely. An option to see BOTH the filename & caption would be FANTASTIC. I often would like to include captions but don't want the 'hassle' of having to insert the filenames for each and every image. Exspecailly when I want to include a description of the the image edits I've done for customers but they need to see the filename in order to reference it. It would simply just make life a little bit easier.

[SailingArt]

yes...this is a MAJOR bug-a-boo(very techical description, no?)

we really could use both on each pic....

smugmug...!!!!! listening...???

hey, i'm not proud...i'll beg...!!!!!

[Mike Lane]

:clapI agree completely. An option to see BOTH the filename & caption would be FANTASTIC. I often would like to include captions but don't want the 'hassle' of having to insert the filenames for each and every image. Exspecailly when I want to include a description of the the image edits I've done for customers but they need to see the filename in order to reference it. It would simply just make life a little bit easier.
The only issue I have is that there are people (like me for instance) who are not interested in seeing IMG_5277 or whatever in with their captions. Perhaps this is something that could be added to either the image information (the part in the styles that currently tells the full image size, the current image size, has a link for the exif, the keywords, etc etc etc) or to the alt or title attribute of the image itself.

My vote would be to add it to the image information block but either way would be fine.

[SailingArt]

mike - your point is well taken..you and some others would perhaps not want this filename to appear...so perhaps there could be a control panel switch
that would ask a yes/no for showing filenames along with the captions....
or taking this a step further, a way to not only turn the filename off/on, but where its located (top, bottom, above the caption, etc)..or perhaps that is what you just described...if thats the case, then smack me for being so slow...!

[SailingArt]

but then again, i have found a somewhat passable work-around...

i use a captioning/workflow program for OS X called Photo Mechanic (http://www.camerabits.com)

i just called them and there is a command that i can use to imbed the filename right above the caption....its going to take some work to get all the current files done, but all new postings can now have this added in....

as i said, its a work-around....note that the filename is embedded automatically when i am applying the caption in photo mechanic....makes it a lot easier than manually adding the caption here on-site.

example:

http://photolinkonline.smugmug.com/gallery/737137/10

[Mike Lane]

I have forwarded this on to the smugmug engineers. They wrote back and told me that they were already considering what to do. So never fear, this is on their minds.

BTW, this whole series of replies is off topic to this thread :deal I'll be moving them to the bugs and feature requests soon.

[Cindy]

but then again, i have found a somewhat passable work-around...
example:
http://photolinkonline.smugmug.com/gallery/737137/10
Looks great Adam... but, but... http://www.dgrin.com/images/icons/bncry.gif I really don't want another workaround for something that could be simply fixed by adding one display field for the filename & 3 itty bitty buttons.

O on/off display button - Actual Filename - uploads by default & can be changed to display title

O on/off display button - Caption - This area used for Title or image description however Titles could possibly upload by default.

O on/off display keywords - Actual keywords - upload by default, can change them, leave them the same whatever but you have the option to turn off the display of them without actually removing them :) In customize gallery maybe we could have the option to display or not when uploaded but they'd still be there.

[Cindy]

I have forwarded this on to the smugmug engineers. They wrote back and told me that they were already considering what to do. So never fear, this is on their minds.

BTW, this whole series of replies is off topic to this thread :deal I'll be moving them to the bugs and feature requests soon.
Thanks so very, very much Mike :lust
And sorry for replying off topic. I've got a few more ?'s floating up here so I'm off to find where to post them.
Have a great day!

[gblotter]

As part of the recent phase 3 CSS customizations, shouldn't the keywords page (example at http://sheaf.smugmug.com/keyword/ ) also have a gray customizable minibox around it similar to the homepage keywords gray minibox? (as seen at the bottom of http://sheaf.smugmug.com/ )

It would be great to see this enhancement. The keywords page looks odd without a gray minibox to go with it.

[gblotter]

How about adding a class name to allow me to hide the #username from the subcategory title?

See example at:
http://blotter.smugmug.com/Christmas

I would prefer to omit the #username so that it just says "Christmas sub-categories", but current class names won't allow me to customize things that way.

It seems the most recent phase 3 CSS customizations allow me to hide #username in various places, but perhaps the subcategory page was skipped over by mistake?

[MarkLamble]

I'm not sure why IE is flipping out over this but I found a fix:

.homepage #galleriesBox .boxBottom {
<delete this note and keep whatever styles you may have already set>
_height:100%;
_padding-top:50px;
}

Delete everything between and including the angle brackets (all the red text) and insert the css you have there if any. You may have to play around with the padding-top value to make it look right in IE. The underscores in front of the values are important, do not delete them.
Mike - you're a genius !!!!

Many thanks for this - it's daft but it's the little things like this that drive me nuts...

Cheers,
Mark

[MarkLamble]

You could insert the filename into each of your captions.
I was very reluctantly about to go down this route but I'd REALLY rather not if there's a chance we can have it as a 'Customize Gallery' option in the near future. That way everyone can be kept happy - turning it on or off by gallery.

Cheers,
Mark

[gblotter]

Here is an enhancement request:

It seems that an album page under a category uses Tiny (Ti) photos:
example: http://blotter.smugmug.com/Vacations

However, an album page under a sub-category uses larger Thumbnail (Th) photos:
example: http://blotter.smugmug.com//Easter/108666

For consistency, shouldn't album pages use the same size photos everywhere, regardless of whether the album page is under a category or subcategory?

I prefer the larger Thumbnail photos, but regardless of the size you choose, it seems the same photo size should be used consistently throughout. Maybe there is some logic here that I don't understand.

[{JT}]

Well it is consistent in the fact that if you have more than 6 galleries in a category we use the smaller images and if you have less we use the larger images :)

This has bothered more than a few other people, so I will bring it up with the rest of the team.

Here is an enhancement request:

It seems that an album page under a category uses Tiny (Ti) photos:
example: http://blotter.smugmug.com/Vacations

However, an album page under a sub-category uses larger Thumbnail (Th) photos:
example: http://blotter.smugmug.com//Easter/108666

For consistency, shouldn't album pages use the same size photos everywhere, regardless of whether the album page is under a category or subcategory?

I prefer the larger Thumbnail photos, but regardless of the size you choose, it seems the same photo size should be used consistently throughout. Maybe there is some logic here that I don't understand.

[SailingArt]

mea culpa on the incorrect location for this thread - my doing - stiill getting used to these boards and how they work - didn't meant to cross-polinate...

cindy - i agree with you....

mike - thanks for passing this idea on....

[DavidTO]

Have you not clicked on the button right next to buy it that says multiples?

Is that what you are looking for, or am I mistaken?


So, I just want to report that my mom (a grandmother, but pretty computer savvy) asked me if there isn't some easier way to order prints, that she had to do it one by one. I explained about the multiple button, and of course, she said, "Oh, I missed that."

I know you get all kinds of suggestions about this, but how about this?

buy: this photo (cart) this photo and others (cart)

or

buy: this photo (cart) photos in this gallery (cart)

or

buy: just this photo (cart) more photos (cart)

Just trying to help... (in other words, if you end up not changing it, that's OK by me, too!)

