Newsletter No. 1 August 2008
Splash screen option
When creating or amending a page you can select the template with which it will be created. As well as the standard template that you have chosen for your website, there is now a selection of “Splash” templates. This is effectively a blank canvas which will appear in the middle of your screen when the page is loaded. You can use this area to upload your own graphic and create a link from this, or some associated text into your main site. See a sample here
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More template variations.
In our last upgrade we introduced black background templates. We have now amended the Chic Black to create a variation with no header. This is to prevent the header taking up too much “screen real estate” throughout the whole site. A major image can still be used on the home page to create impact, but subsequent pages do not have to carry it – this reduces unnecessary repetition and frees up screen space to be used for content relevant to the particular page.
Acclaimphoto.co.uk
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More gallery management options
- Watermark applied per gallery.
- Allow galleries to be omitted from display
- Allow galleries to be sorted
- Automatically set a “display image”
- See also Gallery Hit Counter for how this information is displayed at the summary level
Gallery summary screen and hit counter
Although we integrate with Google Analytics for detailed breakdown of web page hits, we have received a number of requests for a high-level figure representing gallery views. We have added this on the "My Galleries" tab together with the additional features included in “More gallery management options”
Order management enhancements
There is now a “Payment by cheque” option on the client checkout screen and a payment by cheque category on the order details screen.
The order details screen also provides a Cross Reference to PayPal item ID or ease of checking.
Improved notification features – images grouped within galleries making it easier to identify the source of images
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Improved website Control Panel usage
Breakdown of where your disk space is being used.
- Space Allocation
- My Galleries
- My Images
- My Files
- Remaining Space
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Express Setup examples
We introduced the Express Setup after Focus 2008. If you still haven’t got your site up and running – what are you waiting for? Here are a selection of clients we helped get online using the service.
A1fotograffiX Aquarian Photography
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Gallery-Only examples
Have your own site and want to sell online? See some samples of how we have integrated with existing sites to allow photographers to add online sales to their own site.
Hazel Hannant Stephen Ford Photography
(Green text at the bottom links to Idealgallery site) (Wedding, Portrait and Travel link to Idealgallery site)
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