Webinar

Showit Tips and Tricks. Join us for a Webinar on June 16 Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/363697402 Join members of the Showit team for a 30 minute tips and tricks session followed by a question and answer time! We will try and answer all of your questions in the meeting but if we don't get a chance to answer your question we will send you an answer via email. Talk to you soon! Title: Showit Tips and Tricks. Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 Time: 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar. System Requirements PC-based attendees Required: Windows® 2000, XP Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista Macintosh®-based attendees Required: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer

Update and Webinar

Version 1.6 of Showit Sites was released today that included a bunch of fixes and features including:

• Support for MP4 and h.264 files that are supported by the Flash player
• SmugMug image feeds in photo galleries
  
• Match sizes on multiple selected items
• Background overlay color
• Background transition out
• Show untagged items in Media Library
  

We also did a demo of some of these features along with some sneak peaks of some galleries that are in the works, check out the session on our tutorials site:



During the webinar, the following topics were covered in this order:

• New features in the update
• Background color overlay and transition out
• New gallery widget coming soon
• Using tags to organize your files
• Laying out your site using alignment and distribution
• Matching the height and width of items
• Locking the aspect ratio on resize
• Drop down menus
• Creating a splash page
• Various Showit pricing
• Sites and SEO info
• Custom fonts
• Paypal integration
• Tracking web stats with Google Analytics
• How to start building a site
• Custom Client Pages
• Wrap up

Showit Q&A

We had a great Question and Answer time, if you missed it, check out the video on our tutorials site:

Updates....yea....

Be on the lookout for a nice update next week with a killer new gallery feature! We have 5 new galleries coming and I am so so so excited about them! Here is a sneak peak of one gallery that you'll be able to create in less than 5 seconds! Simply drag a group of images in and you instantly have a full screen gallery with a customizable "hover on/off" thumbnails window. Brett's been jamming on these for the past month and they turned out even better and cooler and easier than we had planned!

Aaron's also been working on updating the backend of our Media Lab to help you make more money! Our Media Lab delivered over 4000 DVD's last year and is now doing over 400/month! We put over $175,000 in photographers pockets last year and we're excited to make you even more money this year!

In order to do this we listened to your advice and axed Paypal as a payout option b/c of their heavy fees for biz accounts which many of you have.

Lastly we added in the ability to download and fill out your W9 right inside your account. We are required by law to collect these from you so another change is that we must now collect this form before we pay you but don't worry it's only 13 pages long. Just kidding. :) It's short so get it filled out and get your cash.

Ok...That's it! Rock on!

DJ