[{JT}]

We debated several different things, but ultimately came up with what you see now based off of asking people we trust. I do however have a howto on how you can change what it says yourself:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/web-tricks/2005/09/06/changing-shopping-cart-action-text/

So, I just want to report that my mom (a grandmother, but pretty computer savvy) asked me if there isn't some easier way to order prints, that she had to do it one by one. I explained about the multiple button, and of course, she said, "Oh, I missed that."

I know you get all kinds of suggestions about this, but how about this?

buy: this photo (cart) this photo and others (cart)

or

buy: this photo (cart) photos in this gallery (cart)

or

buy: just this photo (cart) more photos (cart)

Just trying to help... (in other words, if you end up not changing it, that's OK by me, too!)

[DavidTO]

We debated several different things, but ultimately came up with what you see now based off of asking people we trust. I do however have a howto on how you can change what it says yourself:

http://blogs.smugmug.com/web-tricks/2005/09/06/changing-shopping-cart-action-text/


Thanks for the reply. Like I said, I'm fine if you don't change it, and seeing as how I have a basic account, it looks like I'll have to live with your choice...

;)

[gblotter]

How about adding a class name to allow me to hide the #username from the subcategory title?Thanks JT for working this one in. http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/thumb.gif

[MarkLamble]

I'm not sure why IE is flipping out over this but I found a fix:

.homepage #galleriesBox .boxBottom {
<delete this note and keep whatever styles you may have already set>
_height:100%;
_padding-top:50px;
}

Delete everything between and including the angle brackets (all the red text) and insert the css you have there if any. You may have to play around with the padding-top value to make it look right in IE. The underscores in front of the values are important, do not delete them.
hmmmmm - really confused now....

added this for #categoriesBox as well and it was all working fine in IE two days ago - had a look last night and the problem is back again on the Galleries page but not on the Categories (works on both when I'm logged in) :scratch:scratch:scratch

Any ideas ??

Cheers,
Mark

[MarkLamble]

Am I seeing things, or is there now a filename displayed (assuming you've selected 'Filenames' in your gallery options) under the photo ?

If so, great work guys :clap

If not I'd better lay off the :1drink

[NaturalEye]

My smugmug site is now starting to show on the search engines, but it looks like this:



NaturalEye - powered by smugmug (http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Au.ANzx2mZ1osQpyiRWwG1BLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTBjcWlmbGY5BGwDV1MxBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=11msf9po8/EXP=1126252457/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturaleye.co.uk%2F) http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/sch/bn/nw2.gif (http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ap7va2BBbkVlze1u5ffQsCdLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTBjcWlmbGY5BGwDV1MxBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=11msf9po8/EXP=1126252457/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturaleye.co.uk%2F)

The ultimate in photo sharing. Easily create online photo albums. Share, store, organize and print.

www.naturaleye (http://www.%3Cb%3Enaturaleye).co.uk - 17k - Cached (http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Aoyu3GGPBa3p1SAImmyx7ilLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTA2bTQ0OXZjBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=1781dn9a3/EXP=1126252457/**http%3A%2F%2F216.109.124.98%2Fsearch%2Fcache%3Fp%3Dnaturaleye%26ie%3DUTF-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-GB%253Aofficial%26ei%3DUTF-8%26u%3Dwww.naturaleye.co.uk%26w%3Dnaturaleye%26d%3D5D00F617A8%26icp%3D1%26.intl%3Duk) - More pages from this site (http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Am5mKPIeFmEExs36qH.pmTdLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTA2bTQ0OXZjBHNlYwNzcg--/SIG=163a91rqt/EXP=1126252457/**http%3A%2F%2Fuk.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dnaturaleye%26ie%3DUTF-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-GB%253Aofficial%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dmoz2%26vst%3D0%26vs%3Dwww.naturaleye.co.uk) - Save (http://uk.search.yahoo.com/myresults/insertresult?myfr=srp&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dnaturaleye%26ie%3DUTF-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-GB%253Aofficial%26ei%3DUTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturaleye.co.uk%2F&p=naturaleye&ei=UTF-8&.scrumb=ZhX7OD.WiEY&arch=1) - Block (http://uk.search.yahoo.com/myresults/block?myfr=srp&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naturaleye.co.uk%2F&domain=1&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fuk.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%3Fp%3Dnaturaleye%26ie%3DUTF-8%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-GB%253Aofficial%26ei%3DUTF-8&js=0&.scrumb=ZhX7OD.WiEY)
This doesn't exactly invite anyone to visit! I would really like to be able to co-brand the keywords and metadata....

Gary

[Fine Bottled Water]

Throwing this out there once again:

I use the journal style on my site (http://fatdave.smugmug.com/), and my only complaint is the inability of visitors to see whether pictures have comments. I'd like to have the option to display [via the journal style] the number of comments each picture has, similar to how individual posts on a blog show the number of comments.

I figure this would not only push visitors to read the comments (which I expect often go overlooked), but it would also promote the use of the comments function.

I created this image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/1003/fatdave/samplesmug.jpg) as an example.

Thanks!

[{JT}]

I think I have an idea for this one, just be patient :)

Throwing this out there once again:

[SailingArt]

[QUOTE=MarkLamble]Am I seeing things, or is there now a filename displayed (assuming you've selected 'Filenames' in your gallery options) under the photo ?

well, i don't think your seeing things, but....

as always, a simple explanation.

in control panel, there is a sofware switch that says if no captions, show filename - yes/no

so, unless your seeing a filename AND a caption....or are you seeing one or the other...?

[LuckyCritters]

Along the same lines as showing the filename, here's an idea:

It would be really cool if you could specify dynamic information in the Gallery Description. For example, you could add parameters to all galleries to show the category and subcategory by default in the description.

That way, when someone does a search on my site for their dog, they would be presented with a list of galleries and also which Class (sub category) and Event (category) they represent. And I wouldn't have to update hundreds (soon to be thousands) of galleries one at a time.

EDIT: Example, the gallery description would be something like. **Category**-**SubCategory**<br> - This is a sample category description.

That would be cool! http://www.digitalgrin.com/images/smilies/thumb.gif

[MarkLamble]

[QUOTE=MarkLamble]Am I seeing things, or is there now a filename displayed (assuming you've selected 'Filenames' in your gallery options) under the photo ?

well, i don't think your seeing things, but....

as always, a simple explanation.

in control panel, there is a sofware switch that says if no captions, show filename - yes/no

so, unless your seeing a filename AND a caption....or are you seeing one or the other...?
I'm seeing both :clap - came across this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18149) last night so at least I know I'm not imagining it now....

[limbik]

I'm seeing both :clap - came across this thread (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18149) last night so at least I know I'm not imagining it now....
OK, here are my requests thus far:

#1 - Custom Watermarks
#2 - QTVR Support
#3 - Custom frames/mattes via css

[{JT}]

Ok, here is what I have to say:

1) we know and it is on the list of things to do

2) we never say never, but this is HIGHLY unlikely

3) this is also unlikely to happen due to the amount of divs involved to make it work properly - if you have safari though you can already do it using the single DIV we supply: http://petertoh.com/images/multi-bk.html

OK, here are my requests thus far:

#1 - Custom Watermarks
#2 - QTVR Support
#3 - Custom frames/mattes via css

[Mike Lane]

Ok, here is what I have to say:

1) we know and it is on the list of things to do

2) we never say never, but this is HIGHLY unlikely

3) this is also unlikely to happen due to the amount of divs involved to make it work properly - if you have safari though you can already do it using the single DIV we supply: http://petertoh.com/images/multi-bk.html
3) is already possible in a sense. You can increase the padding around an image or thumbnail and make it the color of the desired frame. You can increase the size of the border outside of that to be a frame. You can even color the border of the image in such a way that it looks like a bevel.

