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Posted 4 November 2008 @ 10am in Links, News, Sales and marketing, Tips and tricks

We Have a NextProof Facebook Group

I was going to install some forum software on the site–to facilitate discussion and share upcoming gallery themes. Instead, I’ve decided to create a Facebook group (for the time being at least).
If you’re a Facebook user, join our group.

My profile is here as well.


Posted 3 October 2008 @ 1pm in Tips and tricks

Use Passive Mode for FTP Transfers

Just a quick note. Because of the firewall configuration at our new servers, you must use passive mode when uploading images via FTP.
As far as I know, every FTP client supports passive mode transfers.
I currently use Transmit for Mac when uploading. Passive mode option is located in Preferences->Network.


Posted 27 June 2008 @ 11am in News, Tips and tricks

2 Small Updates

by Erik Dungan
We deployed 2 small updates late last night. First, there is a search form when viewing your orders. This will come in handy once the orders start accumulating over time.
Also, we’ve added a field to your Account & Billing settings. The Extra Information field will be displayed on the right-hand column of your [...]


Posted 27 June 2008 @ 10am in News, Tips and tricks

Gallery Date Issues

by Erik Dungan
A few people reported gallery start or end dates coming up with something like 0008-06-20. This was because the system does not recognize 2-digit years and we incorrectly gave you a tip of using the format 6/20/08. Our bad.
If you’re going to use full dates, you’ll need to use the format 6/20/2008. You [...]


Posted 16 June 2008 @ 11am in News, Tips and tricks

Tutorial on Embedding Slideshows

by Erik Dungan
We’ve made some updates to the embed-able slideshow of featured images. You can now embed it at any size (up to 600 pixels square).
I’ve also posted a tutorial on how to embed it in your blog.


Posted 10 June 2008 @ 3pm in News, Tips and tricks

Coming Soon: Embed Your Slideshows

by Erik Dungan
This isn’t exposed in the NextProof control panel yet, but I’ll post instructions on it soon. If you have a NextProof account, you already know that your featured images can play as a slideshow when a visitor views a gallery for the first time.
What you didn’t know is that you can also embed [...]


Posted 5 June 2008 @ 9am in Sales and marketing, Tips and tricks

Turning Event Guests into Customers Part I: Getting the Word Out

by Erik Dungan
Putting a wedding gallery online is pretty worthless if no one ever goes there. Last weekend I shot my first wedding of the year. I thought I’d use the event as a way to explore techniques for getting people to a gallery and (hopefully) increasing print sales. 
I honestly had no idea how to [...]