New 'Strata' Theme
Our new 'Strata' theme is now available. Designed to be a more traditional-style option used for simple sites without a lot of photo content, such as events or invitations, it features a compact design that can help a website look "finished" even if its content may be lacking.
You can try it out by creating a new website and choosing "Strata" from the options, or by switching to it from the "Theme" tab in an existing website's settings.
Changelog
- Feature Added the ability to customize sites' robots.txt file, to do things like block scrapers and/or ai training bots.
- Improvement Improved the live website preview when moving pages around between collections.
- Improvement Improved the selected page indicator in the "pages" sidebar.
- Bugfix Fixed an issue that prevented the correct options from showing up in the theme settings (Thanks, Damien!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue that prevented "divider" sections from being editable (Thanks, Côme!).
- Bugfix Fixed an issue that prevented page details from being editable in some cases (Thanks, Jani!).
Changelog
- Feature Added the ability to see list of all pages on your site at once.
- Feature Added the ability to move pages between sections/collections by way of dragging and dropping.
- Improvement Major user interface overhaul
- Bugfix Fixed issue with V1 sites that prevented site image previews from updating (Thanks, AJ!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue with V1 sites that prevented newly-uploaded images from appearing instantly (Thanks, Darren!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue that caused image galleries' batch sorting options from working properly (Thanks, Victoria!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue with images stretching in the V1 control panel in some versions of Safari (Thanks, Darren!).
- Bugfix Fixed an issue that caused an occasional temporary 502 error message.
Changelog
- Improvement Added support for SVG image uploads.
- Improvement Rolled out new image handler for V1 websites.
- Improvement Improved lightbox blur effect while image is loading
- Bugfix Fixed issue that caused some images with nonstandard file names from working (Thanks, Christina!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue with graceful next-gen image formatting with some older versions of Safari (Thanks, Bart!).
- Bugfix Fixed issue with mobile footer alignment in some instances (Thanks, Daniel!).
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.