Phase 2 - New style preview

***onethumb*** · Aug-15-2005, 12:20 PM

Howdy!

We've got a bunch of new things up our sleeves and all hands are on deck over here at smugmug HQ as we test them. We're hoping to get all the cool stuff out tonight, but we need your help!

Here's a preview of the new Elegant style (renamed to 'smugmug'), with massive CSS customizability:

I'm not gonna go into all the new features on this new Style (gotta leave you some surprises and easter eggs!), but the important and immediate ones are:

- easier to buy photos since the buy and cart buttons are front and center, obvious!

- *far* easier to customize the entire page, since all elements on the page have their own CSS tags so you can fine-tune every little option, not just font colors and sizes for the entire page (which, of course, you can still do).

- easier-to-read details below the photos

- cleaner interface

So, the big question is, is there anything we're missing? Is something not right? Let us know, quick!

Don

pumpkin · Aug-15-2005, 01:59 PM

it looks awesome! can't wait :)

DJ-S1 · Aug-15-2005, 02:07 PM

Looks great! Is the "more photo details" link still there somewhere? I use that a lot.

Mike Lane · Aug-15-2005, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ-S1

Looks great! Is the "more photo details" link still there somewhere? I use that a lot.

Gah! I wish it weren't filtered at work.

cjohn · Aug-15-2005, 02:14 PM

Don,

The page looks FANTASTIC!

I agree with the previous post about more photo details, will it still be there? It would also be nice to be able to select WHAT detail you want to show in every gallery, and not to have to do it via the EXIF data.

One thing that always bothered me is that the "Gallery Pages" buttons to switch to a different page are not very conspicuous. I'm always worried that people will not notice it and will assume that what they see on the page is all there is. I could live with more obvious clues that clicking on a button would bring you to a second page in this gallery....

Cédric

Mac Write · Aug-15-2005, 02:19 PM

Can you put a demo on-line (static html pages) so we can go over it and make suggestions? Then we can catch all the stuff before it goes live (suggestion you need a testing server so we can see stuff before it goes live on the live sites to find all the bugs).

pumpkin · Aug-15-2005, 02:30 PM

what's that google earth feed at the bottom? :P

JamesJWeg · Aug-15-2005, 02:43 PM

Honestly I am quite pissed right now, I was walking out the door to be gone for the evening and have just over the last few days taken steps to get some traffic to my site, as in tonight/tom, and boom, a few hours warning

. damn, can't we have a day at least? So am sitting here late for supper trying to figure out what my site will look like tom, and I can't really tell from what you are saying what will actually change. FWIW, these neon type colors you have started using look like 100% junk to me, I do not like them in the least, put bluntly I have used many curse words over them. The classy look and feel of SM had a lot to do with me opening my account and the resent trend is completly away from that. The fact that you put the feeds on the page in a hidious color with no warning was almost enough for me to close my account, had I known ahead of time that it would occur AND how to turn it off I would not have really cared. I understand the need/benifits of the technical changes, what I do not understand is forcing color etc changes on us. I and I do not understand at all why you continue to give us little warning of these large changes in apperance. To me that screen shot you posted looks like total crap, and I do not want a site that looks at all like that.

James.

sberley · Aug-15-2005, 02:46 PM

Does this mean people can purchased framed pictures from the cart? If not, I'd be very hesitant to set an expectation I wouldn't be able to follow through on...

Steve

Ben · Aug-15-2005, 02:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJ-S1

Looks great! Is the "more photo details" link still there somewhere? I use that a lot.

yes, it will be. That photo was just a -L.jpg I had taken from submissions on Dgrin and so it didn't have any embedded exif data. It will appear in there, looking very much like the other information under the photo.

Aug-15-2005, 12:20 PM	#1
*onethumb* SmugMug CEO & Chief Geek Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Silicon Valley, CA Posts: 1,194	Phase 2 - New style preview Howdy! We've got a bunch of new things up our sleeves and all hands are on deck over here at smugmug HQ as we test them. We're hoping to get all the cool stuff out tonight, but we need your help! Here's a preview of the new Elegant style (renamed to 'smugmug'), with massive CSS customizability: I'm not gonna go into all the new features on this new Style (gotta leave you some surprises and easter eggs!), but the important and immediate ones are: - easier to buy photos since the buy and cart buttons are front and center, obvious! - far easier to customize the entire page, since all elements on the page have their own CSS tags so you can fine-tune every little option, not just font colors and sizes for the entire page (which, of course, you can still do). - easier-to-read details below the photos - cleaner interface So, the big question is, is there anything we're missing? Is something not right? Let us know, quick! Don

Aug-15-2005, 02:14 PM	#5
cjohn pristine-light.com Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Santa Cruz Posts: 23	Great Don, The page looks FANTASTIC! I agree with the previous post about more photo details, will it still be there? It would also be nice to be able to select WHAT detail you want to show in every gallery, and not to have to do it via the EXIF data. One thing that always bothered me is that the "Gallery Pages" buttons to switch to a different page are not very conspicuous. I'm always worried that people will not notice it and will assume that what they see on the page is all there is. I could live with more obvious clues that clicking on a button would bring you to a second page in this gallery.... Cédric

Aug-15-2005, 02:43 PM	#8
JamesJWeg Major grins Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 790	Honestly I am quite pissed right now, I was walking out the door to be gone for the evening and have just over the last few days taken steps to get some traffic to my site, as in tonight/tom, and boom, a few hours warning. damn, can't we have a day at least? So am sitting here late for supper trying to figure out what my site will look like tom, and I can't really tell from what you are saying what will actually change. FWIW, these neon type colors you have started using look like 100% junk to me, I do not like them in the least, put bluntly I have used many curse words over them. The classy look and feel of SM had a lot to do with me opening my account and the resent trend is completly away from that. The fact that you put the feeds on the page in a hidious color with no warning was almost enough for me to close my account, had I known ahead of time that it would occur AND how to turn it off I would not have really cared. I understand the need/benifits of the technical changes, what I do not understand is forcing color etc changes on us. I and I do not understand at all why you continue to give us little warning of these large changes in apperance. To me that screen shot you posted looks like total crap, and I do not want a site that looks at all like that. James. __________________ http://pics.jamesjweg.com http://www.jamesjweg.com

Aug-15-2005, 02:46 PM	#9
sberley Big grins Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 26	is picture framing now available? Does this mean people can purchased framed pictures from the cart? If not, I'd be very hesitant to set an expectation I wouldn't be able to follow through on... Steve

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Aug-15-2005, 01:59 PM	#2
pumpkin Big grins Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Rome, Italy (or NH) Posts: 25	it looks awesome! can't wait :)

Aug-15-2005, 02:07 PM	#3
DJ-S1 Life is good! Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Newport, RI, USA Posts: 2,298	Looks great! Is the "more photo details" link still there somewhere? I use that a lot.

Aug-15-2005, 02:30 PM	#7
pumpkin Big grins Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Rome, Italy (or NH) Posts: 25	what's that google earth feed at the bottom? :P