We are pleased to announce the following improvements and feature upgrades for V3 users:
Galleries:
- Support for HTML 5 video allows your videos to play natively in modern browsers and mobile devices without a plug-in. The new player will automatically detect if the viewer's browser does not support HTML 5 and will swap in a similar Flash player. The New video player also scales videos to fit the available space allowing you to upload larger movies than previously possible. In order to take advantage of this, your videos need to be in the HTML 5 video format (mp4 files encoded with H.264 video and ACC audio) and you need to enable the Enable HTML 5 video setting in the Gallery Settings tab.
- The Facebook Like, Google+, LinkedIn Share and the Pinterest Pint-It buttons can now be activated within a gallery, making it easier for your viewers to share your images with their friends and drive traffic to your website. You may also choose to bundle all of the above into a single Share link to keep your gallery looking tidy. These settings can be controlled in the new Email, Printing & Social Networking section within the Gallery Settings tab.
- You may now choose to hide the Gallery Controls Bar totally or make it appear on mouse-over. Your images will automatically scale to accommodate this functionality.
- New Hot Spot Navigation allows your users to navigate back and forth within a gallery by simply clicking on the left or right side within the main viewing area.
- Ability to set the margin size giving you more 'breathing room' around your media if necessary.
- Ability to set the size and color of a border/matte around your images.
- Ability to set rounded corners on your images.
- Ability to set a drop shadow or white glow behind your media.
- Ability to ghost a larger version of the current image onto the gallery background. This feature can help make use of the white space behind an image - especially useful for portrait images which tend to show more background.
- Magnifying glass icon will now appear when mousing over an image that has zoom enabled.
Social Marketing:
- Added new LinkedIn Share button
- Added ability to upload an image that will be shown when your site is shared on Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest
Misc:
- Password fields no longer show letters, etc.
- Support for custom horizontal scroll bars
Bug Fixes:
- Gallery images will no longer show banding if loaded slowly in Firefox
- Icons are now being placed at the bottom of templates 10 and 11 properly if slogan does not exist
- Sitemap.xml file will no longer create double entries of URLs
- When entire site is password protected, the log-in box will now center properly and background image will display correctly
- Sitemap will now correctly display the images from within galleries that you have enable image SEO on
- Info overlay will show as expected when viewing a movie in Quicktime
- Zoom image dragging within a gallery now works as expected
Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:57 AM