That said, it is possible to add the necessary divs (which could be up to 8) using javascript. Check out: http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200505/transparent_custom_corners_and_borders/
This is something I'm going to try to do once I wrap my head around it :scratch

[{JT}]

Notice I did not say impossible - just highly unlikely that I will increase page weight for the 1% of pros out there who will take advantage of it :)

3) is already possible in a sense.

[gblotter]

Here's an obscure bug.

Look at the #albumNav_bottom page navigation for a Journal style gallery. Notice that the active page number is missing its dark gray color?

example at: http://fatdave.smugmug.com/gallery/775336

This is not a problem for the #albumNav_top page navigation - it has the correct color for the active page number.

Seems to only be a problem with Journal style as far as I know.

[{JT}]

Wow, good catch - fixed, should be out live soon.

Here's an obscure bug.

Look at the #albumNav_bottom page navigation for a Journal style gallery. Notice that the active page number is missing its dark gray color?

example at: http://fatdave.smugmug.com/gallery/775336

This is not a problem for the #albumNav_top page navigation - it has the correct color for the active page number.

Seems to only a problem with Journal style as far as I know.

[VMac]

hmmmmm - really confused now....

added this for #categoriesBox as well and it was all working fine in IE two days ago - had a look last night and the problem is back again on the Galleries page but not on the Categories (works on both when I'm logged in) :scratch:scratch:scratch

Any ideas ??

Cheers,
Mark

Any updates on this? Very frustrating. I've been plugging away for week now, trying all kinds of changes, and can't get the quirky IE background behavior to stop (only in IE, and only when not logged in). Very odd.

Thanks,
Vance

[peestandingup]

We need an html tag for the little description on the bottom of videos that says "To view this movie, you need an mpeg1 player blah blah". It would be nice if we could move that down so that our captions are below the video so people can see them, or perhaps hide it all together. Thanks.

Here is what I mean:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v334/peestandingup/vid2.jpg
Now, dont that look awful?

[Andy]

or perhaps hide it all together.

the problem is, when someone who doesn't know windows media from quicktime, mpeg1 from mpeg4, tries to view the movie and it won't play on their computer ... then the support requests go through the roof at smugmug....

cheers

[peestandingup]

the problem is, when someone who doesn't know windows media from quicktime, mpeg1 from mpeg4, tries to view the movie and it won't play on their computer ... then the support requests go through the roof at smugmug....

cheers
Yeah, but is there really a computer out there in the entire world that wont be able to play mpeg1 files. Even like 10 year old computers can play those.

I understand why they dont give it a tag, but there could at least be a way to move it down so the caption is just below the photo. Or at the very least they could shorten the amount of words they use in explaining that. It takes up like an entire paragraph.

Wouldnt it look much better if they said something like "cant see the video, click here"? And then move the "save as" link down to the image/video info area? Thats where it is for photos, why not videos?

Cheers...Kerry :beer

[Andy]

Yeah, but is there really a computer out there in the entire world that wont be able to play mpeg1 files

:nod and even as small as that %age is, with millions of visitors each day to smugmug, imagine the potential support burden if the message were gone?

[peestandingup]

:nod and even as small as that %age is, with millions of visitors each day to smugmug, imagine the potential support burden if the message were gone?
Very true.

Dont you think they should shorten it though? I mean, thats a rant they go on! :D Like I said, make a "cant see the video, click here" link to a Smugmug help page explaining what to do. And move that link right below the caption. People would still see it and best of all, people would actually see the captions, because the way its set up now there might as well not be a caption on videos because most people dont scroll down that far to see it. And the "save video" link should be where the photo info stuff is, like it is for pictures.

It wouldnt take much work at all. Just a moving around of the info and it would be a huge improvement. :D

[Mike Lane]

Any updates on this? Very frustrating. I've been plugging away for week now, trying all kinds of changes, and can't get the quirky IE background behavior to stop (only in IE, and only when not logged in). Very odd.

Thanks,
Vance
Yes, in fact I do have an update:D

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=18446

[blackqueen]

Hi all, been a Smugmug member for a while but only now getting to grips with lots of it and the new changes. I have posted this in the main forum but wondered if it's some sort of bug or just a feature that's not been sorted properly...

Is there a bug when arranging galleries? I have tried to do this within sub galleries and it just shows me every gallery in the whole of my Smugmug, making it impossible to sort out arranging within certain galleries. Has anyone else encountered this?

So far I've not had any useful hints or fixes on this. I sincerely hope it's not something I have to "just put up with" because it's a bit of a nightmare for me, causing me endless extra work because I have so many galleries that I am trying to arrange in gig order for a band (which is not necessarily position or last updated order). It's difficult to do when you get ever single gallery come up in the re-arranging window, not just the galleries in that sub-category. It SHOULD be as easy as arranging photos within galleries, which only bring up the photos for that gallery. But it isn't.

Anyone got any news or info on this? I'm going prematurely grey and then bald in turns over this... :scratch

Thank you kindly for your attention to the above and keep up the good work on making Smugmug better and better! :thumb

[Andy]

Anyone got any news or info on this? I'm going prematurely grey and then bald in turns over this... :scratch

Thank you kindly for your attention to the above and keep up the good work on making Smugmug better and better! :thumb

i sent the other thread to the engineers thanks for your input :thumb

[tajordan]

I really love the bar graphs showing gallery traffic. The problem is that I have over 1000 galleries, several with the same name in different categories/subcategories. How hard would it be to add the option of viewing the graphs for a category or subcategory individually? Or does this already exist somewhere and I haven't found it? I can look at everything on one REALLY long page, or look at an individual gallery's stats... But not by category or subcat.

This would be very (read: very very very) helpful for me, and hopefully others.

Thoughts, opinions, comments?

[jfriend]

I really love the bar graphs showing gallery traffic. The problem is that I have over 1000 galleries, several with the same name in different categories/subcategories. How hard would it be to add the option of viewing the graphs for a category or subcategory individually?
I've also seen the need for improvements in this area. I like your suggestion of viewing by categories/subcategories. More often than not, I'd like to be able to sort the bar graph presentations by traffic (highest traffic galleries at the top) or by recent upload date (often, the traffic I'm interested in is recently populated galleries). As it is today, the order seems completely random and never what I want. I also have many galleries that need more than a single name to identify them (I need to be able to see category/subcategory to know which gallery it really is. For example, I may have a "Kevin" gallery in each of the 2003, 2004 and 2005 soccer team categories. But, in the bar charts, you can't tell which is which when all you see is the name "Kevin".

--John

[Fine Bottled Water]

I think I have an idea for this one, just be patient :)
Sweet! Patient I can be.

You're the man/woman/person, JT.

[gblotter]

Here's an obscure bug.

