Sunday, November 23, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
A few tweaks made today - if you have all photos in an album set to private, and no album cover selected, the stock "folder" icon will be shown for the album, in your portfolio, instead of the first photo in the album.
So,
1) If you set a cover photo for an album, that photo will be used as the album image in your portfolio, regardless of the image's privacy settings.
2) if you do not set a cover photo for an album, the first public photo in that album will be used as the album image in your...
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Friday, November 21, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
In order to provide album sorting options - I've made a small tweak that will sort all album photos by the order they were uploaded. The most recent images will be shown first. We'll be adding other sort options soon.
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Thursday, November 20, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
I've discovered a bug with Windows tablets running IE11 which prevents the slide-out menu button (on the right) from working when you click them. I'll have this resolved shortly.
Update - this has been corrected. It was a minor issue - Windows tablets running IE10 or 11 should be good to go.
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Sunday, November 16, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
Curious what your albums look like to the rest of the world, but don't want to constantly log in and out?
In the top bar, by your nickname, is a little down-arrow called "Switch Views". Click this to switch to "Public View", where you'll see your albums, photos, about and articles as everyone else does - without the extra management buttons and boxes.
This is also a good way to test your private and password-protected album settings as the public would see (or not see) them.
If you have any...
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Sunday, November 16, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
Want to know how much putting your photography on a site with effective SEO can give you more exposure? This site - and my own account have been indexed by Bing for just a few weeks, and my album
Rocky Mountain National Park is on the FIRST PAGE of Bing, searching for "Rocky Mountain National Park."
This is a significant search category, with nearly 15
million results. I expect all of our users to have similar results, and better, are our user base grows.
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Sunday, November 16, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
I've enabled the heart icon for favorites when viewing an image in lightbox mode.
The heart icon on the right of the lightbox is to "favorite" a photo. If a user has already marked a photo as a favorite, it will appear in red - clicking a red heart icon will un-favorite the image.
Favorites by anonymous visitors are counted - but they can't favorite the same image multiple times.
Next up is showing the heart icon on images within the album view, as well as the number of favorites.
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Friday, November 14, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
A few updates for today....
- There's a new menu up there in the corner. It's called a "Hamburger" by web geeks. Just move your mouse over it, click it, or tap it (on touch screen devices) to open the menu. This menu fits much, much better on smart phones, and looks a lot cleaner, especially as we add more features.
- Fixed an issue with the Login dialog that seemed to only appear on Firefox.
- Updated the Private message icon to only appear if there are unread messages.
- Working on clearing notifications ...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
You can now delete an album. The album has to be empty first. Use the
Manage Album Images button in the top right of each album to remove individual images. Then the
Delete this Album button will appear if you're viewing an album.
I've also split up 'notifications' and 'activity' on the notifications page.
Your activity will be listed as such - and activity from others -
notifications - will appear as such. next up for notifications engine is to clear notifications you've seen, and dim the...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
Nickname EditingWe've enabled editing of your Nickname in the Account dialog.
Warning - changing this changes your URL. Each member has their own URL, with their nickname at the end:
http://village.photos/members/NICKNAME
Changing the nickname will invalidate any existing links to your portfolio, articles, albums, etc. Any links to your pages in search engines will also be broken, and may take a several days to update.
Also, any shares or likes of your albums/images to social media sites will be...
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Friday, November 07, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
I found some issues today where we were using an usual amount of memory for the site - that was causing everything to get "reset", which was logging users out.
I've put in a few tweaks, and few performance improvements - the "logged out" issue should be much improved, and your portfolio and album pages should load a bit faster too.
Please let me know if you continue to have issues staying logged in.
support@village.photos.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
Facebook's App Center has approved our site for use - you can now register using your Facebook account, for easier login.
If you already registered, and if the email address you use for Facebook is the same one you used when creating your account - you just use 'Connect using Facebook' next time you log in, and your existing account will associated with your Facebook account.
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Wednesday, November 05, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
I've added a "Forgot Password" link to the login dialog - which will generate an email to the account owner. Following the link sent to you will prompt a "Reset Password" dialog, so you can get in, should you forget your login password.
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Monday, November 03, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
Just in case - I've enabled the Mature Content flag that's available in each album's settings.
This will warn a visitor to the album (regardless if its password protected or not) that there may be mature content ahead - and prompts them to confirm that they wish to continue.
With albums now having settings for Private, Password Protected, and Mature Content, I realize there are a lot of variations. Here's a run-down of how they all work.
1) Private and Password albums are not listed to the...
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Sunday, November 02, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
I did some testing with Safari (PC version, latest) and found the drag and drop image uploader wasn't working.
That's been fixed.
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Sunday, November 02, 2014 by
Scott Smith Photos
I've added password protection as an option to album security.
Now they can be either private, or password protected. Visit the album you want to protect, and click the "Manage Album" button. Choose "Password Protected", and enter a password, up to 10 characters. You can then share the link to the album - and the password.
We may change this - and list password protected albums with other albums, OR list them once the password has been entered. For now, they will not appear to others in your...
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