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| Screenshot of the new gallery home page |
It's new, and yes, it's shiny shiny !!
YES ! - After almost 13 years we have changed where the Sussex Sport Photography Gallery is stored on the internet. It's been an 18 month project to source, test, design, agree and set up the new gallery - which is now complete with all the events from 2016.
You can find it here: Gallery.SussexSportPhotography.com
(NB This is just the gallery changing place - the www.SussexSportPhotography.com homepage is still the same)
And we have today (Thursday) changed where the internet points - so that all the old web addresses will send visitors to the new gallery - so http://Gallery.SussexSportPhotography.com so really, nothing much has changed in terms of finding your photos, but so much has in reality !
So several things you should know:
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| The start of the RPAC Holly Run 2016 |
http://sspimg.com/RPAC-HollyRun-Gallery-2016
And now - Everything you ever wanted to know about the new gallery:
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| Discount code until Boxing Day - NEWSSP50 |
1. NEW GALLERY DISCOUNT OFFER
As a special introduction to the new gallery we have for you a special 50% discount code, valid until Boxing Day: NEWSSP50
use this at the checkout in the coupon code box - in the order summary.That moment you wanted to get a friend their photo - here's that chance for you - and to get an easy Christmas present for them. Don't get caught out without something for your friends - you can easily order one on your mobile whilst you're at that party or bar or Christmas meal and send it to them during the evening. It's that easy now !
It is a completely new gallery - so you will need to register with it as a completely new user - your previous accounts are still safe on the Thirdlight gallery (and you can check that here if you need to on antbliss.thirdlight.com because we are still keeping that live just in case it all goes Pete Tong)- but that is that gallery and this is this gallery - so you have to register all new. Sorry about that - it's a Data protection thing, for your protection.
By the way, for various reasons the website doesn't add VAT until it knows where the customer lives and has to adjust that accordingly - (one reason is the EU directive on digital sales, but less on that eh?). We have adjusted all our prices that are shown so that the final price is almost exactly the same as they were on the previous gallery. Prices have been about the same since 2008. Not bad value really, we should have put them up 50% at least in the past 8 years... but I digress.
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| yes - we take PayPal now ! |
We now use PayPal to complete checkout payments - which means we can take all payment cards where you don't need a paypal account, (and yes, even Amex too) or you can pay with PayPal accounts - which makes things super easy and quick.
3. Lightboxes
Light what ? - if you have an account on the new gallery you can create your own custom folders of images which are stored under your account details. This means - when you come back to the gallery - voila ! they are still all stored there for you.
It will make it easy for you to create your own collections from races we cover for you, or perhaps even your friends or team mates. You can also share these with friends so they can see your favourites too, or they can add theirs into them so you can have a collective folder together and store your fab favourites - and then know what to buy for each other !So give the lightboxes feature a try out.
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| The latest colourful watermark with licensing information included for free |
4. Improved image security
This probably isn't the news that a great many of our gallery viewers wanted to hear - but the new gallery has much better protection against image theft (even with the unlicensed watermarks on), which hopefully on the up-side means we will have less reports from Facebook about unlicensed use and accounts being closed for breaking FB terms and conditions. Nobody likes that !
5. Fully Searchable with your race number
Yes, all the gallery cataloguing we do using the race numbers (which is a massive task after every event) is still valid for all our galleries - so you can just use the search box at the top of every gallery to search by your race number and find your photos.
One word of caution - if you do click all the way down to a subfolder of an event - you will only be searching the subfolder of that event - so make sure you search at the top level for your event.
6. Instant Large digital file downloads and permanent Order History
on you user account so you can just log in again to get them if you need to.
Yes all digital orders are permanently stored against your user account details - so if you ever need to come back and get them (when your hard drive dies and you don't have a backup - this happens to our customers much more often than you would think) - then they should all be stored nice and safe for you to come and get them again !7. Custom Crop your prints
how you want to - yes - in the order basket - you can select how you want your prints to be cropped - so if you don't like that shot with Mo Farrah's arm flapping on the edge of your shot at the finish line, crop your print to fit accordingly and voila !!
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| no it's not an Advent calendar - it's the new simple gallery browsing page - just pick an archive year to reveal the chocolate |
8. Easy to navigate by Year and Month
Our new visual gallery layout, with years and months in a simple nested layout - as long as you can remember roughly when your event was - you can navigate to it and find what you want - gone are the distant days of squinting at a list trying to find your event as tiny text.
If you're feeling particularly brave, you can even search at the top level of the gallery with a key event word and your race number to see all your photos - without even having to click to the event itself - how good is that ?!
And yes - you see a lot more years listed there - not all the galleries are loaded behind them - but there are lists of what happened in those years - so if you need an event reloaded from as far back as 2004 - we can now do that for you ! If you want to see how slim and handsome you were 10 years ago - we have all that for you too, just a few days upload away.
You will also see that all of 2015 gallery is uploaded on our other archive gallery
9. Easy Facebook Sharing
If you like your photos and want to show your friends that you were out and about doing things at the weekend - as quickly as possible - then have some cure for your FOMO and use the Facebook Share button at the top of each page - and instantly get a thumbnail with a direct link to your photo on the gallery - on your Facebook Timeline.
10. Easy URL link sharing
If you want to just copy a web address URL and share it with someone - it will now work (and it was one of the annoying design problems with the old gallery when this didn't happen, we have been trying for years to solve that one).
And even more clever - you can even share a search URL with a friend - so they can see all your search results easily too.
11. Event Webmasters
You can put a gallery search box to your specific event gallery directly onto your webpage - making it a great integrated user experience for your runners. It's even possible to code search URL's into results so a single click on a results list takes someone to their results - it can't get any simpler...
and here's how http://gallery.sussexsportphotography.com/page2
12. When you've had a good look and used the discount code
Please do us a survey and tell us how it worked for you ! - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TZ9YZ7B
And now some photos from The Holly Run for you to enjoy
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| Heavy Mist hung over the race at 10:30am for the biggest race of the day - the U11 boys run |
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| Excellent finishing by Number 1 |
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| By the second race at 10:50am, the fog had lifted completely |
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| The Morhens didn't much care for the races as the pond steamed off |
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| 12 starters in the under 15 boys race. Not good enough frankly. Where were you all eh ? This needs sorting out !! |
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| Fresh from his intercounties race the day before, Felix smashed the field apart |
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| Always good to see a strong effort at the finish - Walton AC turned out in force |
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| Everything was going well for Murray |
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| Hello from the woods |
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| Double thumbs up in the depths of the darkness |
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| Good to see some fancy dress on the course enjoying the fun |
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| Another years running is over and the relief is palpable |
So enjoy the discount code as an early Christmas present from us all here at SSP, and enjoy viewing through the last years images and please complete the survey and give us some feedback so we can improve it even more for you !
Please do us a survey and tell us how it worked for you ! - https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/TZ9YZ7B
Until next time - which will be New Years Eve at the Longmoor Brutal - see you there ? and burn off some guilt before the new years eve party, somewhere down the A3 ?
Anthony, Sally, Tony, Hayley, Rosanna, Paul, Mike, Hannah, Ben.