My smugmug home page has four galleries displayed in the featured galleries section. Now try to "unfeature" the gallery in position #1 by clicking the "don't feature" button. It ends up hiding all four of the galleries in the featured galleries section - certainly not what expected. Then try featuring a gallery again in position #1 - magically all four featured galleries become visible again.

[James Broome]

Apologies if this has already been brought up (I would assume it has...), but when a user either deletes the only item in their shopping cart or removes all items in their shopping cart, the screen just indicates that their shopping cat is empty. It contains no link back to the galleries they were ordering from.

This is real bad.

EDIT: Nevermind. It has been brought up already (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=9849&highlight=empty+cart).

[Cindy]

Would it be at all possible to add an option in the control panel -> sub-catagories section to enble moving sub-catagories (and the galleries contained therein) to a different Catagory??? This has been disscussed before but... it sure would save alot of time trying to organise and move things around.

Thanks,
Cindy Utterback

[swab29]

Since I use my site or personal and professional use I wanted see if there is a way to make a private gallery.
The point would be to put my family pics taht I can share with my parents but keep that category hidden from the rest of the site so with clients come to the site, they only see what I want them to see.
I know there is a way to make a gallery private but the only way anyone can see that gallery is if they have the directly link I sent them once. Also if I send it only to "mom" and she wants someone else to check out those pictures, she has to know the exact link and gallery number. Why not make a category private, but once in you can go to the multiple galleries in there.
Is there a way to do this now that I am not seeing or if not, how about it Smugmug?

[Andy]

Since I use my site or personal and professional use I wanted see if there is a way to make a private gallery.
The point would be to put my family pics taht I can share with my parents but keep that category hidden from the rest of the site so with clients come to the site, they only see what I want them to see.
I know there is a way to make a gallery private but the only way anyone can see that gallery is if they have the directly link I sent them once. Also if I send it only to "mom" and she wants someone else to check out those pictures, she has to know the exact link and gallery number. Why not make a category private, but once in you can go to the multiple galleries in there.
Is there a way to do this now that I am not seeing or how about it Smugmug?


i have 100+ years of family photographs scanned and uploaded into private galleries for perusal by my extended family (75+ folks)... they all get to the neatly organized galleries (arranged by decades) by use of a sharegroup (http://www.smugmug.com/help/share-groups).

hope this helps you :D

andy

[jc20]

Please add bulk download of individual galleries by zip file (similar to LinPHA or Gallery 2.0). Thanks!

[T4Tots]

I would love to know if there is a way to get an automatic email if someone orders from my site. And even better would be an automatic email that the order has shipped.

[colourbox]

Why not make a category private, but once in you can go to the multiple galleries in there.
Is there a way to do this now that I am not seeing or if not, how about it Smugmug?

Yup, make a sharegroup, e-mail the link, and tell her to bookmark it right away. After she bookmarks the sharegroup, she can open it as a web page in her browser at any time, and she'll see any new galleries you add to the sharegroup in the future.

[Cindy]

I would love to know if there is a way to get an automatic email if someone orders from my site. And even better would be an automatic email that the order has shipped.I second that whole heartedly :-)
And would add I'd love to get an e-mail when MY order ships along with the expected delievery date... not just simply one e-mail when it's processed and nothing more. The tracking usually doesn't work until the after the package has been delivered so it's of no help.

Thanks,

[gblotter]

Enhancement Request:

Example at: http://sheaf.smugmug.com/keyword/puppies

Please provide a configuration option so that I can force this to display as all-thumbs instead of smugmug default format.

[Techman1]

Hello all,

Is there a list somewhere that has all of the requests for enhancements listed (without having to read each page here & making it myself :huh )? If so, is there a priority associated with each request or does the Smugmug Support team determine the priority?

Thanks in advance.

Fred

[rutt]

I'd like to be able to set "page breaks" in my galleries. That is, I'd like to be able to tell smugmug to start a new gallery page after a particular picture, letting me have (for example) four shots on page 1 of the gallery and 3 shots on the next page. This would give me a way to group shots, sort of like in a photo album. Shots of the bride and groom on page 1, the bride's family on page 2, the groom's family on page 3. That sort of thing.

I asked on the "customization" forum, but Mike didn't know how to do it and suggested a feature request.

[Baldy]

Hello all,

Is there a list somewhere that has all of the requests for enhancements listed (without having to read each page here & making it myself :huh )? If so, is there a priority associated with each request or does the Smugmug Support team determine the priority?

Thanks in advance.

FredWe keep a list internal to smugmug that comes from a number of sources. Dgrin and the other photography forums are one source and we try to read every suggestion. A second is the help desk email we receive, which tends to include groups that wouldn't hang out on dgrin. And a third comes from new technologies that we aren't asked for but believe will have benefits.

One example is the programming technology called AJAX that enables you to quickly enter a caption by clicking an edit link next to the caption when you're logged in. That's been enormously popular but understandably no one asked for it because AJAX is new.

We do our own priority setting because we can judge things like how hard the programming is, whether we have the expertise, what customer groups benefit versus who it angers, etc.

We rarely talk about what we're working on because if something doesn't go as planned we spend too much time dousing forum flames.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Chris

[Techman1]

Chris,

Thank you for the reply and I fully appreciate & understand where you are coming from.

Now that I know that, I would once again like to put in a request for a different "watermarking" option on Smugmug. My hope would be that:

(1) we will be able to enter a watermark of our own choice (maybe our website).
(2) that we could have thumbnails & category photos without the watermark and only the larger viewable photos with it.
(3) possibly the ability to specify the location on the photos (this is the lowest on my list).

Again, I appreciate your reply and hope the watermark will get a higher priority if it isn't too complicated to code & implement! Thanks for listening & for your teams support!!!! :D

Fred

[Gary Glass]

I wish I could search the help docs.

I wish the help docs had a good index.

[Andy]

I wish I could search the help docs.

I wish the help docs had a good index.

Gary, that's great feedback, thanks so much for taking the time, it's really appreciated.

[Gary Glass]

I wish I could upload a custom CSS file to smugmug so I could reference it in my pages. As my custom styles become more complex, it makes sense to keep that code in a separate file (it's cacheable, etc.). I realize I can use an external stylesheet if I put it on another server, but it would be nice to be able to put it on my smugmug server.

[Andy]

I wish I could upload a custom CSS file to smugmug so I could reference it in my pages. As my custom styles become more complex, it makes sense to keep that code in a separate file (it's cacheable, etc.). I realize I can use an external stylesheet if I put it on another server, but it would be nice to be able to put it on my smugmug server.

gary, i just wanted to say that your site is *mint* what a great job on the cobranding! :bow :bow

i dig your photos, too - spent a while perusing your galleries!

thanks for the feedback and suggestion here.

[Gary Glass]

gary, i just wanted to say that your site is *mint* what a great job on the cobranding! :bow :bow

i dig your photos, too - spent a while perusing your galleries!
Hey, thanks! I'm just getting started on the site. And I've got a huge backlog of pix to put up!

[pat.kane]

I have found the shopping cart to be confusing with prints spread across three pick boxes.

One way to simplify this would be to only have two choices in the pick box:

1) prints and
2) photo gifts.

For this to be successful:

1) only list one of each print size and
2) have a separate pickbox to select gloss, matte and lustre.

