New Image Handling System
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our new image handling system! The new setup is a leap forward in our continuous effort to provide the best-possible platform for photographers.
Historically, we've partnered with some great third parties to handle our image processing and delivery. But, while placing an almost obsessive emphasis on image quality, it became apparent that bringing this functionality in-house would be the best way to provide the standard of quality and features that are important to our clients.
Improved reliability
We've built our delivery system on the back of Amazon's AWS services, which runs much of the modern-day internet and is unrivaled in the realm of reliability.
Faster download speeds
Having more control over exactly how images are handled means we can utilize cutting edge compression tech to find more preferable compromises between image quality and speed.
Even better-quality images
Bringing things in-house means being able to free up resources to spend on things that improve the value of our service, like faster servers, higher image quality, and more performant/expensive file encoding.
More flexibility
The new system provides an extremely flexible platform that will allow us to introduce many new features in the future!
The new image handling system is already in use by all V2 websites. We'll be rolling it out to all V1 websites soon.
Changelog
- Improvement Smoother drag-and-drop functionality in the admin area.
- Improvement Much-better Firefox support with drag-and-drop and text editing.
- Improvement Improved support for nonstandard filenames.
- Improvement Added client-side image scaling for uploads, to effectively provide unlimited image size constraints.
- Improvement Improved first-time image load latency.
- Bugfix Fixed an issue with extremely large PNG files not showing up (Thanks Ruzaini!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue with image moderation not working in some cases.
Changelog
- Improvement Introduced a completely new image handling and delivery system.
- Mobile Added dynamic header hiding to Mesa theme on mobile devices (Thanks, Scott!).
- Email Form Made changes to email titles to avoid emails from different senders being combined into single threads by email apps (Thanks, Tony!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue with
og:urltag when a subdomain is used. - Bugfix Fixed issue that caused logo to be cut off on mobile when using the "Meridian" theme in some cases (Thanks, Toby!)
Changelog
- Bugfix Fixed issue with breadcrumbs wrapping on mobile (Thanks, Victoria!).
- Bugfix Fixed an issue that caused some images to load slowly (Thanks, Nate!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue that would cause erroneous message to show up in place of hidden sections in some cases (Thanks, Kevin!).
- Bugfix Fixed formatting issue with color picker (Thanks, Cameron!).
New 'Local Override' Options
Have you ever wanted just one section of your website to appear slightly different than the rest?
With the release of one of our most-requested features, you can now customize individual sections without affecting other similar sections on your website, making it much easier to do things like center just an intro paragraph, change the size of just one slideshow, etc.
While editing a section's layout, you'll see a new "Local Overrides" tab. From there, you'll be able to set design options for just that specific section.
Changelog
- Feature Added ability to make local design changes to sections that don't affect other sections on a website.
- Mobile Added new mobile height controller to slideshows (Thanks, Nate!).
- Improvement Added ability to disable automatic diptychs for specific images in the "Stack" layout.
Changelog
- Feature Added the ability to hide sections on a page, without deleting them.
- Feature Added the ability to move sections between pages.
- Improvement Added labels to section toolbar, to make things easier to identify.
- Improvement Improved image spacing in lightboxes on landscape-oriented mobile devices (Thanks, Hunter!).
- Marketing Added testimonials to home page.
- Improvement Replaced some older custom code for videos, removing some problematic third-party dependencies, and updated all affected websites.
- Bugfix Placeholder text now no longer sometimes shows up in link previews (Thanks, Damien!).
- Bugfix Fixed an issue that caused some contact forms to stop working (Thanks, Philip!).
- Bugfix Fixed an issue that prevented full-justification form working on text sections in Safari (Thanks, Armin!).
New Section Toolbar
The toolbar at the top-left of each section just got some big updates! You can now hide sections from public view, or move sections to different pages.
This is one of our most-requested features since launching V2, and should make reorganizing your site much easier, eliminating the need to delete and reupload content when moving things to different pages.
Changelog
- Feature Added ability to disable the automatic portrait-oriented image pair diptychs in "stack" gallery layout.
- Improvement New header layout option for the Mesa theme (Thanks, Liang!)
- Improvement Added Linktree support to social media links.
- Improvement Disabled "Tab" key UI shortcut when custom code input is active.
- Improvement Improved styling of color swatch selector.
- Improvement Added support for
tel:,mail:, andsms:links. - Improvement Added support for phone numbers in social media links.
Changelog
- Feature New breadcrumb navigation section added.
- Feature New 'Raw HTML' pages.
- Feature New right-click blocker :/
- Improvement Improved the way browsers' back buttons affect image light boxes.
- Bugfix Fixed spacing issue with full-bleed slideshows on mobile devices. (Thanks again, Will!)