"Recent Galleries" Home Page "widget"?
darryl
Registered Users Posts: 997 Major grins
I know that SmugMug has said before that they're reluctant to add too many features for fear of alienating basic users. But my god, have you seen the Photo Tool drop-down menu lately? Talk about bloat! :-}
But seriously, would it really be that confusing to newbies if SmugMug offered a "Recently Uploaded" or "Recently Updated" home page "widget" that people could just choose from the Home Page tab?
I think some people like their categories to stay put (sort by arrange), but would still like to have "new stuff" show up on the front page. Sure, it would also help if the Updated timestamps for categories didn't always reflect the first gallery in a category, instead of all galleries, but still, that forces people to read the fine print to see what's new.
What do y'all think? I've come up with a really hackish way to convert your Featured Galleries into Recent Galleries, but it requires a Unix server to run a Perl script from every hour. I doubt the majority of users have that at their disposal.
But seriously, would it really be that confusing to newbies if SmugMug offered a "Recently Uploaded" or "Recently Updated" home page "widget" that people could just choose from the Home Page tab?
I think some people like their categories to stay put (sort by arrange), but would still like to have "new stuff" show up on the front page. Sure, it would also help if the Updated timestamps for categories didn't always reflect the first gallery in a category, instead of all galleries, but still, that forces people to read the fine print to see what's new.
What do y'all think? I've come up with a really hackish way to convert your Featured Galleries into Recent Galleries, but it requires a Unix server to run a Perl script from every hour. I doubt the majority of users have that at their disposal.
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I second it.
I find this feature useful on PBASE (the recently added function). Actually the PBASE method, which shows what galleries have been modified & when, is pretty useful as it allows visitors to judge how frequently the owner updates their galleries.
Gareth
www.eyeforphotos.co.uk
Dave
Oh well, I guess it's "official" now, for whatever that's worth.
Anybody else want to vote with a "me too"?
I see this request has been raised more than a year ago. I recently joined myself and found myself wishing precisely this. Well - I search the forums to see if it's been addressed and looks like it was (addressed but not implemented)
It seems like such a basic function to add - really just an improvement on the timeline. Instead of showing pictures as a timeline, just show albums in a strip (like thumbnails on the bottom of a slideshow). This way we could have our categories set up AND have a running horizontal strip of albums sorted by the upload time.