This is just a short message to inform you, in the midst of the summer holidays (I just came back from a short holiday at the west-coast of Italy), about recent things we’re working on at Viewbook.

This August we’re going to release another great overhaul of Viewbook. Based on your feedback and new insights we will release new features, better help pages and a completely new improved product website. Some of the new features include: cropping and positioning of images (finally!), new embed configuration options, more font options and the possibility to backup your presentation images into a .zip file. There’s lots of new stuff coming!

We’re also working on a Viewbook ‘Experts’ network to enrich communication with our users in many countries. We already have some great people supporting us in Belguim, France, England and The United States. We’ll post a message as soon as we’re requesting for new participants.

If you have any ideas or wishes that would make Viewbook a better tool for you, let us know by posting your ideas in the Viewbook forums here.

For now, enjoy the summer, and we’ll keep you posted.

With 100,000 objects dating from ancient times to the present, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is the largest art museum in the western United States. For one of their current exhibitions LACMA uses Viewbook to show a selection of art works from Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters. You can visit the the LACMA page here.

Today we pushed some Image Manager optimizations online, together with a new Share feature. You can now share your Viewbook galleries almost everywhere. With just a few clicks you can embed your gallery in Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress and 20 other platforms I did not even know the existence of. It’s quite amazing how fast you have your gallery posted in your Blogger web site.

The new Share feature can also automatically bookmark your Viewbook gallery to Del.icio.us, StumbleOpon, Twitter and 30 others.

Just click the ‘Share’ button on top of your presentation to get started. Happy sharing!

The public Viewbook presentations were not available in the weekend of 14/15 March, because of network problems. You can read more at our System Status forum here.

With Viewbook it’s possible to create multiple web pages. Web pages are portfolio or project pages that bundle your presentations, to make them available to the public.

The new web page style settings allow you to adjust the page to your specific needs. You can choose the image size (small, wide and large), background color, hide or add a custom logo, and more. We’ve added a brand new tutorial to our support section; Create and Customize Portfolio Pages to get you going and which shows you all the available options.

If you want to try all of this you can upgrade to the Standard or Pro account and try it one month for free. Login to your account and go to the ‘account’ tab and choose ‘upgrades’.

To show you what you can do with those style settings see the examples below.

wide images, white background, default font | open example

wide images, black background, no-logo | open example

large images, dark blue background, Serif font | open example