We just re-launched your homepage

Posted Sep 1, 2009 by carl in JAlbum news

Today is a great day for Jalbumers! After months of coding, testing and intense listening to user requests we are now launching a brand new version of the Jalbum.net site. This includes all the user pages, so if you have a Jalbum account you are in for a treat. If your don't - get your free account now!

Here are our top 3 new features

Customizable homepage
From now on, username.jalbum.net is your most important Jalbum link to visit and to share. This is where your visitors find all your albums and where you can edit information about yourself and your albums. You may re-design the appearance of the page with the help of themes, to add your personal touch. For you those with premium and power accounts we provide a wider selection of themes and a color picker to customize every single color on your homepage!

Convenient Edit and Delete
Deleting albums from your Jalbum account has been a hassle. Now it’s easy. Each album now has a separate edit page. This page allow you to change album cover image that will be displayed in the community pages and your homepage. This is also where change your selection for widgets and where you will find the delete button when you want to get rid of an unwanted album.

Privacy and Password protection
We know that it’s important for you to share your photos with the right crowd. Choose to make your album public to the Jalbum community or private. The latter option means it won't be visible on your homepage or in the community pages, but you can still send a link to your album to a friend. You may also set a password for your album if you choose to. All of this takes place on the settings section of the Edit album page.

But wait there's more

Sharing and embed options to easily share any album in the community on sites like Twitter, Facebook or embed on a blog.
Favorites are called Likes, because it make more sense. If you like an album you will subscribe to its updates on your news feed.
...and Contacts are called Follows to remove the threshold of approving contact requests. People we follow are not necessarily our friends, but might also be photographers we admire.
New private messages, which will make following a conversation much easier, with the help of threaded messages.
New browsebar when visiting the explore section will occupy less space in the web browser and will make the album exploring more fun and flexible.

Thanks!

This launch would not have been possible without the support of our fantastic community. Thanks to all Jalbum users contacting us when you get stuck somewhere or when you send us a note of encouragement. We read and reply to every single e-mail! Thank you for all the generous donations. A big thank you to pixel magician Laza for designing our new site. Finally, we especially want to thank our forum admins for your continuous support and extensive testing of the new site during the development.

We hope you will love it as much as we do. Send us your feedback and have fun!

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freezethemoment says:

Did anyone else lose their album because of the update?

2 months ago

carl says:

Bitte senden Sie ein mitteilung auf "davidekholm" an, er kann Sie helfen (davidekholm.jalbum.net)

2 months ago

diaschau says:

Ich habe alles entfernt - auch in der Registry

2 months ago

carl says:

@erich1954: Danke!

2 months ago

carl says:

@diaschau: Haben Sie überprüft, in Installation / Deinstallation von Programmen in deine computer, die Jalbum entfernt wird?

2 months ago

diaschau says:

Die Version 8.4 gibt die Meldung aus - das die alte Version gelöscht werden muss. Nur wenn das geschehen ist kommt die Meldung immer noch wieder.
Kann einer helfen.

2 months ago

erich1954 says:

Großes Plus für die Umstellung Ich mag den neuen Look

2 months ago

carl says:

@Waris: check out dor.jalbum.net. Read the mascot's description and see his album "Early days"

2 months ago

Waris says:

What made you guys chose a dead frog with his eyes open for a logo?

2 months ago

Ron says:

New design is just awesome! Thanks for all the hard work.

2 months ago

carl says:

@sironic: You can change the (tree) theme in your Settings page. If you have premium or power account you can choose from lots of themes and also make your own theme. Please send me a message with the account you wish to close, and I will help you. You can change your e-mail address in the Settings too.

2 months ago

sironic says:

I dislike this design with a tree on my background for all albums... Is there a way to find a neutral background for homepage ? and I have the same problem as Jim Swift... Why should I have 2 different accounts, change user name and email ? Thanks

2 months ago

carl says:

@ jim swift: Please send me a message with the account names and I can help you.

2 months ago

jim swift says:

I just got notifications of the relaunch of two accounts that I never use. Is there a way to delete old accounts that are inactive?

Jim

2 months ago

Dor says:

@rwingjr: I understand your point, but 99% of Jalbum users who use their user.jalbum.net account as home page don't know how to make their own homepage from scratch and appreciate the possibility to customize. Jalbum can be used on any web host and we cannot compete with a general host with all the options that comes with that. The core of Jalbum, the photo albums, are fully customizable as you know.

3 months ago

rwingjr says:

I would rather have full control of my homepage, links, and how it looks. I'm sorry but I don't like this update. You have taken the control out of my hands and now my home page looks like an advertisement for jalbum rather than a professional looking photographers site.

3 months ago

carl says:

Thanks Julia, I'm glad you like it!

3 months ago

Julia Högberg says:

Hi!
I just took a tour on the new Jalbum site, you guys have done a great job!
You have made it a lot easier for not so techy people like me to navigate the site. Big plus for the switch from contacts to followers and for the different themes. Now I'm excited about exploring more.

3 months ago

nigesu00 says:

All the changes look very good.
Thanks

3 months ago

Dor says:

@Egidio and @weitahiti: thanks!

3 months ago

Egídio Leitão says:

Wow! Guys you've outdone all expectations I had about this redesign. Awesome!

3 months ago

weitahiti says:

it's great!!! I like the new look, but I have some display problem when I get into my album. I've sent an email to Anders Callertun. Keep improving Jalbum!!!
Best regards

3 months ago

Dor says:

Thanks Helen, glad you like it!

3 months ago