After two years of hard work, collecting feedback from our users, and taking a good look at the market, we’ve learned a lot. Many things happened on the web as well; the release of the iPhone and iPad, the explosive growth of Facebook, Twitter, etcetera. All good motives for us to work on our strategy during the last summer. This resulted in a clear vision about how we are going forward with our company and product. We’re presenting this vision buy cialis early this year with the release of a completely new Viewbook website, and identity that tells our story much better. I can already say it looks and feels great!
iPad portfolio app
We’re also really excited about the release of our iPad portfolio app, also early this year. To everyone without an iPad, get one! This app truly transforms your iPad into a beautiful, digital portfolio.
New features and website editor
‘What about all the existing feature requests?’ I hear you ask? Our next adventure and largest project until now has already started; we’re designing and building a completely new website editor, from the ground up. Adding many new features you’ve requested: video page formats, social media integration, many new design options, custom fonts and more flexible layouts. Many of your requests will be integrated into this release. Of course we’ll keep you posted through our blog along the way. Keep an eye out!
It has now been two years since we’ve started our company in 2009. We grew extensively and have won several awards, a huge motivator to keep putting more time and energy into continually improving our product. We’re also very happy with all the feedback we’ve received from our users both positive and negative, feature requests and all the other ideas. Many thanks for your input, it truly does make Viewbook better.
Thank you again for all the support and for choosing Viewbook.
Two big feedback items for me if they are not on your list:
1. Better captioning options. Instead of clicking on more for a caption make so you can read it under or over the top of the length of the photograph. Also, more options as to where you can place caption info on the page. Please design the tools so you don’t have to crop into the pictures with a caption, as well.
2. It would be great if the IPTC data (caption info especially) would transfer over on uploading of photos. Having to copy paste caption info takes a lot of extra time.
Comment by Troy Wayrynen — January 16, 2011 @ 3:46 am
Thank you all for all the wonderful work you’ve done to make viewbooks an easy to use and flexible design to feature our images.
I really love it and really like that we can give direct feedback from you. I don’t know if there is any other photography website service quite like this.
I’ll throw my two cents in and would love to see the IPTC auto take captions myself. and perhaps plug ins to upload to viewbook right from aperture or lightroom.
Keep up the great work!
Comment by Traci Walter — January 16, 2011 @ 10:39 pm
IPTC support is definitely in the pipeline. Will move it higher on our list. Thanks a lot for the feedback much appreciated.
Comment by Rien // Viewbook.com — January 17, 2011 @ 2:18 pm
Bravo on the updates. And I agree, photos are made much more interesting with easy-to-see caption info. Happy 2011!
Comment by Jason — January 17, 2011 @ 9:26 pm
Good news for the new year! Thanks for the great work!
We love Viewbook! but needs more flexibility. I look forward for the new update!
Personally I will like to see a plugin for Aperture. Lightroom off course and perhaps some Capture One users there. Also menus with subcategories will be great! IPTC yes!!!
Thanks guys
Comment by Salva — January 19, 2011 @ 12:51 am
We have an Adobe Lightroom3 plugin. It can de downloaded here: http://www.viewbook.com/tools. Thanks.
Comment by Rien // Viewbook.com — January 19, 2011 @ 9:33 am
Thank you for the great news, but when exactly can we expect to see and use the new features? we have been waiting for video page formats for some time now… could you please give some dates?
Comment by Benedikt — January 19, 2011 @ 3:42 pm
good job done yet !
To do even better you should allow batch edit on picture’s caption and title… it’s so long to edit one by one when needed ;)
Bravo for last updates and bug correction.
Comment by Ed — January 19, 2011 @ 8:24 pm
I have just completed the first version of my website, I am quite happy with it but it would be great if there was more flexibility on things like text formatting in different places on the website templates. In terms of the mobile device apps, the really key thing is to have offline and a really sexy look for the album to impress client friends and familyit would be great to be able synchronise the albums across a number of different social networking sites flickr, Facebook to minimise the manual maintenance work. I love the upload from light room. Really looking forward to the new ideas going live, keep up the good work. Andy Hood
Comment by Andrew Hood — January 19, 2011 @ 8:36 pm
I’m happy to hear Viewbook keeps expanding it’s offerings. Since I’ve been using it, the sites have really improved in many ways.
But I do find the layouts very limiting, and customizing via even simple html code to be unreliable (just trying to create a contact page the code gets distorted). More layout options would be phenomenal, and maybe a css/html editor?
Love what you guys are doing, so hopefully some more customizable features will be added so that my site can grow at the same time as my business.
Comment by Grace — January 19, 2011 @ 10:42 pm
Thanks for all the positive feedback. Much appreciated.
@Benedikt – When is always a not so easy to answer question. As you can read we are going to completely rebuild the website editor from scratch. This will take a while. Expect a month or 4/5 from now.
@Andrew – Flickr + Facebook exporting of image will be released soon, in a couple of weeks.
@Grace – Yes the message is clear. That’s why we’re going to rebuild the pages editor to make it possible to add new features more easily, and allow more flexibility in design, including custom HTML/CSS. However it will take a while before this is ready. It’s a very complex project.
@all – Definitely going to improve caption editing. Thanks for all your feedback about this.
Thanks!
Comment by Rien // Viewbook — January 20, 2011 @ 12:12 pm
And … we will continue with our regular updates and improvements, so you can expect new things every couple of weeks or so. Thanks.
Comment by Rien // Viewbook — January 20, 2011 @ 12:13 pm
Can not wait for the Viewbook iPad portfolio app! Have loved Viewbook for years and I can’t wait to see what you do with an iPad app for portfolios. The current iPad apps for portfolio presentation lack a sense of refinement and functionality that I’m sure you’re going to get right. I’ve been using my iPad as my portfolio (I’m an art director + graphic designer) for the past few months and have booked a bunch of jobs off of it… people are totally digging it more than I would have even thought for such a usage.
Comment by Alexander Wolf — January 20, 2011 @ 7:16 pm
@Alexander Great to hear the iPad works so well as a portfolio for you. I’m very exited about this new platform, and very curious how our new iPad app will be used. We will start simple and based on all your feedback improve the app further to make it the perfect portfolio app for your iPad. Thanks.
Comment by Rien // Viewbook — January 21, 2011 @ 12:33 pm
Really looking forward to the new video page formatting, as well as all the other improvements that are coming.
Thanks for listening to and implementing our feedback.
Comment by Gregory Leno — January 26, 2011 @ 9:25 pm
Ditto on Troy Wayryne’s comment. The captioning for the albums are not very good in this new version. Please add a larger box in the bottom of albums with font style, size, color, and positioning options instead of ‘read more’ that obscures the photo when displayed.
Thanks!
Comment by Arshia — February 8, 2011 @ 9:08 pm
I think it’s great what you guys are doing. What I hope for is more layout customization. That is the ultimate attraction for me as I’d like to stand out from the crowd. At this point I’m not sure I want to sign up for good. Some of the major sites that provide site designs allow full screen images with logo and quick navigation. Hope to see more fresh updates soon.
Comment by Gene — February 9, 2011 @ 4:12 pm
We’re working on it Gene, but it takes time to make things really good. Great thanks for all your feedback, we’ve already started!
Comment by Rien // Viewbook — February 10, 2011 @ 8:49 am
IPTC Title field would be great.
Comment by Fred — June 14, 2012 @ 11:21 pm