Recent improvements on creative.ly
We geek like mad, and it bears fruit. Behold, a mountain of scrumptious improvements.
- Collections
- Favorites, Imports, and Created: Each user has three collections.
- Favorites: Items no longer go into your favorites collection automatically. You have to explicitly put something in your favorites collection for it to go there. To add something to your favorites collection, either drag and drop it, or click on the "Collect to Favorites" link to the upper right of any item being viewed large.
- Imports: When you import an image, it does not automatically go into your favorites collection anymore. Instead, it goes into your imports collection.
- Created: When you import an image that you created, check the "I created this" checkbox, and it will show up in this collection.
- Viewing all of your collections: This is not new, but to view all of any user's collections, click on that user. Or to view your own, click on "My Media"
- Lightning fast speed: We continue to strive for making sure the site is as fast as is technically possible.
- Started Creative.ly contest: Make a picture that says "creative.ly". click here.
- Improved search results: Collections do not show in search results uness they have two or more items. The empty collections that were showing up in search results were annoying. Browsing through collections is no fun.
- Nudity/not safe for work filter: There is now a Safety Filter (in the upper right corner) that can be turned on or off. click here.
- When importing content, specify if nudity: There is now a checkbox for specifying if there is nudity when importing an image.
- Improved flow
- An explanatory banner image: Image bookmarking can be confusing to somebody who has not experienced it before. On the homepage, for someone who is not logged in, there is now a banner.
- Improved about page: Aiming to explain how the site is used in a sensical way. click here.
- An explanatory page for creators: This site is intended for photographers and artists. There is now a page and graphic to explain this. click here.
- Better instructions for installing the bookmarklet: (with videos) click here.
- Better instructions for Internet Explorer: (with videos) click here.
- A "ways to have fun" page: click here.
- Communication
- Specifically for photographers and artists:
(Some of these are also listed elsewhere) - An explanatory page: click here.
- An "I created this" checkbox when importing
- An "I created" collection: If you check the "I created this" when importing an image, it shows up in the collection of items you created. Click on your "My Media" page in the upper right to view.
- Click directly to the source site: Clicking on the larger version of an image takes the user directly to where the image originally came from.
- Expect more! There will be more tools coming to help creators manage creations.
- Browse or search by Image, Collection, or Person: At the top of the home page or search page, you can now specify image, collection, or person.
- Pictures with your profile: If you login with a social network, it will use your picture from that social network. If you login directly, you can register your e-mail address with gravatar.com . click here.
- Some of the bugs that were fixed: Just to list a few of em.
- Importing when not logged in yet: This used to lose the information. Now it remembers the information after you've logged in.
- Better looking forms: The forms have more obvious submit button, gray text under the fields, styled the better when required fields are not entered, etc.
- Works better with Internet Explorer: A number of problems with IE were fixed.
- Fixed the glitch with collecting collections using their title: Dragging and dropping the title of the collection now works on all major browsers.
- Tons of other small fixed
