SmugMug Feature Requests #6

Andy

Nikolai wrote:

Does it make sense to anybodybut me?

Nik, we understand you. For the time being, you can put them in a private gallery and email a link, and the "giftee" can download them.

We appreciate your suggestion - as always - it's great to hear it straight from our customers. This is the first I've heard of this one, so we'll see what sort of traction it gets!

All the best,

itchyfeet

Blogs?
Hi

I have an online diary which I have linked to my Smugmug site. The thing is, I spend LOTS of time trying to make the diary/blog site to look EXACTLY like my smugmug page (because I want it to be integrated).

However, is there ANY chance that SMUGMUG will feature a blog page? I am not looking for anything glamourous at all. Just something that features a date entry, and text.

Thanks
Ellliot

Andy

itchyfeet wrote:

Hi

I have an online diary which I have linked to my Smugmug site. The thing is, I spend LOTS of time trying to make the diary/blog site to look EXACTLY like my smugmug page (because I want it to be integrated).

However, is there ANY chance that SMUGMUG will feature a blog page? I am not looking for anything glamourous at all. Just something that features a date entry, and text.

Thanks
Ellliot

Thanks for taking the time to make the suggestion, Elliot

Fine Bottled Water

Posting this again:


I use the journal style on my site, 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 as an example.

Thanks!

rainforest1155

Fine Bottled Water wrote:

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 as an example.

I like ideas promoting the comment function. I've made some requests myself in this field. Really like your sample picture. Looks very good and stylish, too. Can we have this??

Thanks,
Sebastian

jrykowski

pro feature - matrix of pricing across galleries
This would be a nice feature to make it easy to verify pricing is correct across all galleries. Especially useful when changing pricing dependent on gallery (it happens - especially for event photographer with pricing different for each event).

I imagine a long CSV dump perhaps? It'd optionally list each gallery across top, and each item down rows (or option to pivot so galleries list down rows and items across columns).

Andy

jrykowski wrote:

This would be a nice feature to make it easy to verify pricing is correct across all galleries. Especially useful when changing pricing dependent on gallery (it happens - especially for event photographer with pricing different for each event).

I imagine a long CSV dump perhaps? It'd optionally list each gallery across top, and each item down rows (or option to pivot so galleries list down rows and items across columns).

Thanks for the suggestion, jrykowski, we appreciate you taking the time. I'll make sure that our product manager and engineers see this.

Fine Bottled Water

rainforest1155 wrote:

I like ideas promoting the comment function. I've made some requests myself in this field. Really like your sample picture. Looks very good and stylish, too. Can we have this??

Thanks,
Sebastian

Thanks!

shogun

Default Geographic Location Feature Request
It would be really nice if we could set a default geographic location for settings the location of an image. Rather than having to zoom all the way out from somewhere in California then scroll halfway across the world and zoom in again it would be great if it started in my usual general area to take photos.

Andy

shogun wrote:

It would be really nice if we could set a default geographic location for settings the location of an image. Rather than having to zoom all the way out from somewhere in California then scroll halfway across the world and zoom in again it would be great if it started in my usual general area to take photos.

Thanks, Shogun, for the feature request - we appreciate you taking the time. I've moved your post to the features request thread.

Thanks again,

DigitalFocus

customization update button
just wondering ...if matbe .... we could have another 'save customization' button at the top of the page or neaerer the css window?

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tony larcombe

Seconded !

Andy

small stuff - but noted

moved to features request thread.

Mike Lane

I too would like to have more save buttons. I would like to have them below each of the boxes on the cobranding page please

x&xp

Could Mac Uploader "Synchronize" instead of "Add" ?
Hi. I've loved SmugMug for several years. I have a new mac on which I now organize photos with iPhoto. I'd like to see the Mac Uploader "synchronize" an iPhoto & SmugMug album, rather than merely upload all the iPhoto album's photos up to SmugMug.

I created new same-named albums in iPhoto and Smugmug, put pictures in the iPhoto album, and used the Updloader to add them to the SmugMug album. So Easy! Great!

But I took another picture I wanted to add to the album, so I added it in iPhoto, and again used the Uploader - but it merely added the whole album again, leaving duplicates of everything. Deleting the whole album from SmugMug before uploading the updated-album works, as long as all my SmugMug photos always come from iPhoto, but it destroys the ease of iPhoto & the uploader.

Can the uploader by made to only upload those photos that have been added since the last upload? Ideally, it could also update the names/captions on SmugMug for pictures with new names/comments in iPhoto.

winnjewett

odd sized page numbers
I have a small complaint that should be fairly easy to fix. When browsing through a gallery on SM, the position of the 'next page arrow' (>) is based on the width of the page numbers. So, as the pages switch from single to double digits, the arrow is shifted to the right. This makes it impossible to leave your mouse in one place, and cruise through a gallery.

-Winn

Andy

winnjewett wrote:

I have a small complaint that should be fairly easy to fix. When browsing through a gallery on SM, the position of the 'next page arrow' (>) is based on the width of the page numbers. So, as the pages switch from single to double digits, the arrow is shifted to the right. This makes it impossible to leave your mouse in one place, and cruise through a gallery.

-Winn

Hi Winn, please put feature requests in the Feature Requests thread. That way I don't have to spend time moving them

I'll make sure that JT sees your request, thank you for taking the time to make it.

winnjewett

Andy wrote:

Hi Winn, please put feature requests in the Feature Requests thread. That way I don't have to spend time moving them

I'll make sure that JT sees your request, thank you for taking the time to make it.

