Tuesday, March 25, 2008

NEW! "More photos by ______" thumbnails on gallery image pages.

If you go to any single image page in your gallery, you will now see a "more
photos by " 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 particular 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.

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