Phosys Web-app Update
This is an announcement for those Phosys customers who use the web-app (online editor) to update their websites.
On Monday we launched our new web-application which has a host of new features, some upgraded utilities and a new design. The update went smoothly and with minimal disruption to the service. Here’s a run-down of what we’ve added:
Login page
You can keep abreast of Phosys updates and announcements on our Twitter account (www.twitter.com/phosys) and through the web-app login page, where the latest tweets appear automatically, along with the five most recent blog posts.
Pages & Albums
You can now add captions to your images – just click on the thumbnail to enlarge, enter a caption into the box and click the ‘Set’ button.
Our image uploader has been upgraded. You can now use this to upload media files such as PDF documents. Please make sure you only upload media files to a ‘Bypass’ album (such as ‘Web Graphics’).
You can also add a description to any images uploaded – these are then automatically entered into the caption field.
Prices
You can now edit and create price lists using the web-app.
Click the plus symbol to create a new list. Select an existing list to edit it. Please make sure not to edit the layout data options (prefixed with ‘GenericSite or WebPage2010’).
Add new option lines to the list by entering an ID, Description and click ‘Add’. IDs should contain only letters and numbers (no spaces). Price list text should be set to ‘Heading’, priced items should be set to ‘Price’.
Click ‘Set Defaults’ to add prices to your options.
You can reorder a price list by clicking the reorder button next to the list name. You can then click and drag each line into position.
Categories
You can use the Category editor to change the default settings for new albums (e.g. to update a default price list or watermark).
Click ‘Edit’ next to the category you wish to change and make your changes. You can click ‘Edit Layout Data’ to change the album layout (e.g. page type, number of thumbnails, slideshow timing etc).
You can now hide old albums to keep your ‘Pages and Albums’ section free from clutter. Just click ‘edit’ next to the relevant category and enter a number into the box underneath ‘Show albums from the last X months’
New Features
We’ve also added a couple of new features to the system. Please contact us if you require more information about these as they may incur extra charges:
- Sub-album creator – for albums within albums (incurs a setup charge due to alterations to your existing page layouts)
- Electronic downloads – full resolution digital downloads (incurs a setup charge and monthly charge). Please ask us for our “Question and Answer” document to see if EDL is applicable to you and your business.
If you have any feedback for the new web-app please feel free to post comments on the blog or to email us directly.
Working through Focus!
Firstly many appologies for the lack of updates to the blog for a while, but we’ve been busy working through all the new customers that we gained at Focus on Imaging and at the SWPP show in London. Our busiest time of the year is between January and the Summer creating new sites and making over existing ones ready for the new season!
We’d like to take this opportunity to welcome all our new customers who’ve signed up with us recently.
We’re at the SWPP!
(I’m writing this post between talking to people!)
We arrived at the SWPP trade show yesterday
and set up our stand. The trade show opened about 50 minutes ago and is just starting to get busy.
We’ve seen several existing customers already and have chatted to a few new potential ones! I’ll upload a picture of the s
tand later when I have more time.
(Update 17:15)
It’s been a busy day, but I’ve now got 5 minutes to upload a picture I took this morning of the stand. I’m not a photographer, so please don’t comment on the quality!
Nick on the stand at the SWPP 2010
Where we are at the shows …
As normal we will be exhibiting at both The Society Conference (formally the SWPP) in London in January, and at Focus on Imaging in March.
The Society Trade Show runs from the 15th to the 17th of January at the Novotel, Hammersmith, and we’re taking up stands 91 and 92.
Focus on Imaging has moved back two weeks to March from its normal February slot and will be held from the 7th to the 10th of March 2010. We’re on our normal stand – G29 in hall 9.
We look forward to seeing you at one of the shows!
New Updates …
We’ve not been idling over the summer, we have been incredibly busy despite the credit crunch! I must firstly apologise for not keeping the blog up to date. There is a new version of the Windows software on the downloads page that has some minor feature enhancements, and a new version of the web-based software will be available next week.
Also on the downloads page are new versions of the manuals. They are much more comprehensive and tell you in detail how to complete many of the tasks that you might normally call support about.
