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Topic: Can't upload

yeah i am having the same trouble today- im guessing it has something to do with the site upgrades.

someone help?

Topic: Can't upload

Hello, I cannot upload anything, Status says ¨Failed¨

someone has experienced the same problem?

Topic: Problem - Login

I see you already solved it. A note for other people having this issue: you have to set your webpage as your homepage. Read here for more info about this: http://www.viewbook.com/support/Site/WebpagesHomepage

Topic: moving image within box on the webpages from page

This is a much requested feature. We’re in the progress of releasing an upgrade within a couple of days with a ‘cropping’ or ‘panning’ option for the images in your webpage. With this upgrade you can also choose a different first image. You’ll receive an e-mail when the new upgrade is online!

Topic: moving image within box on the webpages from page

Wondering if there is a way to move the photo around within the box after dropping the presentation into the webpage – the “Small”, “Wide” and “large” image size choices all leave the image cropped and chopped in funny place. Thanks!

Topic: Problem - Login

nobody can see my viewbook page because when opening my url (www.blu.viewbook.com) it appears the login page (http://viewbook.com/login/)

i can’t either see my photos if not logged in.

can anyone tell me what’s going on? is there any problem?

thank you!

Topic: Image Manager Not Loading Anything

Hey guys Really like viewbook and i was looking at starting an account but im having problems with the image manager not loading anything. like really nothing, just blank sections under “Presentations”, “No presentations” and “Selected image”. I already set up a presentation and it works a treat. (http://adrianlevett.viewbook.com/adrian). im using ie7 and have tried on another comuter with ie7 as well but nothing. i cant complain cause im no paying anything yet but would like to know whats happening and if i can fix it myself. thanks.

Topic: FF3 Mac Issue?

Hello, I am trying to embed a viewbook swf into my Wordpress (2.6) blog, and everything looks good except in FF3/Mac. I basically don’t see any Flash on the page. Has anyone else had issues with this?

Here is an example URL:

http://www.gregschultz.me/portfolio/philips-peapod-home-ultrasound/

Thanks!

Topic: Background to the album?

I agree totally! I like your product very much but it could be more versatile with background ability. Also the ability to move the captions to the top right, so it is more visible.

Topic: Florist Website

I just created a website for Delford West Flowers using viewbook. I’m happy with how it looks, and the client is happy that they can update their images as often as they’d like.

http://www.delfordwestflowers.com/index.html

Topic: Images not uploading!

You have to click ‘start upload’ after you selected the images.

Topic: Images not uploading!

I just signed up for viewbook to make a simple online portfolio. I click on upload images>browse images> Then I click on an image and press select….. and then nothing happens!! The file sizes are below 1MB and are jpeg format… Why is it not working????

Topic: Q2 High End Render Portfolio

Very nice, simple and effective!

Topic: Images gone

Here’s an explanation of this issue. http://forum.viewbook.com/forums/4/topics/92

We’re sorry for the downtime it caused.

Topic: Images not available july 20 -07-2008

Viewbook uses a service called S3 by Amazon to host the images you upload. At about 9:06 AM PDT their service experienced an outage that was affecting our service as well as thousands of other companies around the world that rely on the S3 service to host files. At 5:13 PM PDT all services were fully restored. All other data was available and all other functionality was running as normal.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

For more information visit: http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3eu-20080720.html

Topic: Q2 High End Render Portfolio

Just got my new website up and running with this cool viewbook tool. Enjoy!

Cheers Carsten

http://web.mac.com/carsten.quilitz/q2carsten/work_show.html

Topic: Images gone

You are right. Seems to be a server problem somewhere. On one of my mac’s I can load the pictures on the other one I can’t! Hope they can get this fixed asap.

Topic: Images gone

I think this may be a amazomaws.com problem, as I cannot view any viewbook site – even the ones on the Viewbook home page examples. Robert

Topic: Images gone

Well, re-uploading doesn’t do the trick either. Anyone any other ideas?