I realize that lustre costs more. A few suggestions on how to handle this:

1) leverage the large print volume smugmug is passing to EZ Prints and negotiate a single price irregardless of finish (as a point of reference, Costco has one set price for each print size);

2) for a given value in the photo size pick box (e.g., 4x6 print) show the upcharge for lustre in the new photo finish pick box (e.g.,


gloss
matte
lustre +$0.04/ea
for 8x10 prints, you'd show "lustre +$0.49/ea", etc.; and

3) if #2 is too complicated, analyze prior order history between smugmug and EZ Prints and determine a flat rate percent increase for lustre and show that in the box, e.g., gloss / matte / lustre (add 10%).

Regards,
Pat

[Andy]

I have found the shopping cart to be confusing with prints spread across three pick boxes.

One way to simplify this would be to only have two choices in the pick box:

1) prints and
2) photo gifts.

For this to be successful:

1) only list one of each print size and
2) have a separate pickbox to select gloss, matte and lustre.

I realize that lustre costs more. A few suggestions on how to handle this:

1) leverage the large print volume smugmug is passing to EZ Prints and negotiate a single price irregardless of finish (as a point of reference, Costco has one set price for each print size);

2) for a given value in the photo size pick box (e.g., 4x6 print) show the upcharge for lustre in the new photo finish pick box (e.g.,


gloss
matte
lustre +$0.04/ea
for 8x10 prints, you'd show "lustre +$0.49/ea", etc.; and

3) if #2 is too complicated, analyze prior order history between smugmug and EZ Prints and determine a flat rate percent increase for lustre and show that in the box, e.g., gloss / matte / lustre (add 10%).

Regards,
Pat

hi pat - thanks for the very valuable feedback!

[Gary Glass]

I notice that the billing info screen doesn't require the credit card holder's name. I'm guessing this means that the credit card holder's name is assumed to be the same as the first name/last name entered on the account settings page. I think that the cardholder's name should be entered explicitly in the billing info. It is not uncommon to use a credit card with a different name than your own, or to use a different name publicly on the site than is on the card.

[Gary Glass]

2 bugs with photo captions containing embedded urls.

1. If I make an explicit link like this:

Visit <a href="http://mysite/mypage.htm">http://mysite/mypage.htm</a>.

it gets confused and everything else in the caption after "Visit" goes away. True, I can just leave off the <a> tag, and smugmug will add it automatically, but it shouldn't fail to parse that tag correctly if it is there.

2. If I remove the <a> tag and let smugmug add it, it deletes the space between "Visit" and "http:...". If I put 2 spaces between "Visit" and "http:..." then it preserves the space between them.

[Andy]

2 bugs with photo captions containing embedded urls.

1. If I make an explicit link like this:

Visit <a href="http://mysite/mypage.htm">http://mysite/mypage.htm</a>.

it gets confused and everything else in the caption after "Visit" goes away. True, I can just leave off the <a> tag, and smugmug will add it automatically, but it shouldn't fail to parse that tag correctly if it is there.

2. If I remove the <a> tag and let smugmug add it, it deletes the space between "Visit" and "http:...". If I put 2 spaces between "Visit" and "http:..." then it preserves the space between them.

try <HTML>your caption</HTML>

?

[Gary Glass]

I think it would be a nice feature if we could create "text oriented" pages. An "about me" page, would be a common example. I don't want it to be a gallery, I just want to put up a text page. True, I can create a gallery and add a photo to it, and use the photo caption to hold the text I want, but it's kind of a lot of rigamarole to go thru. Because I don't want the photo to be clickable, I don't want a slideshow, I don't want a pages navigator, etc. So I have to do a lot of stylesheet gymnastics to hide all that stuff just for that one page. Also, if I don't want a photo on that page at all, it gets worse! Seems like this would be a fairly easy one to implement and would be a great feature too.

[Andy]

2 bugs with photo captions containing embedded urls.

1. If I make an explicit link like this:

Visit <a href="http://mysite/mypage.htm">http://mysite/mypage.htm</a>.

it gets confused and everything else in the caption after "Visit" goes away. True, I can just leave off the <a> tag, and smugmug will add it automatically, but it shouldn't fail to parse that tag correctly if it is there.

2. If I remove the <a> tag and let smugmug add it, it deletes the space between "Visit" and "http:...". If I put 2 spaces between "Visit" and "http:..." then it preserves the space between them.

your answers are in the smugmug blogs... (http://blogs.smugmug.com/web-tricks/2005/09/02/using-html-in-your-bio-caption-or-description/)

[Andy]

snip



Also, if I don't want a photo on that page at all, it gets worse! Seems like this would be a fairly easy one to implement and would be a great feature too.


gary, the dgrin search tool is your friend (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=6314)

[Gary Glass]

gary, the dgrin search tool is your friend (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=6314)
Thanks! I should have known. There is lots of documentation, tips & tricks, etc. A really good documentation index would be nice! Wait, should I search for that too? :wink

[DmitryS]

One example is the programming technology called AJAX that enables you to quickly enter a caption by clicking an edit link next to the caption when you're logged in. That's been enormously popular but understandably no one asked for it because AJAX is new.
Just a small comment since you mentioned this new function.
If I click "edit" button and add a comment or rename gallery using not-english characters (russian in my case) they don't show up correctly when encoding in browser is set to Western (that is a setting for most users). However, if I go Customize and add Title and Description on the Customize screen, everything shows up perfectly.
Not a big deal, just my to cents about this new feature.

[Gary Glass]

BUG: I uploaded 56 pix into a new gallery. I turned on watermarks on everything in the gallery, decided I didn't like it (because the "proof" was not transparent enough for my tastes) and turned it off again, and now I see that all my custom thumbnails have been blown away. And I also see that all my images have a new margin. Screenshot:

http://www.mccull.org/gary/scratch/Image1.gif

Now I'm going to have to reupload all 56 pix again and redo all the thumbs. This is a drag.

ENHANCE: Please, please, please, improve the thumbnail customization process! I've figured out a process that reduces the total amount of clicking back and forth, but it is still a very unnecessairly awkward process. Gimme a way to do this in bulk, as with keywords and positioning. I shouldn't have to work this hard.

[StevenV]

I have found the shopping cart to be confusing with prints spread across three pick boxes.

One way to simplify this would be to only have two choices in the pick box:

1) prints and
2) photo gifts.



AMEN!


(oh, can I say that here? http://svore.home.mindspring.com/icon_pirate.gif )


I completely agree that most customers wouldn't know the difference between a standard print, a specialty print and a print for small cameras. And besides, they're not printing for small a small camera anyway. http://dgrin.com/images/smilies/xzicon_smile_cool.gif

[Gary Glass]

I agree too. It's not a very elegant storefront. Simplify the categories.

I would also suggest getting rid of the dropdowns altogether and replacing with something more attractive, like buttons. Interlinked dropdowns should be avoided where possible.

[{JT}]

I don't get the use of buttons for the product choices, could you elaborate?


I agree too. It's not a very elegant storefront. Simplify the categories.

I would also suggest getting rid of the dropdowns altogether and replacing with something more attractive, like buttons. Interlinked dropdowns should be avoided where possible.

[StevenV]

It's not perfect, but here's what another printing service does.

