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2011-01-13 New album styling features
Rien
posted this on January 13, 2011 03:40 pm
We just released some new features and enhancements for the Viewbook album styling, to help you style your albums more visually and faster and give you some extra options.
New:
- Album Styling Presets
- Add a link in your album to your website or any other web page.
- Inline editing of Album and Image titles and descriptions.
- New Album styling panel design
If you have any questions or find a bug, please let us know via support@viewbook.com and we'll fix it.
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New styling panel design
The new styling panel gives you an overview of the different aspects that you can style, in stead of showing you all detailed options at once, like it was before. You can now click on one of the options, it opens up and gives you the specific options to edit. Click again and voila! It closes.
Album Styling Presets
Saving page designs as presets was already possible, but now you can create style presets for your albums as well. Saving an album style preset for your client presentations and another one for the albums that you embed elsewhere and another for the albums that you tweet, saves you a lot of time. Every new album that you create you can apply the saved preset to in just a few clicks. Also the albums that you use in your site pages you can save presets for, just click the preset option in the styling panel within your page.
Inline editing of Album and Image titles and descriptions.
You can now edit image titles, captions and album descriptions directly visually in the album. To edit, just click on the field once and start typing.
Album credit link
You can now add a credit link in the footer of your albums, which brings visitors to your main site. So for all albums that you send to people via e-mail or share via Twitter, Facebook or any other place, they see the link to your main website, or any other site that you like them to go to. This little text field can also be nice to mention credits and copyrights.
Comments
This is excellent news!! I was really really bummed that you had to go in and tweak the album settings for each and every album and then if you decided to change one thing, you had to go in and change them all. I also really love the new little caption you can put on the bottom left side, very smart thinking! Thank you, Thank you!
Great to hear. Thanks!
The viewbook Logo appears on every album now !
...and I can't hide it as I did before... What's the problem ?
but other features are great ,)
Is the "Album Credit Link" the same as if I wanted to put a back button on my album without having a galleries page? How do you add a link to the text area?
You can hide the logo under the 'General' section.
When you click the Credit link text box you can add a link in the field at the top.
I don't have the "Hide" button in 'General' section, only Background color... a bug ?
Sando, you have the Basic (Trial) account and you cannot hide the Viewbook logo in the Basic account. Only with the Standard and Pro plan.
no I have a Standart account.
sandro.viewbook.com
Ah, ok. I see it's only supported in the Pro account: http://www.viewbook.com/pricing_and_signup/. I'm going to take a look at this. Did it work in Standard account before?
Thanks.
Yes it worked, I was able to hide it. Now there are albums with logos (new ones) and some without it...
Love all the new features. Can I add an "Album Credit Link" with a basic account? I currently don't see this option available to me. (taylorgreene.viewbook.com) Please help... I'd really love to use this feature.
Love all the new features. Can I add an "Album Credit Link" with a basic account? I currently don't see this option available to me. (taylorgreene.viewbook.com) Please help... I'd really love to use this feature.
Disregard above question... I found it. (smile)
Disregard above question... I found it. (smile)
In my pro account, how do can I have my album displayed at maximum pixels? (i.e. 1000px width) I see this can be done in Album style, but when the album is dropped into an Album page on my site ( i have created albums to be menu categories) it only displays about 750px in size. I notice on some other viewbook site examples it's possible. What do need to be adjusted on my end? Thanks!
@Nino To get the album largest in your album page, you can set it to 'scalable' in the advanced page settings. This works if you have the menu at the side. If you have the top menu layout it's important to make your images horizontal enough to fit the canvas. Also for all layouts, the more elements you have in your albums, thumbnails, captions, they take space in the canvas and make the images smaller. So less is more!
@Alrik, Nino Andonis has a good question, but I don't think you've answered it. For example, if you check out this site: http://www.benedikt-partenheimer.com/, you will notice that when you click on each album, the album displays very large, and doesn't incorporate the menu in the layout. Also, notice the back button at the top left corner.
I am finding it just impossible to replicate this technique, and I swear I could do it when I was using the trial version. I thought with the Pro, I would have at least the same functionality, plus more...
Can you help solve this mystery? Thanks!
@Geoffrey Use the 'Open Albums full screen' option under the 'Thumbnails' tab on your Collection page.
Duh! It was right there! I guess I was thrown off by the wording.... I figured "Open Albums full screen" meant that it would be the same as the fullscreen mode where it makes the album take over the whole computer screen. I would recommend Viewbook use a better wording for that button, as it was not quite intuitive.
Otherwise, I just have to say, Vewbook is amazing in every way! Its been a pleasure using it. Many thanks!!!
Great, thanks! You're right we'll change the wording in Viewbook V3.
I feel really silly, but as I can't find the solution to this anywhere and I'm sure I've just missed it. How do you display your logo on the albums when they are in fullscreen mode? At least mine seem to without any logo.
Thanks!
Hi Sara, no worries. In the full browser album it's not possible to add a logo, only a credit link, captions, descriptions and such. If you use the collection page format you can choose to open the albums within the page and keep the logo, navigation and all there at all times. If you enable the full screen option in the album people can view your images full screen if they want. Hope this helps!
OK, thanks. At least it's not me that is just missing it. Guess I'll have to leave that turned off then, if I want the logo shown.
Sarah, if you use the collection page you can click once on the thumbnail field and in the editbar above you can choose to open the albums in the page or full screen. If you have any other questions just submit a request http://support.viewbook.com/anonymous_requests/new
Thanks again, but it only give a credit in the footer and no logo when in full screen, so as this is not available, then I'd prefer to keep it so the slideshow works in the pages with the logo. (I completley understand this is how it is designed to work, I just don't want pages without the logo).