PhotoAlbum News!

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Welcome New Users!
Traffic to the site is growing at a very nice pace and we are getting lots of new users every day. Thanks for visiting and please keep coming back!

We've been very busy updating the Online design tool!
We have been paying close attention to how the new site and design tool are being used and we've been very busy with new updates to help improve the use.

Coming Next!
One thing we have learned working with the heavy artwork designs for Scrapbooking combined with the 20 page Photo Book size is the difficulty of loading and previewing these albums. As a result we are hard at work now building a new feature for fast loading and delayed loading of pages. Currently the design tool loads all data for all pages and then renders the previews, this is fine for simple pages but is a killer for complex documents with lots of pages. With the new version we will only load the first page of multi-page designs and do so with a server side generated preview. This will give very fast loading.

Product Browser
When you login to your account on the web site and press the "Create" button you will now first see the new Product Browser window. There are a number of product types and sizes which can be built and the new Product Browser is intended to make it easier to select the correct one. First select the main category at the top, then the specific product to the left, then either open the templates or create a blank design to work with.

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FeedBack
We'd like very much to get your feedback. We want this site to meet your needs and we are trying very hard to make it happen. Please contact us with your thoughts, suggestions, problems, and successes. Also please feel free to refer this site to your friends and colleges.

Suggestions
There are many things that need to be done. Our biggest priority right now is developing the support for ordering printed products. It is a lot of work to do this and we want to make it as easy to use as we can. However in addition to this there are other things that we want to do as well. For instance we want to add support for sharing albums online using a nice Flash based "FlipBook" tool. Also we want to add forums and chat options. So please let us know what you want to see!

Thanks! David Lewis
david@photoalbum.com

www.photoalbum.com