This is an upload-and-print service, so once you've uploaded your images then you get the option of types of thins to produce

http://img336.imageshack.us/img336/713/ritzpix19ys.gif

then if you chose prints, you get these options for size

http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/5768/ritzpix24kp.gif

[{JT}]

I will think about it, but I don't think it will fly with the site. We'd intriduce potentially thousands of steps and customers would not be happy with that.

[Gary Glass]

I don't get the use of buttons for the product choices, could you elaborate?
I was just throwing out alternatives. So now that I've opened my mouth about it, let me answer in more detail. "buttons" may not work, but my real point is that interlinked dropdowns are not a great interface choice in most cases. If I were designing this storefront I'd look for an alternative. Maybe there isn't a better one, but it's worth a hard look. So here's a screen shot to take a talk about:

http://mccull.org/gary/scratch/storefront.gif

Comments:


Too many gridlines. The screen looks disorganized. This is partly due to the various controls not being laid out on a few major gridlines. Buttons are scattered hither and yon. It's not obvious at a glance how they relate to each other.
As noted by others, there are two many items in the 1st product dropdown, and it's none too clear to ordinary mortals what they are. -- "Prints for small cameras"? The buyer should know the photographer was using a small camera?
There's a tiny little line between the crop controls & the color controls. It's so tiny it's confusing as to why it's there. If it's meant to separate these two controls logically, then that should be much more obvious.
The "delete" button is directly below the "crop" control. Why's that? Are we deleting the crop? Or deleting the item from the shopping cart? Etc. The controls are actually being laid out all in a line, and just wrapping wherever. Thus the layout of the controls doesn't provide much in the way of visual cues to the user as to how the shopping cart / product selection process is supposed to work.
If it was me, here's what I'd look at doing:

Just as it is now, one row for each item, thumbnail on the left, but on the right show the crop and the selected product type, color type choice, & quantity textbox.
Also have the "delete" and "duplicate" buttons here, but make them links: call "delete", "Remove from shopping cart"; call "duplicate", "Buy this item in additional formats" (or something along those lines).
The product type, color, and crop are just informational on this screen. To modify them click a link that says "Modify this choice" (or something along those lines).
Clicking that link would open a modal dialog where the user can modify the cropping of the image, color choice, and the product type choice. (Can allow quantity changes here as well.) Several reasons why you'd want to do it this way:

The crop/color/product-choice controls clutter the shopping cart. You want it to be clear and simple.
It clearly separates selecting items from customizing the choice.
It makes a logical separation between two different kinds of actions that can be taken on a product: (1) adding / removing / quantifying; (2) detailing specifications (color / crop / format).

In that dialog, list the various formats all together, in a radiolist format, separated into two groups, as suggested by previous poster (Photos/Gift, Photos/Specialty Items, something like that).

Well, that's just a start. But I've rattled along quite a bit now.

[StevenV]

re: the screenshots from RitzPixI will think about it, but I don't think it will fly with the site. We'd intriduce potentially thousands of steps and customers would not be happy with that.
True, I was just putting it out there for comparison. I do like their checkboxes - well guess I would if I every bought more than one size at a time (which I don't but perhaps you have data showing if many people do)

[Gary Glass]

BUG: I uploaded 56 pix into a new gallery. I turned on watermarks on everything in the gallery, decided I didn't like it (because the "proof" was not transparent enough for my tastes) and turned it off again, and now I see that all my custom thumbnails have been blown away. And I also see that all my images have a new margin.
New margin problem resolved! Turned out to be an issue with how right-click protection interacts with CSS. Thanks to the support team for figuring that one out.

As for the thumbs being blown away? Do over!

[{JT}]

Yeah, I had not checked the cart with IE in a while, the buttons should all be aligned with eachother on the second line. That will be fixed soon. As for your other comments, I will seriously think about them and how they affect the cart. But, just so you know, we get far more praise for our cart being streamlined and efficient as compared to other photo site carts, than it being confusing. It is true we get questions from time to time, but over all it has been a success.

I was just throwing out alternatives. So now that I've opened my mouth about it, let me answer in more detail. "buttons" may not work, but my real point is that interlinked dropdowns are not a great interface choice in most cases. If I were designing this storefront I'd look for an alternative. Maybe there isn't a better one, but it's worth a hard look. So here's a screen shot to take a talk about:

[Gary Glass]

Yeah, I had not checked the cart with IE in a while, the buttons should all be aligned with eachother on the second line. That will be fixed soon.
My screenshot was from Firefox. IE loooks about the same tho.

[StevenV]

Back to the shopping cart for a moment, if I may. This isn't by any means intended to be complete, but food for thought...

Perhaps you could figure out what the most popular sizes are and show 'em as options right there, no drop-down lists, and provide buttons (perhaps with icons of coffee mugs or something) to get 'em to the less-often-purchased items?

The choices shown below just happen to be the ones that RitzPix shows; SmugMug's would of course be different. This is jut a cut/paste mockup job to give you the idea.

It would mean a longer page, since the section for each image would potentially be larger.

other SmugMug users, Compare the first & second image selection areas; do you think the first one would would make more or less sense to your customers than the drop-downs in the second one?


http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/8039/smugmugcart3mv.jpg


warning: this post is likely worth less than the $.02 you paid for it http://svore.home.mindspring.com/icon_pirate.gif

[Gary Glass]

Back to the shopping cart for a moment, if I may. This isn't by any means intended to be complete, but food for thought...
I like it. It's similar to what I was proposing above. I would put that list into a separate dialog box though, rather than replicate it for every item in the shopping cart. What the buyer is doing is:

1. select a photo
2. select a format
3. customize colors, cropping, etc.
4. select a quantity
5. submit

because nos. 2 & 3 are complex and variable, it makes sense to break them out into a side-process, i.e., a separate dialog.

[{JT}]

Not only would each section be longer, we'd have to provide a crop preview for each of those choices.

Back to the shopping cart for a moment, if I may. This isn't by any means intended to be complete, but food for thought...

Perhaps you could figure out what the most popular sizes are and show 'em as options right there, no drop-down lists, and provide buttons (perhaps with icons of coffee mugs or something) to get 'em to the less-often-purchased items?

The choices shown below just happen to be the ones that RitzPix shows; SmugMug's would of course be different. This is jut a cut/paste mockup job to give you the idea.

It would mean a longer page, since the section for each image would potentially be larger.

other SmugMug users, Compare the first & second image selection areas; do you think the first one would would make more or less sense to your customers than the drop-downs in the second one?

warning: this post is likely worth less than the $.02 you paid for it http://svore.home.mindspring.com/icon_pirate.gif

[Gary Glass]

Not only would each section be longer, we'd have to provide a crop preview for each of those choices.
But, see my response:

I would put that list into a separate dialog box though, rather than replicate it for every item in the shopping cart... it makes sense to break them out into a side-process, i.e., a separate dialog.

[PHOTOlink]

opaqueness, transparancy, style, our own logo, placement of watermark...

