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.
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.
New Server Cluster goes live!
Over the last few weeks we have been busy installing new hardware and software in our new data centre in Manchester. We hope to have all our customer web sites moved onto the new servers by the middle of September.
We’ve done extensive testing, and the Phosys system is now capable of distributing the sites over different servers.
During the move, your web site will be available on at least two servers so that you and your customers will not notice any downtime. PC users will have to download the latest version of the software (2.10.5) from www.phosys.com, which will automatically point you the correct server in the new cluster. Web application users should notice no change, as logging into any of our servers will automatically log you in correctly.
We apologise for any inconvienience during the move, but the majority of our customers should not notice any change.
Iain
New Checkout Features
We’ve just finished work on a number of new features for the Phosys Checkout system with more going live tomorrow.
The Checkout will automatically be displayed in the language associated with the users browser. What this means is that if a visitor from the Netherlands (Dutch is our first translated language) visits your site, the Checkout will be automatically translated for them. The currency displayed will still be the currency associated with your shop, and all transactions will be in your currency.
Because other countries don’t require all the address information like the British address system (e.g Title and County), the new basket will only capture information relevant to the country that the shopper is from:
We’re also planning to go live tommorrow with two new Internet Payment Providers – ePay (for our Danish and Scandinavian customers) and Barclays ePDQ.
Video Feeds
It is now possible to stream video using Phosys! We’ve incorporated a flash viewer that can play a variety of different formats including mp3, mp4, flv, rtmp, swf, rbs, 3gp and m4v. (more…)
