Author Archives: J-F

Baby-sitting servers, so you don’t have to

Things have been quiet on the “new feature” front for the past few weeks, but we’ve kept ourselves busy as always. A major ongoing project of ours is about improvements in the server infrastructure that supports the PhotoDeck service. Not … Continue reading

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Revamped image navigation

We love clutterless design. Even more so when it also contributes to better usability. Not only is “minimalist” trendy, it also makes images speak louder – especially important for portfolios and promotional webistes. So in this spirit, we’ve improved the … Continue reading

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Revamped image overlay

Some times ago we introduced a way to display image metadata as an overlay over the image. It was a new great way to unclutter the design of a website while still making it possible to display plenty of information … Continue reading

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Introducing: auto-scaling images

We are proud — very proud in fact — to introduce a tremendous design improvement available now to all PhotoDeck websites: images that scale to fit the available space. It works on both large and small devices: the same image … Continue reading

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Staying busy…

Our recent launch in France was the culmination of a major project that involved thousands of phrases to translate. We didn’t take any break, though, and many development tasks take place outside of major projects. Among the small and not-so-glamorous … Continue reading

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PhotoDeck launch in France

Big day for us today – we’ve launched PhotoDeck in France! All parts of the service are now available in French (via e.g. www.photodeck.fr), including the tutorial videos, which undoubtedly will make it easier for Frenchmen to benefit from the … Continue reading

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Adding / customizing Social Buttons to your website

Adding buttons to share your website on social networks, or to follow you on Facebook / Twitter / Google+ is easy – and very configurable. Instead of re-inventing the wheel, PhotoDeck makes use of the service provided by AddThis.com to … Continue reading

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Fast, very fast websites… in numbers

At PhotoDeck, we believe in fast HTML-based websites. Because your clients don’t like to wait (nor do search engines, for that matter). How fast? Here is the figure of the day: 97 / 100 Typical Google Page Speed score for … Continue reading

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Simple client batch download

We’ve received great feedback about the 1-click download facility for client galleries. We certainly think that it looks better than using FTP or other generic file-sharing solutions… But many also told us that wasn’t ideal for larger amounts of files. … Continue reading

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TIP: Manually validating all orders

Kevin asks: Whenever someone tries to pay I always get an email saying “THIS ORDER REQUIRES MANUAL VALIDATION”. Have I not got something set correctly? By default, PhotoDeck ecommerce is setup so that your intervention is not required to get … Continue reading

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