Viewbook, a complete features overview
List of NEW Viewbook features (as of April 2008)
Overall:
- Completely new rebuild, based on central webservice
- Improved speed, stability, completeness
- Even easier more user friendly interface
- Storage, you can choose for US / EU for faster image loading
- Better image resizing quality
- Finally upgrades for more capacity and functionality
Albums:
- Better performance and preloading
- Real time image resizing
- Navigation bar mini / large
- Navigation bar autohide
- navigation bar now at top or bottom
- Autoplay
- Direct reference to images
- Full size view (original size) with drag option to scroll image
- New Viewbook icon (will hide if you upgrade)
- Better embed code
Web pages (portfolio pages):
- Completely rebuilded this one
- You can now add more than one web page
- Change all styles (after upgrade)
- Custom logo (after upgrade)
- Three new thumb lay-outs (after upgrade)
- Search engine desription and keywords (after upgrade)
- Google analytics for visitor statistics (after upgrade)
- Custom domain name (after upgrade)
Image manager:
- Completely rebuild, to make it faster, more consistent
- More, better and faster drag & drop support
- Completeley new integration of web pages in main interface
- Changed: Removed Image Library to reduce complexity, Images can only be inside presentations
- Changed: Trash deletes images immediately, does not remember deleted images
- Easy deletion of presentations by drag & drop on trash
- Added upgrades section
- Optimized presentations style window
- Presentation & webpage link always available
- Filtering of presentation listing on: date, alphabet, ....
- Image rotating based on EXIF data when uploading
- New uploader with better status information
Help:
- Completely new help system
Forum:
- New forum
Website:
- New Viewbook website
List of Viewbook features (before march 2008)
The presentations
- fully scalable; large and mini version
- high quality image resizing
- preloading images while browsing
- title and description for the presentation and per image
- change background color
- advanced thumbnail scrollbar
- thumbnails, at the top, right, bottom or left
- hide or autohide thumbnails
- presentation bar with the following options: play slideshow, full screen, hide text, download image.
- fullscreen option
- embed in website or weblog
Added in New Viewbook version
- Better performance and preloading
- Real time image resizing
- Navigation bar mini / large
- Navigation bar autohide
- navigation bar now at top or bottom
- Autoplay
- Direct reference to images
- Full size view (original size) with drag option to scroll image
- New Viewbook icon (will hide if you upgrade)
- More compatible embed code
Embedding features
- very easy to embed in websites and weblogs
- fully scalable; large and mini version
- change size of embed
Web pages
- selected presentations
- your profile
- enable or disable portfolio page in the account settings
The image manager
Upload and organize your images in a simple and intuitive way in the image manager.
Batch upload
- select multiple images to upload
- upload progressbar
- support for .jpeg, .gif and .png file types
- 5 image versions including the original image
Drag & drop and multi-select
- drag & drop to sort images
- drag & drop to add images from presentation to presentation or library to presentation
- drag & drop to trash to delete images
- multiple select
Presentation options
- change presentation name and description
- disable public link to make presentation private
- edit image title and description
Presentation styles
- use one of the presets: album, portfolio, presentation or weblog
- change placement of thumbnails: top, right, bottom, left
- auto hide thumbnails
- display slideshow bar
- change background color
- show original image size in presentation, for websites and logo presentations
Share presentation
- e-mail presentation to multiple e-mail addresses
- copy/paste embed code for website or weblog
- get permalink for presentation
- get XML feed for presentation
Account settings
- change personal details and password
- manage public portfolio and profile pages