[jcdill]

When I have 4 galleries featured, and have a new one that I want to put in the #1 spot (bumping all the others down a spot and pushing #4 off the featured gallery list), it takes the following number of steps:

1) From the gallery, select "feature gallery".
2) Select spot #1
3) Click "update"
4) Find and open the former #1 gallery
5) Select "feature gallery"
6) Select #2 spot
7) Click "update"
8) Find and open former #2 gallery
9) Select "feature gallery"
10) Select #3 spot
11) Click "update"
12) Find and open former #3 gallery
13) Select "feature gallery"
14) Select #4 spot
15) Click "update"

That's a LOT of steps. It could be reduced to just 3 steps if you added an option to "set as #1 and bump all other featured galleries down 1 spot".

[rainforest1155]

I don't think that bumping down would work for all. I only change number 1 and 2 and keep 3+4 always the same. I guess other do it another way.

You could optimise your system by beginning at the end:
1. click on the 3rd one - feature gallery and select #4
2. click on 2nd - feature gallery and select #3
3. click on 1st - feat. gal and select #2
4. search for new 1st - feat. gal and select #1

Maybe this works for you.

Sebastian

[Andy]

thanks for the input, it's really appreciated. i'm moving this to the features request thread, thanks.

[jcdill]

I don't think that bumping down would work for all. I don't either. I didn't suggest removing the current options, I suggested adding a NEW option.


You could optimise your system by beginning at the end:
1. click on the 3rd one - feature gallery and select #4
2. click on 2nd - feature gallery and select #3
3. click on 1st - feat. gal and select #2
4. search for new 1st - feat. gal and select #1
It's still 3 clicks for each gallery to change to the gallery, change to select a different position, and select, so it's just as many clicks to move them all down one. A computer can do this automagically. That's what computers do best.

jc

[bigwebguy]

http://dgrin.com/images/smilies/15524779-Ti.gif

something that has bugged me for a long time.

When I have 4 galleries featured, and have a new one that I want to put in the #1 spot (bumping all the others down a spot and pushing #4 off the featured gallery list), it takes the following number of steps:

1) From the gallery, select "feature gallery".
2) Select spot #1
3) Click "update"
4) Find and open the former #1 gallery
5) Select "feature gallery"
6) Select #2 spot
7) Click "update"
8) Find and open former #2 gallery
9) Select "feature gallery"
10) Select #3 spot
11) Click "update"
12) Find and open former #3 gallery
13) Select "feature gallery"
14) Select #4 spot
15) Click "update"

That's a LOT of steps. It could be reduced to just 3 steps if you added an option to "set as #1 and bump all other featured galleries down 1 spot".

[jcdill]

http://dgrin.com/images/smilies/15524779-Ti.gif

something that has bugged me for a long time. I realized after posting that an even better solution would be to add a radio button for "bump" or "replace" after you select which spot you want to feature this gallery. It would allow you to set the new gallery to spot 2 and bump 2 to 3, 3 to 4, etc.

[dmc]

I hope my suggestion doesn't get lost in this HUGE forum topic, but here it is...

Suggestion:
let me choose the size of pics displayed, and how many pics per page, in the Journal view. :thumb

The Journal view is good, but the pics are too small.

[Andy]

I hope my suggestion doesn't get lost in this HUGE forum topic, but here it is...

Suggestion:
let me choose the size of pics displayed, and how many pics per page, in the Journal view. :thumb

The Journal view is good, but the pics are too small.

:wave hiya dmc and welcome to the forum :D thanks so much for your suggestion - i can assure you that even though this thread is long, that every single suggestion, request, and bug report gets the full attention of the smugmug team.

[tourist]

Any chance of adding the ability to search/browse images by camera and/or lens type?

[Andy]

Any chance of adding the ability to search/browse images by camera and/or lens type?



:wave hiya tourist. this has been asked before, thanks :D i'm moving this to the features request thread.

[jfriend]

There appears to be some sort of coding error when you try to apply a template to more than one gallery. Here's how to reproduce.

1) Create a gallery template
2) Go to "Customize Gallery"
3) Click on "Bulk Settings"
4) Select a few galleries
5) Click on a few galleries
6) Select the template you created
7) Click on the apply button
8) You get an alert that says:

"jfriend.smugmug.comhttp could not be found. Please check the name and try again."

If you believe this error message, it looks like some URL building code is getting the "http" on the end of the URL instead of the front of the URL.

--John

[Andy]

There appears to be some sort of coding error when you try to apply a template to more than one gallery. Here's how to reproduce.

1) Create a gallery template
2) Go to "Customize Gallery"
3) Click on "Bulk Settings"
4) Select a few galleries
5) Click on a few galleries
6) Select the template you created
7) Click on the apply button
8) You get an alert that says:

"jfriend.smugmug.comhttp could not be found. Please check the name and try again."

If you believe this error message, it looks like some URL building code is getting the "http" on the end of the URL instead of the front of the URL.

--John


thank you, merged to the bug report thread.

[pat.kane]

I noticed the well designed site and beautiful imagery at pristine-light.com after browsing the "Smugmug Site of the Week!" thread last week.

One of the items I really liked and didn't even realize was possible is the ability to zoom in on thumbnails. It's a great feature but right now takes a lot of time to use as you have to do it photo by photo. I'd like to add to the list of requests to make this tool available in batch mode.

Here's another thread with ideas on improving the tool:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=19458&highlight=zoom

Thanks,
Pat

[hutch]

The Zoom Thumnail feature is great. I do agree though that we need some type of bulk function for this. It can be rather tedious to do this on one gallery. I understand the limitation of 'where to crop', but possibly having the option of simply a center 1x1 crop would be good for many situations. With the option of individually modifying specific ones?


I noticed the well designed site and beautiful imagery at pristine-light.com after browsing the "Smugmug Site of the Week!" thread last week.

One of the items I really liked and didn't even realize was possible is the ability to zoom in on thumbnails. It's a great feature but right now takes a lot of time to use as you have to do it photo by photo. I'd like to add to the list of requests to make this tool available in batch mode.

Here's another thread with ideas on improving the tool:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=19458&highlight=zoom

Thanks,
Pat

[Cindy]

I just went to order a huge order for customers who need several of lots of prints. Many are very similar and you cant see the difference by looking at the thumbnails. Others I'm just going down the order form by filename and entering the quanity & sizes as they have listed however I don't even see thumbnails on my order form so I REALLY need the filename displayed to enter these fields while comparing to my forms.

Is there some reason why they don't display? Is there a way to force the filenames to display that I'm missing? Can we possibly have a fix on this REALLY SOON???

I've noticed in the past that the filenumbers also don't show up on my invoice... this is like an item # so I really, really think it should be there... exspecailly in case the order should somehow get messed up... then we have actual filenumbers to compare to.

Thanks,
Cindy

[clenny]

Will smugmug ever plan to allow photographer-controlled crops? I want more control over the final product than just letting the user crop it. We wouldn't even have to define the crop for each size just for each ratio.

[pecheney]

Out of curiosity, is there a forum on here for prebuilty Themes submitted by SM users? Sorry to sound lazy, but I just started playing with the Sand theme to see how my photos look in a different setup. Yikes, very cool. But I am looking for somethinga tad different and was curious if anybody else had some themes uploaded to dgrin that we coulc copy and paste. Kind of like skins for a vBulletin... make sense?

