Webinar Playback - Showit v2.0 Espanol

Click below to view the webinar that was hosted on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009. This webinar is completely in Spanish thanks to Rodolfo (Rudy) Arpia from Foro de Fotografia.

View the Recorded Webinar

Showit v2.0 Webinar in Espanol!

About two weeks ago Rodolfo (Rudy) Arpia from Foro de Fotografia hosted the first Showit webinar in Spanish. It was such a success Showit Fast and Foro De Fotografia are hosting another one Tuesday, August 18th. Rudy will be presenting a complete Showit v2.0 overview in Spanish.

Espanol Showit v2.0 Overview
Date: Tuesday - August 18, 2009
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm PDT

Click Here To Register

Todo lo que necesitas saber para comenzar a sacar provecho del poder de la web y de esta poderosísima herramienta. Estaremos cubriendo las herramientas básicas necesarias para poder tener un website funcionando en minutos ya sea con la versión gratis del programa o la versión PRO.

DIG Showit Rocked!

Man it's been a busy week here at Showit Fast! But it's the kind of busy that just makes us love what we do. This week we had the first ever Designer Insight Group (DIG). What is DIG you ask? Well, we had a bunch of designers out there using Showit to build websites. They are awesome websites, but we knew there was so much more in Showit they were not using. We also really wanted to talk directly with designers to listen and make Showit even better.

Being the first DIG we were unsure of the response and what designers would be looking for. The week completely exceeded our expectation. We had a killer time and the interaction from the designers was awesome. Thanks to the mad Showit skills of Todd and Brett, the designers had the opportunity to drink from the fire hose for two days and learn about some great features in Showit. We had some fun "ah-ha" moments and some funny "ah-ha" moments. During one of the sessions Todd double-clicked on an image from the floating media library to add it to the stage, which no-body (including me) knew you could do. Everybody asked, "When did you add that feature?" I suppose it's the small things in life that matter.

One of the really cool things we announced was the Showit Wiki. We are adding a bit more content before officially launching it, but it's coming very soon! We are using the same back end system as Wikipedia, so hopefully everyone will find it easy to navigate. I'm really stoked because it allows our community of users to continue and help build the learning that happens. Of course Showit will be cranking away and adding new topics all the time as well.

In traditional fashion everyone bunked up at The Freedom House and we had a great time. We are so grateful to the designers that joined us and can't wait for the next DIG Showit. It could be coming to a city near you! If you're a designer and would be interested in joining at DIG Showit shoot me an email.DIG on the roof of Canary Hotel to watch
the Santa Barbara sunset.

Showit Updated!

Tonight we launched an update to Showit to introduce a few new features and squash some minor bugs. If you haven't already... open up Showit and you should be prompted to install this latest update.

One of the new features added gives you the ability to control the latest galleries with any text or image you want to. Now you can advance the images in a gallery... advance the thumbnails... play... or pause... with whatever layer best fits your site. In the Link tab for any layer... check the Action radio button... match up the target with your thumb gallery and display area... choose the action for when the user clicks... and you're done!

In addition to that, we've also added some new options for the galleries. You can choose to hide the current thumb gallery controls if you're going to take advantage of the new options mentioned above. And you now have the ability to use a highlight color that will highlight the selected thumbnail and also highlight any thumbnail you mouse over.

Another feature added that will definitely speed up organizing your site is the ability to quickly add blank style groups and pages right from the pages panel. Make sure to right click on a style group in the pages panel and you'll see the new options in the displayed menu.

And here are some of the other things you'll be happy to know we've fixed:

• Scrolling bug for organizing lists of images in a gallery
• Background bug with style groups
• Scroll bar issues on smaller monitors
• Background editing on inherited backgrounds
• "Copy URL" uses HTML instead if deep linking for improved SEO results

We hope you enjoy this update and let us know if you run into any issues.

Thanks again!

Showit v2.0 Webinar in Espanol!

You read that right! Thanks to our good friend Rodolfo (Rudy) Arpia and all the photographers at Foro de Fotografia there will be a Showit v2.0 webinar in Spanish this Tuesday. This webinar will be hosted and moderated by Foro de Fotografia.

Espanol Showit v2.0 Overview
Date: Tuesday - August 4, 2009
Time: 6:00 pm PDT

Register by clicking on the button below.

