Things are going prosperous at Viewbook. We get lot’s of new subscribers for the Standard and Pro accounts, lot’s of valuable feedback and we’ve got some exciting new plans.

The past months we’ve strengthened our company with a new lead developer and injected some funding to speed things up. Coming year Viewbook will enhance it’s tools to create an even more versatile image presentation platform for professionals. Besides optimizing the image manager, galleries and portfolio-page creator for general usage, we will develop specific features that further streamline the work-flow for professional photographers, designers and other visual artists. For example Aperture and Lightroom plugins, versatile download and export possibilities and more modular portfolio creation. All with the Simplicity, cleanliness and ease of use that Viewbook stands for. We cannot tell you everything yet, but you’ll see a lot of new things coming next year.

The first thing you can expect in February 2009 is a redesign and optimization of the Image Manager. We received a lot of feedback and gained new insights from the Usability tests done earlier this year. We are very Apple minded here at Viewbook and one thing we’ve learned is that Windows people are not used to drag & drop as much as Apple users are. Another example is that Windows people tend to use the right mouse button much more than Apple users do. Our goal is to support both kinds of people and so we will keep drag & drop and add right mouse functions and shortcuts.

Ok, that’s it for now, we’ll keep you posted on the progress of things next year. Thank you a lot to all the people who joined Viewbook in 2008, and have a great time the last days of December.

See you next year,
The Viewbook Team.