LayerSpace Blog

New feature! You can now hide an image gallery

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:50:49 +0000

We have been busy beavering away on new features and we have added the facility to hide an image gallery and show it again by a single click of a button. This is in response to several requests from our customers. To access the facility, just click the image galleries tab, followed by hide or unhide.

We have also added an option to change the size of the image that is shown when choosing purchase options. The choice is for a thumbnail image or a full size image. This is in response to a customer’s comment that the large image could be saved to the desktop and used nefariously. To access this option, click the lightbox/passwords tab and change the image to show option in the centre column.

We strive constantly to improve our system and welcome feedbackk and suggestions from our customers, so if you have any requests or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

LayerSpace tops Google search for websites for photographers!

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 15:52:52 +0000

We are very pleased to see that a Google search for ‘websites for photographers’ (on Google.co.uk – we’re 5th at google.com) produces a rather attractive result with us at Numero Uno! We have reached this exalted status by virtue of you the visitor coming to us when you need a photography website to show your images online. Of course we would also extrapolate from this that it is because we are the number one choice for photography websites!

We have had a slight hiccup in our continuing quest to improve and update our services due to the fact that our head honcho has broken his ankle, but he should be out of the cast in 3 weeks so we expect to be back on track very soon.

On the agenda are new templates, both Flash and HTML, as well as a built in HTML version of every website. This will improve SEO and allow visitors using an iPad to see your site if you use a Flash template, which Steve Jobs at Apple has decided for some reason are not worth looking at. Obviously we disagree but we will strive to ensure that this does not affect visitors to the websites we provide!

iPhone mirror site now online

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:07:16 +0000

We have just added an iPhone specific version of every LayerSpace website. Some people had commented that their site was not visible on an iPhone because iPhones do not show Flash, so now if your visitors are browsing using Apple’s rather nice gadget they will see a site just for them. Try it out – take a look at your site now.

Coming soon:
We are working on an HTML mirror site to improve the SEO of our customers who choose a Flash template. This will automatically show an HTML version of your site to visitors who do not have Flash installed, and it will also be visible to search engines so you will have the best of both worlds!

LayerSpace wins 5 stars in Digital Photo Magazine test!

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:51:01 +0000

We are very proud to have received the full 5 stars for ease of use in the recent group test of photography website systems carried out by Digital Photo Magazine. This endorses our belief that a comprehensive website need not be difficult to maintain and validates all the hard work we have put in to ensure our admin system is probably the easiest to use anywhere.

In the test, Michael Topham wrote:
“Uploading images was extremely quick thanks to the multiple image uploader, and you can drag and drop images in the order you’d like them to appear. The interface is very easy to get to grips with as it’s clear and simple, and there are useful help notes so you know how options affect your site.”

We couldn’t have put it better ourselves!

Meta data now retained in jpeg uploads

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:21:19 +0000

We have added a feature which will attempt to copy basic meta data embedded in jpeg images when they are uploaded. The data copied concerns Ownership and copyright of the image.

Where to find the File info

To edit the data for an image before uploading it, you can use Photoshop’s File Info viewer (see image, left)

Then go to File->File Info->IPTC->(scroll down to the bottom of the page)->IPTC status

Information which can be edited and will be copied is:
Title, Identifier, Instructions, Provider, Source, Copyright Notice (see image – click to enlarge)

This information is helpful if trying to establish whether someone has stolen your images.

Where to edit the IPTC information in Photoshop

New Template launched!

admin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:34:17 +0000

We are pleased to announce the launch of another template – Infinity Centre. It is a similar design to Infinity but has a centred logo and navigation. try it out and see how you like it!

Background Image tutorial

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:13:52 +0000

How to prepare images to use as a background for your website.
Click the link under ‘pages’ on the right

New HubSpace template designs

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:26:33 +0000

We have added a couple of new template designs for use on your HubSpace. They have the menu links on the left in order to match some of the main templates.

Slideshows are here!

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:20:31 +0000

In response to several requests from our customers we have introduced a slideshow option for the home page of your website(s).
You can add this feature to any homepage which is set to use an image gallery – just click the homepage tab when editing a Space to see the options which allow you to set the time delay between images changing.

Revised gallery images

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:35:43 +0000

We have revised the way that images are loaded into galleries. You are no longer limited to a set number of images in each gallery. Instead you have a maximum number of images in each Space and these can be loaded into galleries in the ratio that you choose. This means you can have one gallery with all your images in it, or two galleries with half each, or one gallery with 5 images and all the other images in another gallery. This seems a fairer way to let you use the maximum number of images.