I am willing to pay a little if it is what I am looking for. Offshoots of open source! :clap

PEC

PS: this vBulletin is very well dialed in. Just my two cents. Kudos.

[Mike Lane]

Out of curiosity, is there a forum on here for prebuilty Themes submitted by SM users? Sorry to sound lazy, but I just started playing with the Sand theme to see how my photos look in a different setup. Yikes, very cool. But I am looking for somethinga tad different and was curious if anybody else had some themes uploaded to dgrin that we coulc copy and paste. Kind of like skins for a vBulletin... make sense?

I am willing to pay a little if it is what I am looking for. Offshoots of open source! :clap

PEC

PS: this vBulletin is very well dialed in. Just my two cents. Kudos.
You mean like this (http://www.dgrin.com/forumdisplay.php?f=31)?

[fridgesm]

I'm trying out smugmug, and I'm having a huge problem with the galleries. I can navigate around the control panel, main page, etc just fine. But if I click on a gallery, it reverts back to www.smugmug.com. The link to the gallery does not have that, but after you click it, you end up at www.smugmug.com/gallery/###### instead of mydomain.smugmug.com/gallery/######. Do I have something set up wrong, or is that a bug in smugmug?

[{JT}]

How about an actual link to the affected gallery? Do you happen to have hide gallery owner turned on?

I'm trying out smugmug, and I'm having a huge problem with the galleries. I can navigate around the control panel, main page, etc just fine. But if I click on a gallery, it reverts back to www.smugmug.com. The link to the gallery does not have that, but after you click it, you end up at www.smugmug.com/gallery/###### instead of mydomain.smugmug.com/gallery/######. Do I have something set up wrong, or is that a bug in smugmug?

[StevenV]

The bulk settings screen (when it's working, and I know about the current http://site.smugmug.comhttp//site.smugmug.com/gallery/settings.mg fix awaiting rollout) is helpful and good.

It might be even better if the galleries were sorted by category (and sub, I suppose). As it is, it's hunt-and-peck through and hope you found all the right ones.

thanks for considering.

[Andy]

The bulk settings screen (when it's working, and I know about the current http://site.smugmug.comhttp//site.smugmug.com/gallery/settings.mg fix awaiting rollout) is helpful and good.

It might be even better if the galleries were sorted by category (and sub, I suppose). As it is, it's hunt-and-peck through and hope you found all the right ones.

thanks for considering.

moved to the features request thread.

[Andy]

Will smugmug ever plan to allow photographer-controlled crops? I want more control over the final product than just letting the user crop it. We wouldn't even have to define the crop for each size just for each ratio.


hi clenny, thanks for the feedback - it's very valuable. i moved your post to the suggestions thread here.

[Blurmore]

I may be in the minority here, but I shoot film for some of my family pictures. I also like to keep chronological order for my boys' galleries. That is easy enough with arrange photos by date taken, BUT it arranges all of the photos, so theones shot on film, lacking exif get thrown down at the bottom. What I would propose is the ability to arrange 'selected' photos by date taken, leaving the scanned pics where I put them.

[Andy]

I may be in the minority here, but I shoot film for some of my family pictures. I also like to keep chronological order for my boys' galleries. That is easy enough with arrange photos by date taken, BUT it arranges all of the photos, so theones shot on film, lacking exif get thrown down at the bottom. What I would propose is the ability to arrange 'selected' photos by date taken, leaving the scanned pics where I put them.

thanks for your suggestion, don't know if it's possible, but i've moved to the proper thread for you so that the engineers can see it :thumb

[jfriend]

I may be in the minority here, but I shoot film for some of my family pictures. I also like to keep chronological order for my boys' galleries. That is easy enough with arrange photos by date taken, BUT it arranges all of the photos, so theones shot on film, lacking exif get thrown down at the bottom. What I would propose is the ability to arrange 'selected' photos by date taken, leaving the scanned pics where I put them. Another possibility would be to tag the scanned photos with an appropriate date before you upload them to Smugmug and then you might be able to use the existing features.

[jfriend]

In the co-brand editing page, can we please have the edit boxes wider than they are now? There's a ton of width available in the page and it's a whole lot easier to see what's in those edit boxes if it doesn't wrap artificially because it's too narrow. I'd like to see 120 columns of width. Right now, we only have 53 chars of width (Firefox on windows) which guarantees that lots of lines will wrap prematurely and be hard to read.

[rainforest1155]

I often give gallery links to a specific image to people instead of direct links, because I want them to be tracked. If I move a picture to another gallery and one uses the old gallery link, the picture will be still displayed, but like it's still in the old gallery and instead of the real first picture of the gallery. This could create a lot of confusion if the person navigates to the next picture and then back - there's another picture instead of the linked one.
I would like to have a forward to the new gallery or at least state somehow that the picture was moved to another gallery and then present the link to it.

I mentioned this a long time ago and at this time the image wasn't displayed at all - so already some improvement. Just one step further and it's perfect! :wink

Thanks,
Sebastian

[Andy]

I often give gallery links to a specific image to people instead of direct links, because I want them to be tracked. If I move a picture to another gallery and one uses the old gallery link, the picture will be still displayed, but like it's still in the old gallery and instead of the real first picture of the gallery. This could create a lot of confusion if the person navigates to the next picture and then back - there's another picture instead of the linked one.
I would like to have a forward to the new gallery or at least state somehow that the picture was moved to another gallery and then present the link to it.

I mentioned this a long time ago and at this time the image wasn't displayed at all - so already some improvement. Just one step further and it's perfect! :wink

Thanks,
Sebastian

thanks for the suggestion, rainforest ... moved to the requests thread...

[jfriend]

I often give gallery links to a specific image to people instead of direct links, because I want them to be tracked. If I move a picture to another gallery and one uses the old gallery link, the picture will be still displayed, but like it's still in the old gallery and instead of the real first picture of the gallery. This could create a lot of confusion if the person navigates to the next picture and then back - there's another picture instead of the linked one.
I would like to have a forward to the new gallery or at least state somehow that the picture was moved to another gallery and then present the link to it.

I mentioned this a long time ago and at this time the image wasn't displayed at all - so already some improvement. Just one step further and it's perfect! :wink

Thanks,
Sebastian It may be more trouble than it's worth to you, but it's possible to do this with JavaScript.

I wrote about vanity URLs in this message (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=176753&postcount=12) to solve a similar problem. In my case, I had given out URLs to categories (which have the category name in them), but I wanted to rearrange my site some and thus rename some of the categories, but still preserve the original category URLs so users following the links from old emails would still land in the right place. To do so, I wrote JavaScript in my site that would sniff for the original URL and then automatically forward the user to the new URL. I made the JavaScript so that it was only active on my homepage, not other pages on my site, but you could generalize it to do what you wanted too for individual images. Then, you'd just have to make a table entry in the script each time you wanted to add an URL for automatic forwarding.

[Mike Lane]

In the co-brand editing page, can we please have the edit boxes wider than they are now? There's a ton of width available in the page and it's a whole lot easier to see what's in those edit boxes if it doesn't wrap artificially because it's too narrow. I'd like to see 120 columns of width. Right now, we only have 53 chars of width (Firefox on windows) which guarantees that lots of lines will wrap prematurely and be hard to read.

I second this. I would definitely like to have more room when I go to edit