Product Updates

Get informed about product updates and behind the scene tech developments.

November

Login with Facebook
Change the menu name of the Store page
Getting ready for full SSL support
General improvements and bugfixes
Refactoring code

October

Secure websites with free SSL
Viewbook now offers free SSL. Through SSL, your visitors see a lock icon next to your URL in the browser. Viewbook websites running on username.viewbook.com and custom domains with the correct DNS settings now run on HTTPS. These websites are now 'Google Approved Secure Websites' and have better ranking. More info follows soon. For questions contact us at [email protected].

Faster website loading with HTTP2
Besides free SSL Viewbook websites running on username.viewbook.com and custom domains with the correct DNS settings now run on HTTP2 a faster version of the web that also really improves loading images on your webpages.

Site caching for faster site loading
General improvements and bug fixes
Refactoring code/database improvements

Note: SSL is not yet supported on naked domains. They do not yet redirect properly to https (https://example.com to https://www.example.com)

September

Slideshow Gallery variable fade speed setting
General improvements and bugfixes
Refactoring code

August

New 'Square Grid' gallery
A grid gallery of squares. See how it looks and works.

New 'Vertical Grid' gallery
A grid gallery that maintains aspect ratios within vertical columns. See how it looks and works.

New Store
You can now sell your products on your Viewbook website. Check the announcement video.

July

Testing new 'Store' feature with selected users
Added social icons for Pinterest and Vimeo
Preparing inhouse server provisioning
Site/page refactoring
Database cleanup
Bug fixes

June

Testing new 'Store' feature with selected users
Testing new 'Square Grid' gallery with selected users
Preparing inhouse server provisioning
Bug fixes

May

New 'Square Grid' gallery testing with selected users
Facebook share now picks up image when sharing the first time
Fixed VAT rule on invoices for customers in EU
Discount expiry message for EDU users
Rewrite of automatic messages send to users
Voice verification for signup
Refactorin sites CSS
Refactoring site/page structure
Bug fixes

April

Animated GIF support
New 'Square' size in Collection page (with correct image crop)
Use background image for Facebook share
Improved image processing/loading speed
Improved (cms) viewbook.com, new featured sites/interviews section
Refacoring: upload servers
Bug fixes

March

Slideshow Gallery in Collection Page
Slideshow Gallery Page alt tags
Fixed page display with empty albums
Fixed Pinterest Sharing in Slideshow Page
Refactoring of Collection Page
New image processing servers
Bug fixes

February

Support article for connecting Google Analytics and Search console
Image links in Tumblr blog
Full screen button Vimeo embeds
Refactoring styles & api's
Bug fixes

January 2016

Support article for Favicons
Improved Facebook sharing of images on Collection page
Faster image loading via HTTP/2 a faster version of HTTP
Improved Dashboard design
Added link to 'Dashboard' in Viewbook manager under the 'Account' icon
Added link to 'Product updates' in Viewbook manager under the 'Support' icon
New image proxy caching server
Refactoring asset loading Viewbook editor
New support admin
Bug fixes

December

Favicon
Upload a favicon (the little icon that appears on your browser tabs) for your Viewbook website on the dashboad.

On-click Google Analytics integration
Assign a Google Analytics profile to your Viewbook website on the dashboard.

Faster Viewbook Editor. Runs on HTTP/2 a much faster version of HTTP.
Refactoring site logo logic
Bug fixes

November

Social icons
Social icons appear in your footer or sidebar when adding your facebook, instragram, linkedin and twitter username on the Dashboard. See the Add Icons for Social Media Accounts instruction video.

Google Search Console (Webmaster tools)
Connect your Viewbook site to Google Search console via the Dashboard.

Secure connection for Manager (https)
New styling password and download pages
Dropped support for Fotomoto
Improved sharing to twitter
Links are supported in image descriptions in mobile site
Performance updates Manager
Performance update Collection Pages
Performance update album downloads
Refactoring, Manager into main application

October

Album download link in image organising view
You can now directly download images from the 'Image organizing' view when opening an Album in your manager.

Performance improvements for Collection Page
SMS verification at signup
Change telephone number in account settings
Username moved to Dashboard, is now your 'Viewbook domain'
Refactoring image/album relations, improved performance
Better blank page display
Bug fixes

September

New Non-flash Slideshow Gallery webpage
The new Slideshow Gallery has many of the same options as the previous version but is non-flash, has better loading performance and image display. You can convert your Album pages to the new Slideshow Gallery now by opening your Album Pages and clicking the 'Convert to Slideshow Gallery' button. For galleries in a Collection this new gallery will be available beginning 2016.

Display expired coupon codes
Reactivate cancelled subscription
Refactoring, unified image storage, faster image serving

August

New support site
Totally revamped support site with a better layout and video tutorials to get you started with Viewbook or to learn more in depth-features.

Improved sharing to Facebook
Beta testing non-flash gallery
Soft delete on Albums (albums can be restored by Viewbook support)
Logout on mobile and Account settings
Improved upload performance
Various query performance improvements
Switched from Mysql to Postgres as database
Merged separate services (utilities & api.viewbook.com) into main application.

July

Album and Image downloads start immediately (no more waiting for download to be ready)
Fixed color profile issue

June

New simpler invoices with VAT
Faster images on mobile site with on-the-fly resizing and webP format optimisation
Soft delete on webpages (pages can be restored by Viewbook support)
Extra alert when changing subscription
Server performance, separate caching server
Viewbook logo on login pages
Refactoring, unified image storage
Refactored retina and image size logic for collection page

May

Account wide analytics code
Video in Tumblr
Site performance: Cleaned up and optimized assets on web pages
Image sitemaps for Google Image search
Transactional e-mail via Intercom

April

Mobile Sites
Viewbook released Google compliant mobile sites. When visiting your Viewbook site on a smartphone users will see a streamlined version of the desktop site you designed. Navigation, galleries, and text have been optimized for use and legibility on smartphones. You can preview and activate it on your dashboard now.

New Dashboard
On the dashboard you will find important settings for your Viewbook account, like domain name, Google Analytics and Social links.
To get to the Dashboard click the 'Account' icon on the top right when you're logged in and choose 'Dashboard'. Or go to https://app.viewbook.com/dashboard.

March

Server performance, load balancing
Refactoring, Sites and Accounts into one application