joshroot Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 If you go to any single image page in your gallery, you will now see a "more photos by <your name>" box on the right side next to the comments. There will be three thumbnail images picked randomly from your portfolio. There will also be a text link to your full portfolio. The purpose of this is to encourage viewers to dig deeper into photo.net portfolios. A user might have come to your image page via a google search, or a image you placed in the critique forum, or by a link sent to them by a friend. What we want to do is to help give them a reason to view more of your images. The photographers on Photo.net have some great images and we want to help them get viewed. This is good for us, as it encourages existing users to become more involved with the site (instead of just critiquing one image of a particula user's, perhaps they will critique three) and it encourages new users to explore the site and perhaps join our community. It is good for our users because it help encourage more visibility of their images and hopefully increases views/comments/ratings/sales/jobs/etc (whatever reason a particular user has for presenting work on photo.net). One important note, images that you have in "hidden" folders will NOT show up as thumbnails. We figure that people have any number of reasons for using the "hidden" feature, and we do not wish to mess that up.<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norma Desmond Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Josh-- This is a great feature and good encouragement for people who visit a photo's page to look further into portfolios. One small thing. I'm glad that photos in hidden folders will not show up! Thanks for thinking of that. But I do notice that (in my case) it says "View Entire Portfolio (80 images) -- about 50 of which are hidden -- so when people go to my portfolio and only see 32 images they will probably wonder why the big discrepancy in number of photos. I do notice that when I view my community member page, it says Gallery Photos (32 Images), so obviously the system is able to recognize only the viewable photos in coming up with the number. I wonder if the same thing can be done with this new feature. Anyway, a fairly minor point. And, again, thanks for a helpful new feature. We didn't need dialogue. We had faces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yann1 Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Indeed, a good idea, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beartooth1 Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 This is a "great" addition to an already "great" site!(IMHO ;)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petemillis Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Nice one! This idea is the dog's bollocks - cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 Fred, Good catch, I'll get that fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Those of us who like to browse, appreciate the addition. Good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manut Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Josh, Just an observation, and it happened so I noticed. The selection of these images is random, but it does not have an interlock to not repeat the image already being shown as main page. I had the same image that I was seeing also in the side one. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_elder1 Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Question: can the photographer whose photos are shown pick the 3 photos or change the 3 photos that have been randomly picked? Seems that would be a good feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 20, 2008 Author Share Posted March 20, 2008 Manu, I'll see if that is an easy thing to fix. If it is, great. If it's not, it may have to wait. John, No, they are randomly chosen. It would be a large mess to try and give people the ability to choose the three images for every image in their gallery. Would be cool, but we have a lot of other projects to work on before we get that picky about features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ananda1 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 When I opened PN today I was surprised, vey good improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonjb Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Thanks guys, this is a nice addition to the site. I have found myself looking back into other members older works more often with this feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshroot Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 Fred, The number of images should now be correct. Manu, You now shouldn't see a thumbnail of the image you are looking at. If either of these aren't corrected yet, they will be by tomorrow morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manut Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_dimarzio Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Oh, is this all. I thought maybe Z posted a photo. hahaha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivek iyer Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Josh, One hiccup with that "random" selection is that it displays images from the so-called "hidden" folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antoniobassiphotography Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 Great feature Josh, excellent work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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