Sorry about that, Andy. Thanks for moving it for me.

-winn

Andy

winnjewett wrote:

Sorry about that, Andy. Thanks for moving it for me.

-winn

No problemo - it's really only to keep them all in one place - easier to track etc...

photocat

I wished that we could know if customers bought our prints. I recently joined to the pro account, after I did an anniversary shoot in California. Expensive trip, and I had no clue untill after fourteen days that you could not sell prints if not having a pro account.

After fourteen days I switched, but I am afraid that by then, most people just downloaded the pics, as I had not protected them, and had not set a price.

What I really would like to know now is if there have been sales, even if I don't have profit on it. It would be nice to know... Do I have ONE customer who ordered prints, which means I am a total fluke... or is it as I suspect, that they downloaded without paying or ordered without me having set pro pricing...

hmmm, don't know if my question makes sense... call it jetlag

Andy

photocat wrote:

I wished that we could know if customers bought our prints. I recently joined to the pro account, after I did an anniversary shoot in California. Expensive trip, and I had no clue untill after fourteen days that you could not sell prints if not having a pro account.

After fourteen days I switched, but I am afraid that by then, most people just downloaded the pics, as I had not protected them, and had not set a price.

What I really would like to know now is if there have been sales, even if I don't have profit on it. It would be nice to know... Do I have ONE customer who ordered prints, which means I am a total fluke... or is it as I suspect, that they downloaded without paying or ordered without me having set pro pricing...

hmmm, don't know if my question makes sense... call it jetlag

Hi Cat,

It's a pro-account differentiation. Only those with pro accounts will get reporting on print sales - and only then if you mark up the pricing. Here are some tips:


http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2005/07/19/how-to-block-at-cost-sales/
http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2005/07/19/tracking-at-cost-sales/

http://www.smugmug.com/help/print-pricing
http://www.smugmug.com/help/reporting

I hope this helps.

jfriend

Chicken and egg

Andy wrote:

Hi Cat,

It's a pro-account differentiation. Only those with pro accounts will get reporting on print sales - and only then if you mark up the pricing. Here are some tips:


http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2005/07/19/how-to-block-at-cost-sales/
http://blogs.smugmug.com/pros/2005/07/19/tracking-at-cost-sales/

http://www.smugmug.com/help/print-pricing
http://www.smugmug.com/help/reporting

I hope this helps.

I think we've expressed this opinion before Andy, but I think you would sell more pro-level upgrades if you gave people sales information before they had pro-level accounts. That gives them the data they need to calculate how much they could have made if they had a pro-level account with custom prices and thus helps them prove/justify to themselves that they should have a pro account. Without the data, it's hard for people to know how much "marking up prints" would be worth to them.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

I think we've expressed this opinion before Andy,

Thanks for the reminder, John.

Art Scott

Flip Album
Would like to be able to upload my galleries as a flip album...the ability to look at an actual album with pages that flip just might increase the sales of the Pro Users and would even make the standard users galleries a little more special.


Don't get me wrong but it would make the SM experience a liite more creative ofr us that have the software, especially since our space is unlimited....and the albums are usually very small...120 pics did not even take 10 mb...I think (actually closer to 1 mb).

Thanks

Andy

ART SCOTT wrote:

Would like to be able to upload my galleries as a flip album...the ability to look at an actual album with pages that flip just might increase the sales of the Pro Users and would even make the standard users galleries a little more special.


Don't get me wrong but it would make the SM experience a liite more creative ofr us that have the software, especially since our space is unlimited....and the albums are usually very small...120 pics did not even take 10 mb...I think (actually closer to 1 mb).

Thanks

Hi Art, thanks for taking the time to make the suggestion.

mercphoto

Originals always available if logged on?
If I'm logged on to my Smugmug account, then whenever I order one of my prints, I get that print at-cost, no matter what it costs someone else. Very nice and convenient feature.

What if when I'm logged onto my site that I can always see the originals and always download the original to whatever computer I'm on?

Andy

mercphoto wrote:

If I'm logged on to my Smugmug account, then whenever I order one of my prints, I get that print at-cost, no matter what it costs someone else. Very nice and convenient feature.

What if when I'm logged onto my site that I can always see the originals and always download the original to whatever computer I'm on?

Hi Bill,

For now, you have to go in, turn originals ON, protection OFF, and "save photo." Thanks for taking the time to make the feature request, I'll make sure that everyone sees it. - and I wish I had a better answer for you....

All the best,

mercphoto

Not a problem.

flyingdutchie

Feature request: Site visibility & Google sitemaps
Hello Smugmug,

Google has program going called 'google sitemaps'. It is possible to verify your site and have a better chance that your site is found and indexed.

However, Google looks for this file (example):
http://www.yoursite.com/google123456f0ce95e9d8c.html

If you have your domain www.yoursite.com pointed to www.smugmug.com (via CNAME record changes at your domain provider), this html file needs to be uploaded to www.smugmug.com. Currently this is not possible.

My request for a new feature is:
It would be nice if pro-accounts can upload any (size limited) file to their root directory, so that google sitemaps can verify the site. I.e. i'd like to be able to log-in to my account and upload google123456f0ce95e9d8c.html to www.yoursite.com, go to google-sitemaps and hit the 'verify' button successfully.

Thanks
-- Anton.

Andy

flyingdutchie wrote:

Hello Smugmug,

Google has program going called 'google sitemaps'.

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Thanks
-- Anton.

Very interesting, Anton - thanks for the feature request!