Like to go back to the old style
Suzikane
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Good Morning,
I have tried out the new smugmug and I don't like I'm sorry to say....have chosen a couple of designs...but it's not the way I would like to see my gallery.
Is it possible to keep the old style..and to go back...?? How do I do that??
Cheers
Suzette
I have tried out the new smugmug and I don't like I'm sorry to say....have chosen a couple of designs...but it's not the way I would like to see my gallery.
Is it possible to keep the old style..and to go back...?? How do I do that??
Cheers
Suzette
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Sorry guys, not ready for prime time. I assumed from the demos I could try before I buy. I tried, I ain't buying yet. So how can I get rid of everything "new" and have my old format come up when I access the site logged in. So I don't have to click on "view legacy" every time?
If not, then you still have your old design anyway. It doesn't go live until you click (and type) "Unveil".
http://www.canvas-of-light.com
http://canvas-of-light.smugmug.com/
so pls pls...someone!!
Suzette
Click on Legacy Style. That should take you back to the old interface
--sent from mobile
anything can be amazing
Are you trying to work in the old interface?
If so, I don't believe customizing the new site design templates are available with the old interface...which is probably a good thing.
What are you trying to customize on the new design templates from the old interface?
anything can be amazing
I WANT TO GO BACK..the old style was way better in overview..much clearer!
Cheers
Suzette
Once you 'Unveil', the legacy site wil no longer be available. While in sandbox mode, your visitors will see the legacy version. In time, everyone will be converted to the New SmugMug. No word when, we'll keep everyone updated.
Suzikane is trying to tell you like a lot of other people that they DO NOT LIKE THE NEW AND DO NOT WANT IT! but it seems smugmug isn't listening. I think the new themes look cheap and I will be embarrassed to show my work with that look as it is now.
In this new preview mode You should see a button in the upper right corner that says something about using legacy style. I was also the one looking for it for at least 15 minutes
Huge problem: Where are all the legacy view subcategories? i can't upload without creating a new one, and then can't navigate that new one from my old homepage, because it is not where it needs to be for client access.
I thought nothing would change till we accepted the new view.
This is making legacy view totally unusable for me, and forcing the change before I can even learn how to navigate. And right now I can't even center text in the new view, so that is also useless at the moment.
If it's a bug, please restore all my subcategories ASAP. And if its not a bug, tell us. Cus those of us who categorize our client galleries can't truly 'use' legacy view when all of our into old subcategories have ben wiped away.
I don't have time to sit and tinker with it right now. True that I unveiled, but the small details such as the right click message becoming a new default were not something I would have suspected before. So while partly my fault, there's gotta be something where we can code the site to go back to Legacy.
For being a pro, this sure does make me unprofessional in front of my clients.
In my opinion, this was launch prematurely to rip benefits from the things that were going on over Flicker. There are no tutorials, no documentation, no guidance, as a result many of us inadvertly unveil the new site loosing any chance of going back.
To me this has been a big screwed off by Smugmug.
Lots of documentation, sorry you missed it.
http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1229963-walkthrough-your-new-smugmug-site-in-5-minutes-or-less-
http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/topics/538899-new-smugmug-transition/articles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifuuczTQEwg
I hope this helps!
Support Hero
I wrote a few unhappy posts in this forum before the switchover and I only mention that so that it's clear that I didn't start out as a cheerleader. I'm not saying that the problems you're having don't exist, but I think that saying that this is a rushed response to Flickr is to completely mischaracterize what happened.
It was obvious to many people that the old Smugmug was way behind. Designing was clunky and limited, mobile support was atrocious at a time when it became practically required, and then they pulled an unbelievably huge rate increase on us without shipping a design upgrade they announced. That design upgrade was announced two years ago. I almost left Smugmug.
Since then all kinds of photo websites modernized. Not just Flickr. The quality, range, ease, and flexibility coming from Wordpress, Squarespace, 500px, PhotoShelter, and many others zoomed right past Smugmug and set the bar at a level that showed just how much Smugmug was lagging. Many of the new Smugmug designs look like they were pulled right out of Squarespace, Wordpress, and 500px. That is what Smugmug was reacting to, an environment that existed long before this year. Flickr was one of the last sites to modernize; it was evident to anyone who watching the big picture in the industry that Smugmug could not be reacting to Flickr.
(I won't even go into whether it makes any sense to compare Smugmug to Flickr. They're not Smugmug's real competition.)
The fact is that Smugmug was not rushed. It was the opposite, they were late. Very late. At least two years late and after a long list of other sites had modernized. The timing was never a reaction to Flickr. It was because Smugmug was working on details. Yes there are things that are wrong and buggy with the new Smugmug. But if you have taken a close look at how the other sites out there work, Smugmug's execution of this is actually pretty good. It could have been much, much worse, because much worse does exist in some of those other modernized sites. Frankly I'm impressed with the new Smugmug. I just want them to get the rest of the post-launch fixes and features out (and I am sure they do too), but so far I am happy. But I will not "unveil" until I'm 100% happy with what my new site is doing.
www.foreversmile.smugmug.com is huge...and I don't want to go to the new themes..cause it's going to be a disaster..I think it's good for small websites/portfolios..but not for the ones..with millions of photos...
here's a screenshot of my gallery....clear...and I want something like that...and I don't think there are a lot of themes...like the old smugmug had....it's more based on the layout of a website..and not a gallery...if you know what I mean...
and this is another gallery...of mine....
Suzette
I thoroughly and utterly disagree with your reasoning. The facts you list pretty much contradict what you claim.
1. SM announced the new design over two years ago.
2. Virtually every other photo hosting site has had a major overhaul, even Flickr (one of the last, in your own words).
3. SM was very late, and obviously caught short by the change at Flickr.
They couldn't continue with the "old" SM anymore, so despite it not being ready (after two years of promises) they launched anyway.
From what I've seen it has been a mixed bag. The Flickr type uses really like it (new templates, drag and drop, no nasty CSS or scripting, YAY!) while the pros have found (the hard way) that many of the things they rely on are no longer supported, and only some of them are being considered for "future" enhancements. Work around solutions are being found for some, but who knows when they will get broken with a code revision.
I have no intention of even trying the preview for several months, there are far too many reports of legacy sites being corrupted just by entering preview mode.
SM absolutely needs to provide users the option to switch back to legacy mode (from preview or unveiled) while they work on finishing this obviously premature release.
Wise decision not to preview. I wouldn't have either, if it hadn't been for all the trumpeting of it all being "Sandboxed". I have a fair bit of experience with Wordpress and I figured the sandboxing would be like previewing themes on Wordpress. Little did I know that Smugmugs definition of sandboxing goes against all common sense. Now I have renamed subcategory names and missing galleries in my legacy site, all from previewing an "upgrade" I have no interest in upgrading to.
It is true. There are several threads from smugmug saying that everyone will be forced to "upgrade". As usual, the standard statement was given "There is no timeline for this".
For those who simply want to share photos, I'm sure that this is a very cool thing. It very much looks like the newer upgrades seen elsewhere. Dozens of nice big images on the homepage, with a search and browse button. No wonder some were able to migrate in under an hour.
For those of us who spent many days creating a functioning website, this is not the easiest of transitions. The great features were left out of this "upgrade" and many of the things we took for granted, like embedding calendars and contact pages are no longer possible (at least not yet).
It feels like there aren't enough of us (website builders) left to make a dent in the process.
This upgrade seems very much like an updated version of the easy customizer. Dumb down the system and more people can use it. That equals lots of users and more money. From a business standpoint I completely understand that.
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