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re: Provide input on new features for Shozam's ecommerce capabilities

Shaggydog — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:47:31 GMT

I am in the process of developing my photography website and have run into two major issues: 1) web program could not produce galleries for sale, only for "family/friends looking on." So, had to purchase another program and thank God "Shozam" showed up on the Internet search.

2. Having one hell of a time getting my third party shopping cart integrated with the S. Business Edition. The shopping cart has a Product Manager where all of my products have been laid out and ready to sell...now is the question-how to do it? There needs to be a way to develop numerous drop-down menus, first name the category you would be looking at, then in the drop-down would be all the options available. I agree with the organization of "pricelists" where these menu are across the board. For me, the images will not have prices as that is integrated with the cross-sell and up-sell products listing.

3. Image ID is a valuable item for photographers. Yet, unless you sneak in somewhere in the program, it's not available. The Image ID is what the photographer would use for each photo........not necessarily the photo's name and file format. Yes, under Shozam I can do that using the caption of each photo....a miracle has appeared.

4. Lastly, the idea of having the customer make all the selections they want for each item (and options) AND then having add to basket button would be a good idea.

5. Selling of products and options......for whom the seller will choose their own provider is more important than having a hook to PayPal. Folks may not use the PayPal options; rather select a third party shopping cart AND then use PP as the transaction of money agent only.

As I end this epistle, the Shozam HelpDesk team is working with me to resolve these major issues. The team is usually very quick to answer e-mail.

I'll be waiting for the upgrade of the S. Business Edition.

re: Shozam featured on Tucows Shareware Spotlight!

Razvan Neagu — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:42:08 GMT

Link looks to have changed to www.tucows.com/.../1667

re: Provide input on new features for Shozam's ecommerce capabilities

Razvan Neagu — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:28:44 GMT

Incremental fixes and fine-tuning happens on an ongoing basis.

I don't have a date yet for new features based on the blog post above. The Dev Team is looking at a few options; I should have more details in about 4-6 weeks.

re: Provide input on new features for Shozam's ecommerce capabilities

BorsingPhoto.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:39:47 GMT

When is the next update of shozam Buissness planned, if any?

re: Provide input on new features for Shozam's ecommerce capabilities

BorsingPhoto.com — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:39:39 GMT

When is the next update of shozam Buissness planned, if any?

re: Provide input on new features for Shozam's ecommerce capabilities

ernie decker — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 03:26:25 GMT

I hope you do add a feature that would have drop down buttons for various size options when a buyer clicks on thebuy button. I am just about to buy your business edition and this would be ideal for me. I sell photos in various sizes.

re: Just how much Faster is Shozam?

Tom Purse — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 06:51:52 GMT

I've had photos on Webshots for several years now but Shozam offers me more control and features for my photos. Watermarking comes to mind first. Shozam allows me to watermark my photos three different ways whereas Webshots, I've noticed, puts their own watermark on some of them. The slideshow is an excellent feature with the option to add audio. I receive email daily with good comments about my gallery and slide show. The features in Shozam totally outweigh the features (not many that I can see) on sites such as Webshots, Kodak, and others. Here today, gone tomorrow is also something that contributed to my buying Shozam. The maps are an excellent feature that I use with some of my photos, mainly because a large number of visitors to my website are from foreign countries and have emailed me numerous times asking where some of my photos were taken. Now they can click on a map and find out for themselves. Thanks Komotion for an excellent program!

re: The Image Protection Trade-off

Razvan Neagu — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:58:15 GMT

Ted, I posted in the new "HTML Forum" some thoughts on how the (CC) license compares to a regular copyright notices as well as information on how to include a Creative Commons (CC) license by inserting HTML code generated at the CC Web site:

http://shozam.communityserver.com/forums/thread/636.aspx

I have also posted information about some cool resources for creating custom graphic watermarks:

http://shozam.communityserver.com/forums/thread/643.aspx

Regards,

Razvan

re: The Image Protection Trade-off

RHWeiner — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:19:36 GMT

As it is my intent to showcase and not necessarily sell my images I'll probably only leave a smallish copyright. I'm also considering on not making it easy for web search engines to find my stuff as I'm doing a lot of glamour and some nude shots. I have heard from others that once the connection is made that their sites have these types of images they get hammered and subsequently get notification from their ISPs of the massive increase in traffic...sometimes not getting the notification but a huge bill for the extra bandwidth required.

Ultimately there is no real way to stop someone who *really* wants a copy of your photo. So the best bet is to keep the viewables to such a small pixel dimension and high enough compression rate as to stop people from printing out the photos. However, this does not stop the few occasions where someone will take the file, strip off any header/footer copyright info and claim it as their own (I've seen this happen). So for those you need to 'ruin the image' by throwing a watermark across it. If you do get complaints from individuals that they can't clearly see it, well...you have to suspect their motives for the complaint.

The only way to ensure that no one copies your images? Hard copies in a physical book that you keep with you. Very Old Tech!

Richard W.

re: The Image Protection Trade-off

Ted D. — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:14:13 GMT

I reelly like this concept but would it conflict with a copyright notice?

re: Radical Transparency

kkmcneel — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:13:24 GMT

(The following Member comment was moved to this new blog, "Behind the Curtain" so user URL and avatar do not appear.)

Razvan,

Words such as yours, are reassuring to those of us who like Web Gallery Wizard and are wondering how Shozam! will compare and measure up. It is good to know that you remain focused on making this new product even better. So far so good.

I must confess that I find the sample themes disappointing when compared to Web Gallery Wizard's themes, but I note that more are to come. You track record is good, so we look forward to a swish end product.

Spondoolix