Heads-up: SmugMug's buttons are changing

[Baldy]

I hope you can forgive my only cross-post, but this seems like it could be very important to people who've customized some of our buttons.

We've been working on new buttons for buying prints and checking your cart. Instead of using PNGs like before, we are using YUI-based buttons. In order to get them to match exactly our PNG-based buttons in all browsers, we made all the buttons on the gallery pages YUI-based:



Here are the versions for light backgrounds:



We've also made versions for the existing themes:



Here are some customizations you can do:

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/Smug...September+2008

Timing: We posted the thread in support way back in June and the going was slow, but lately we've made great progress. I don't have an exact date for when these new buttons will ship, but we might be very close depending on how testing goes and the feedback we get from these threads.

I had understood that the number of people who've customized our existing buttons was very low. Are we mistaken about that?

Thanks!
Baldy

UPDATED PSD:

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/SmugMug/Buttons

[Andy]

If you use one of our themes, any of them, as a base, you'll have to do nothing.

If you use any CSS to hide buttons, like

.share_button {display: none;}

for example, you'll have to do nothing

[RogersDA]

Originally Posted by Andy

If you use one of our themes, any of them, as a base, you'll have to do nothing.

If you use any CSS to hide buttons, like

.share_button {display: none;}

for example, you'll have to do nothing

Will we be able to relocate the buttons to the positions of our choice? Would it be possible to integrate the YUI buttons in a user's dropdown menu in lieu of having them displayed where their default location is?

[Andy]

They're live.

[hyachts]

Originally Posted by Andy

They're live.

Me likey.

[Erick L]

Ugly. How do I get text links like before? Thanks.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Erick L

Ugly. How do I get text links like before? Thanks.

Hi Erick, I'm sorry you feel this way :( We've done a lot of research on this, and solicited a lot of input on it from our customers. The buy button is more prominent and folks won't miss it. They can be customized, but you can't get text links like before, I'm really sorry.

Links to psd file and button css here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=931213#post931213
holler if we can help!

[RogersDA]

Did this impact the slideshow in any way? That has stopped working just now.

[savannahga]

Originally Posted by Andy

Hi Erick, I'm sorry you feel this way :( We've done a lot of research on this, and solicited a lot of input on it from our customers. The buy button is more prominent and folks won't miss it. They can be customized, but you can't get text links like before, I'm really sorry.

Links to psd file and button css here: http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=931213#post931213
holler if we can help!

Andy, is that the right link you gave?

[Barb]

Originally Posted by savannahga

Andy, is that the right link you gave?

Here ya go - this one is better :)

http://wiki.smugmug.net/display/Smug...September+2008

[Barb]

Originally Posted by RogersDA

Did this impact the slideshow in any way? That has stopped working just now.

Hi :)

We're looking into this. Something's up with custom domains and the homepage slideshow. Sorry bout that :(

[RogersDA]

Originally Posted by Barb

Hi :)

We're looking into this. Something's up with custom domains and the homepage slideshow. Sorry bout that :(

Coolness.

[J Allen]

I've made custom buttons for the "play slideshow" button....with the update of the buttons, mine are not looking right anymore, can I get around this or should I get rid of my customization and just stick with Smug's design.




Here's a link to one of my galleries: http://www.joerallen.com/gallery/590...68692339_kH624

[RogersDA]

One more item: Do we just change the glyph psd file (colors, for example) and upload that as a jpg or png to our gallery of choice? Does the YUI-based buttons "read" the file coordinates for choosing the right button image to use?

Obviously we would need to update the path url for the background-image for the new glyph.

[Andy]

[Andy]

Originally Posted by family guy

I've made custom buttons for the "play slideshow" button....with the update of the buttons, mine are not looking right anymore, can I get around this or should I get rid of my customization and just stick with Smug's design.

Yeah use the psd in our first post of this thread and customize to your liking.

[Allen]

Originally Posted by Andy

Yeah use the psd in our first post of this thread and customize to your liking.

You're assuming everyone has PS.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Allen

You're assuming everyone has PS.

I'm sorry Allen, if one is customizing websites, then yeah, Photoshop is, in my mind, a requirement. I'm talking about making detailed small art like buttons, yeah :)

[savannahga]

Can we make the buttons larger? If so, how?

[Andy]

Originally Posted by savannahga

Can we make the buttons larger? If so, how?

No, I'm sorry. They're pretty big now :)