Webinar Playback - New Gallery Features

Yesterday we had a great webinar on how the new Gallery Widgets really enhance the ability to customize your site. The new galleries offer much more flexibility in displaying your images with much less work. Here are a few highlights of the new galleries features.

• You can now have your page background within a Style Group feed from a gallery. This means if you want your background to transition while playing a slideshow you can do this with a single page, versus a bunch of pages.
• Display multiple galleries on the same page pulling from the same or different series of images. This is a nice feature to replace the traditional gallery launch page, allowing you to replace the static images with galleries.
  
• Seamlessly transition from gallery to gallery without the display area requiring a reload on your page. This creates a clean transition from gallery to gallery when viewing your website.
  

So make sure to check out the webinar and if you have more questions jump into Club Showit to join the Showit community.

View the Recorded Webinar

Also, keep an eye out for a Showit update that adds more features to the galleries widget coming soon. That update will include some cool features on embedding controls for the galleries. As always, software updates are free and will be included as soon as you confirm installing the new version.

Webinar Playback - Building a Client Site

We had a great webinar last Friday with over 50 people on how a photographer can build a client website from scratch! Thanks to everyone that joined in because we had some really great questions and interactions.

I realized after the webinar it probably was a misleading title as some of you had never used Showit. If you joined us and are new to Showit I'm sure you felt a little overwhelmed with how fast topics got covered, so I apologize for that. We do have some great Showit Tutorials you can watch that will guide you through how to setup your site.
For those that did not make the webinar you can watch it (and all of the webinars) via the Tutorials page.

View the Recorded Webinar

There were some requests to see the final published site created during the webinar so we've left that up to check out at www.jasminejd.showitsite.com.

Showit 2.0 Widgets Webinar Playback

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the Showit widgets webinar yesterday. We've uploaded the video to the Showit Tutorials for your viewing pleasure. If you have any questions on how to use the widgets this is a great new reference.

View the Recorded Webinar

We've added a cool new feature to the recorded webinars by including some markers for you to quickly reference specific material for play back. Note the arrows with text at the bottom of this screen shot.
Also, remember that we have another webinar tomorrow hosted by DJ on building a website from scratch. You can register here. We encourage everyone to join. Our example will be how a wedding photographer can quickly build a basic site for a bride and groom. This can be a great added service that you can include as part of unique offering to your customers. But we will be covering all the basics of starting a website from scratch, so if are not a photographer and you want to build a site but haven't started hopefully this will be a great opportunity get you started!

Register for Our Upcoming Showit Webinars!

We've had a chance to look through all the questions from the Showit v2.0 webinar last week. We really had such great participation and feedback! We're super thankful to have the best users who are passionate about Showit and want to be involved in making it better.

We have scheduled a few topic specific tutorials that we hope you will register for and find helpful. The schedule is below with a registration link. Unfortunately we won't be doing any tutorials on where you can get an ushanka...that one you'll have to figure out on your own.

Showit 2.0 Widgets Overview
Date: Wednesday - July 22, 2009
Time: 2:30 to 3:00 pm PDT
Join us for an overview on how to implement and configure the standard widgets included in Showit 2.0.

Click Here To Register

Showit 2.0 Building a Website from Scratch
Date: Friday - July 24, 2009
Time: 9:30 to 10:00 am PDT
Join us for an overview on how easy it can be to launch your website from scratch with Showit 2.0. We will cover the basics of getting your site launched with a custom look.

Click Here To Register

Showit 2.0 New Gallery Features
Date: Tuesday - July 28, 2009
Time: 9:30 to 10:00 am PDT
Join us for an overview on using and configuring the new gallery features in Showit 2.0 to maximize loading time and viewing options.

Click Here To Register

Showit 2.0 Updated Share Feature
Date: Thursday - July 30, 2009
Time: 9:30 to 10:00 am PDT
It's now easier than ever to share the content from your website with your blog, Facebook, and Twitter pages with Showit Share.

Click Here To Register

Interview with Dave Cross Online

We were pretty stoked when Dave Cross from dave cross online did a blog post about Showit, and then even more stoked when he asked to interview DJ on his blog. For those of you that don't know Dave he is the Director of Curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP), so he is a pretty smart guy...and he's a pretty nice guy.

You can check out the interview here.