New themes added

Thursday Jan 18, 2007

Three new themes have been added to the default selection that our users can now choose from, bringing the current total number of themes to five. Each of the themes comes with selectable light and dark styles, allowing photoblog visitors to choose there own style when viewing the photoblogs.

With a little HTML and CSS knowledge these themes act as great starting places for users to create their own bespoke website. Alternatively you can work with our designers to create your own custom site like these photographers have:

Martyn Goddard; martyngoddard.com
Trevor Yerbury; trevoryerbury.com
Eric Kelley; photoblog.conomocity.com

If you are interested in this service please contact us for a quote.

The following are small previews of the five current default themes available to our users (all with the 'light' style):

Arctic:

Arctic Theme

Basic:

Basic Theme

Intuition:

Intuition

Mangosteen:

Mangosteen Theme

Pumpkin:

Pumpkin Theme

To see these themes in action, have a browse through our photoblog directory.

Posted at 05:43PM Jan 18, 2007 by Richard Jones | Comments[0]

2nd beta release

Sunday Jan 07, 2007

The 2nd beta release of the pixyBlog service is now online. This latest release has many back-end improvements with the handling and storage of photos, an improved user-interface and puts us one step closer to the full release of the service.

Some of the changes our users will notice include:

Multiple photos per blog entry

As requested by our users, you can now post up to five photos on an individual blog entry.

Photo management

A new interface in the admin area now allows you to view and manage all you photos.

View/edit the information and use for each photo.
view/edit any of the photo Exif data (e.g. shutter-speed, ISO).
Add/remove watermarks from individual photos.
View the generated thumbnails and previews for each photo.

Previews and thumbnails

Users can now make use of the following photo thumbnails and previews which are automatically generated when each photo is uploaded:

small thumbnails : 50 pixels*
Thumbnails : 100 pixels*
Large thumbnails : 200 pixels*
Square thumbnails : 85x85 pixels

Small preview : 500 pixels*
Preview : 800 pixels*
Large preview : 1024 pixels*

* indicates the largest dimension of the resized photo.

Watermarks

Users can now apply embedded watermarks to their photos. Watermarks can either be created by the user and uploaded to their site, or users can use our online watermark generator tool to create a subtle opaque watermark image.

The watermarks can be applied and removed at any time. Watermarking of photos can be set-up as default for any new photos uploaded.

Posted at 12:33PM Jan 07, 2007 by Richard Jones | Comments[0]

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