Topic: Images gone

Yepp, mine are gone too. And on my website it looks all messed up also! Did you try to re-upload your images?

Topic: Images gone

All my images have gone, after logging in, the presentations are still there but there are no images.

What is the correct way to fix this?, thanks Robert

Topic: Unavailability weekend of 14/15 March

Viewbook was not available from March 14th 16:00 CET to march 15th 15:00 CET because of some difficult to solve networking issues.

Traffic was not reaching a server on the other side of the US. Several parties, including our two hosting partners at Joyent and EngineYard worked together to solve this difficult issue. EngineYard & Joyentput a notice on their websites about it here: http://engineyard.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/possible-peering-issues-with-upstream-provider-level3/ https://help.joyent.com/index.php?pg=forums.posts&id=796

Finally Joyent and EngineYard came the conclusion that the problem had to do with some high-level internet parties somehow blocking the requests from the IP address of one of our servers. When Joyent assigned us a new IP address we were online in minutes again.

We want to make clear that this is absolutely beyond our scope and even our hosting parties.

Network problems can be very hard to tackle. “They’re usually something insane in a core router somewhere that you can’t get to and don’t know who to contact about it, and the diagnostic tools you’ve got to work with rarely give unequivocal results.” says our man at EngineYard.

Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.

Topic: Price too high

Hi Alberto, Thanks a lot for your feedback.

About the price, I understand your comments about this. It would probably be great for a large bunch of people if we could lower the price of Viewbook.

But consider this:

At this moment we give 100 images for free and almost all the Viewbook features.

We’re not Flickr (which is actually Yahoo!). Which is, as you know, a very large company. We’re not.

Flickr shows ad’s on their site, we’re not. That’s why Flickr can lower their price.

If you buy a package tool, you need to host it yourself. That would cost, let’s say $5 for hosting/month, $1.5 for the package/month, plus let’s say $1 a month for your domainname. That makes at least a total of $7.5 a month, if you get it cheap!

You can’t instantly change your images then, because you have no Image Manager like Viewbook. So add that to the total price and you see that you soon get near or over $12/month.

Indeed, Viewbook is designed for professional use, people have no problems to pay when it saves them time, or give other advantages in their profession or business.

We’re thinking about making Viewbook more accessible to a broader audience. Thanks again for your feedback, and to all, let us know what you think.

BTW: The Standard account is $12/month, not €12/month, which makes, €7.6/month.

Topic: Price too high

I’m not always on the photo business, so… I love doin’ it, I love Viewbook, and I’d love to get the Standard contract

But I’d pay for it 12,xx euros per year, not per month. Actually, for Viewbook I’d switch the money of my Flickr Pro account – but not more

Until now, you give me cool features, ok, but, don’t take me wrong… it’s a photoshow. For less than that money I can buy a package tool (let’s name http://www.monoslideshow.com/, eg) to achieve a very similar result

On the contrary, I’m giving you visibility from my blog (and from Flickr too! see http://www.flickr.com/photos/hexholden/sets/72157604520334049/) – let’s not say the content

I understand that your core business is about professional photography – that’s great. The Pro is not for me, but it’s great. I’m suggesting that for the “pro-am” user the trade-off is not balanced. The features of the Basic account are too restricted, the price of the Standard is too high

IMHO, of course

Best, Alberto

Topic: Viewbook Goals, Activities and Tasks

I’m a three year user of Flickr, and actually tired of that system remaining always the same. I love the stream over there, but they don’t offer high level, good looking quality presentation tools like you do – hey, did I told you that I love Viewbook? :)

I embed single presentations in blog posts, and used a portfolio to create a visual story. And would like the upload feature directly in Picasa, with an automatic resize option (I usually publish 800×533)

I’m an amateur photographer, but a professional journalist. So I’m not in the business of selling photos. But I’d like to enter: I received requests for publication via Flickr a number of times. So I need a system to… be contacted :D