22Slides

We’ve shifted our focus to our control panel, improving, refining, and adding new things we’re sure you’ll enjoy. We’re very happy with the results, the new features, and the foundation it provides for even more new things to come.

As always, here’s a list of the major changes:

Redesigned control panel

We’ve done away with the dated-looking 3d-rendered effects and focused more on refining the overall design and flow of the control panel. We’ve made actions more obvious, used space more wisely, and added lots of new features.

See more of your images at once

Control panel thumbnails have been made smaller and given the ability to span your entire screen. This allows for many more to be shown at once, which is great for managing large catalogs and re-organizing things.

New ability to hide images

Now you can hide/show individual images from a photo gallery without having to erase/re-upload them. This is handy for quickly making changes to your pages without having to delete and re-upload the files.

Custom image gallery thumbnails

Now you can select any image in a gallery to serve as that page’s thumbnail just by clicking a small “star” icon at the bottom left of each image. Even hidden images can be used, which opens the doors to create completely custom thumbnails that aren’t displayed in the gallery at all.

New ability to move images between pages

You can now move images to any page you like, instead of having complete the tedious task of erasing and re-uploading.

New consolidated “Content” section

The old “Pages” and “Links” sections have been combined into a single “Content” section, to make the navigation more reflective of each section’s importance and better reinforce our strategy of separating content from design.

New “Collage” pages

This new page type displays 100 random images from your website, each image linking to its image gallery. It’s a great alternative to the standard home page slideshow.

Automatic custom domain validator

If your custom domain isn’t properly setup, the “settings” page of your control panel will now let you know. It’ll even give personalized advice, telling you exactly what needs to be changed.

Improved payment fraud detection

You can now provide a ZIP code when updating payment information, which helps validate ownership of the card and ensures payments are always properly processed. If you’ve had issues with your bank declining our charges in the past, updating your payment information now should help (even if you use the same card that’s already on file).

HTML support for Dropbox add-on

You can now upload HTML files to your Dropbox folder to publish them to the web, and yes, that includes exported photo galleries from applications like Lightroom. Just export HTML, move to your Dropbox/Apps/22Slides folder, and it’s now published to the web.

Other stuff

• Improved contact form confirmation message
• Created easier way to find images’ URLs from control panel
• Increased Instagram page thumbnail sizes
• Improved responsive image scaling in “popup” photo gallery display
• Improved responsive image scaling in “sideways-scrolling” photo galleries
• Improved responsive image scaling in home page slideshows, especially when images are different dimensions
• Added support for German characters in page URLs
• Fixed bug that caused images to sometimes appear out of order in “tiles” photo galleries
• Changed closed account grace period from one to two months before accounts are erased
• Improved Flickr add-on account recognition to accept url folder names, profile urls, usernames, and contact email addresses
• Removed “trial” banner from trial sites