HELP FILES
Improvements include more complete Video information, Map address and coordinates syntax, and other added Help information.
RESOLVED ISSUES
- Future Beta versions should be able to read galleries and FTP presets created with this Beta version
- Promo Album has been removed. The software will no longer generate the promotional album
Themes: The temporary themes have been revamped to include cool new Intro animations (check out the “slide puzzle” animation). We are resolving the animation cropping issues, and new themes, coming in future Beta drops, will have differing color schemes
- Video: Windows Media video needs to be uploaded before it plays, Flash video cannot be imported directly. Importing video widgets works great. (Please see the Video Support tip posted earlier in the Blog, or the Help file, for more about video.)
- Video files can now be geo-tagged
- Drag-and-drop arrangement of thumbnails within the wizard (partial implementation)
- Direct input of image caption by clicking on the text under a thumbnail in the wizard
- Direct input of album description by clicking on the text to the right of an album in the wizard
Thumbnails now include media icons that appear when an image has an associated video and/or audio file
- Theme Editor text Help (for most properties) now appears at the bottom of the Step 4, Customize tab
Shopping cart buttons have been redesigned
- Slideshow timer has been added within the wizard
- Customize tab in Step 4 includes a diagram to show what regions of the gallery pages are affected by changes made in the theme editor
- FTP Presets tab in Step 6 has been completely redesigned to make it easier to use
- Watermark: now includes a text entry field for text watermarking; watermark gets applied to “original” size image; watermark displays at fixed size (no longer scales with the image)
- EXIF data has been grouped for easier reference
KNOWN DESIGN ISSUES
Default thumbnail cropping issues related to how Intro animation images are cropped.
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11 Responses to “BETA version 2.0.1.0”
Howard Rachlin Says:
February 17th, 2007 at 3:40 pm e
What happened to the old themes, specifically - Blackout - which I particularly liked?
Tim Madsen Says:
February 17th, 2007 at 7:27 pm e
I still can’t generate a web gallery, i get an error. i am assuming it is because i run windows vista. I sure wish i could check this out.
Tim Madsen Says:
February 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am e
I generated some galleries (on a computer with an older OS), I was very impressed. however, when i view an album Shozam only puts 18 pictures on a page and i must click “more” to see the next 13 pictures. I would like to have more then 13 pictures at a time on the sceen . how do i change this ?
Theodore K. Diebold Says:
February 18th, 2007 at 2:07 pm e
Wow! Looking good. I created an album with map co-ordinates on my pc and when I uploaded it to my web site it doesn’t recognize my Site. I signed up with google for my home provider and my Web site. The album I created is behind my home page under tab “Page under Construction”. Any Ideas? Will any custom galleries I create using the beta version be usable under the Pro version? This release was worth the extend release date.
Theodore K. Diebold Says:
February 19th, 2007 at 6:46 am e
I have resolved the map issue myself. My api that got loade in Shozam! was for my local provider. kind of hard to keep them straight. I’m really interested in seeing some more of your Themes. I don’t know how far away you are from actual release but I’m sold already. This will make udating my site a snap.
Theodore K. Diebold Says:
February 19th, 2007 at 6:56 am e
One thing that I noticed is that the only place that you can select detail about an image is when creatinga new gallery. If you want to go back and edit any selections when modifing a curent gallery that option doen’t appear to be available. Any thoughts?
Shozam! Team Says:
February 19th, 2007 at 11:42 am e
Howard, we are planning to provide the “Black Out” theme and possibly a couple of other popular themes from Web Gallery Wizard.
Shozam! Team Says:
February 20th, 2007 at 3:38 pm e
Tim, we will first implement all features to work as expected, fix bugs on WinXP and after that address Vista so there may be a few weeks until we have a fully Vista compatible version. We appreciate your patience.
Shozam! needs to limit the number of thumbnails it displays in QuickView at one time. Otherwise, there may be thubmnails all the way at thebottom of a long page, with the larger image displayed all the way at the top and this would not offer a good user experience. If thumbnails are cropped, 18 little one fit perfectly on the right side of the page and requires no scrolling. Additionally, this speeds up navigation since the page now needs to load just 18 thumbnails. If the page would display hundreds of thumbnails, it would really slow down navigation and impact negatively on hte user experience. Tradeoffs…
Shozam! Team Says:
February 22nd, 2007 at 7:11 pm e
Theodore, glad you got the Google Map API Key issue resolved.
We are trying to have galleries created with the Beta version of the Business Edition be compatible with the final release of the Business Edition. However, this is not guaranteed. If, in the process of development, we need to change the gallery file structure, this will affect compatibility. Our goal is to have the release version be backward compatible with WGW 1.5 galleries. Backward compatibility with internediate Beta release generated galleries is desired but not guaranteed.
You mention that the option for image details is available only when initially creating a gallery. I am not sure what you mean by that. Are you talking about EXIF details? Please provide more details as to what steps you take and what are the unexpected results.
Theodore K. Diebold Says:
February 23rd, 2007 at 6:42 am e
I was referring to the EXIF details when creating a new gallery Item 5 Gallery and the tab for image. When creating a gallery the option to select EXIF items is available. When modifying that same gallery that option was not available. Could not add or remove selection. I have reloaded Shozam! Fresh and started over this morning and it works???? I must have scrambled my installation and reloading seems to have fixed it. I appreciate the issues of structures and compatibility I just didn’t want to spend too much making use of the artistic juices if the work turned out to be obsolete. I kind of like my version of spotlight but can live with out. Just me being eager
Howard Rachlin Says:
February 27th, 2007 at 7:50 am e
I figured out how to have the album background and the rest of the screen different! Spending time on all the theme editing options I changed the middle section background. Just what I wanted!