Images

First 4 Images Now Free

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

This is a little secret that really isn’t a secret anymore. We’ve actually plastered it all over our Facebook and Twitter pages.

We are trying out something new…giving you 4 images to upload for free. Why? Who knows, but you better head over and take advantage of it right now because we don’t know how long it will last.

This can be a really good experiment where everyone is happy with tons of smiles or a not so good experiment where we have to get some more servers to hold all the extra images. We’ll let you know.

Tags: Facebook, Images, servers, twitter

New Image Upload Page

Friday, July 31st, 2009

NOTE: There are a few little bugs on the image collection page. We are working on them and will update this page when they are squashed.

A few days ago, we upgraded our image upload page. This is the third or fourth page you will come across while placing your ads.

Here is the old image upload page. If you have an older browser or a browser with an old (or no) version of Shockwave Flash installed, this is the version of the page you will see. By the way, if you want to download the latest version of Shockwave Flash player onto your computer, click this link and follow the instructions.

Old image upload page

As you can see, there could be a few problems with a page like this. The main issue we were having was the page expiring when members were trying to upload a few larger images. That takes time and sometimes it took too much time. The website reacted by showing a blank white page.

Here is the new image upload page.

New image upload page

As you can see, it’s a little better looking.

There are some fundamental differences between this new page and the old page.

First, the new page needs Shockwave Flash player to run. Don’t worry, most of you already have this installed on your computer. For you who don’t, click this link and follow the instructions to download it.

Second, this new page allows you to upload one photo at a time, minimizing the “white page” occurrences.

Third, you can now play with your images a little bit right on the image upload page. You can drop and drop to change the order of how the images display in your ad, you can edit and delete the images as well.

There are a few things we would like to point out that a few members have brought to our attention. Notice the red circles on the image above. The first red circle is the “upload” button. After you choose each image, you need to click that upload button. This needs to be done for each image. The next red button is the “continue” button. After you are finished uploading all your images (or if you decide not to upload any at all), click this continue button. After that, you will be brought to the next page.

Now, as with any new feature, there may be a few hick-ups. As always be sure to contact us if you find any. We will tackle them as fast as we can.

Tags: image upload, Images, new image, photo, red button, shockwave flash player, white page

New Sizes For Ad Photos

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

If you haven’t noticed yet, we’ll let you in on it. We recently adjusted the sizing for your ad photos. When you now upload a photo(s) with your ad posting, the images that display on the category page and the ad page will be a bit larger. We did this to improve user experience. That’s a good thing.

The only downside to this adjustment is that the photo(s) that you already uploaded with your ad before we made this change will be a little blurry. Your full size photo will still be clear, but the thumbnail on the ad page as well as the category page will be affected.

To remedy this, simply log into your account, click “My Active Ads” and edit each ad’s photo. Just re-upload the photo and the system will resize the ad properly so it is clear. If you have any issues while doing this, please contact us and we will be happy to help out.

Tags: category, Images, photos, Resize, size, size photo, thumbnail, upload, user experience

Resize Images Online

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Many of our support requests have to do with having difficulty uploading images to place in your ads.

Many people take photos with their digital cameras and either don’t know or forget to change the setting on their camera to “web.” This means the picture they took is going to produce both a large picture and a large file size, giving our system trouble.

We discovered a great photo resizing tool online the other day that can greatly help out with this issue. Now, you can take the photo off your camera and upload it to this website. The website will automatically reduce the size of the photo to the size you select (we would suggest 700px under the custom setting) and you can easily upload the resized photo to your ad.

Visit ShrinkPictures.com here.

Give it a try and let us know how the tool works.