BubbleSites are Go (and a few other odds and ends)
Hello,
Grant has been working on the BubbleSites for months now – and he’s keen to see the fruits of his hard work out there on the ‘Internets’.
So today we’re taking the wrap off the BubbleSites and making it generally available. The thinking behind the BubbleSites is to provide you with a very clean, simple personal gallery website. Your BubbleSite is free of anyone else’s branding or artwork, and you control the content.
The BubbleSites are one small step towards our vision for RedBubble. We can’t possibly hope to do everything for everyone with one website, so we’re looking to make RedBubble more flexible. We want to allow people to use RedBubble in different ways. Some folks want to use RedBubble as a place to send their customers. With the current website your customers land on a profile page, but there’s lots of distractions. BubbleSites provide a much more focused experience, for those who want it.
We’re still doing lots of work on the BubbleSites, so expect to see more changes in the near future. In particular we’re working right now on giving people the ability to change the background color. If you’ve got any feedback or suggestions please wander over to the feedback forum and type away.
This week we’ve also made some small changes elsewhere on RB.
- Images in challenges are no longer cropped (our challenge software is currently under beta testing – see here for a few example challenges).
- For those with a technical mind we’ve embedded hidden copyright information into every large image displayed on RedBubble – this means that if somone downloads a large image off RedBubble it can always be traced back to you. By default we’ve inserted your name and profile URL into each image, but you can change this on your edit profile page (down towards the bottom of the screen).
That’s it for this week – thanks Grant for all your hard work! Here’s a picture of the man (and my favorite Grant t-shirt):
Cheers,


Ravenor
Fantastic!!
Mel Brackstone
Cooool!!!!!!!!! Thanks Redbubble, and thanks Grant!
MagnusAgren
sweet.. sounds exciting thanks RB team
AlexMac
Brilliant work Guys and Gals You Rock !!!!
Matt Mawson
Much appreciated !
mrcool
great work peter keep it up mate,
ryan munson
wow! nice work redbubble. thanks.
kimbaross
Fabulous.
SnowDog
Why are the comment boxes now narrower????
Stephen Rowsell
buy Grant a pint for me! Loving how the bubblesites are shaping up!
Angela Stewart
Excellent…this is exactly what I was needing, thanks Grant!
Rosalie Dale IPA
Great work!
John Conway
yes, I like it
thanks for all the (hard) work
zomboy
choice aey bro!
Retta
Right ON
Shannon Rene' ...
freaking awesome! love the added copyright protection! kudos to redbubble!
Gary L. Suddath
Great job.One of the things I like about the bubblesite is is short URL its something someone, seeing, could remember without writing it down.At least long enough to get to where they could.
salsbells69
Thanks RB:)) and Grant :D
kvalle
AWESOME work…... thans so much
ChainmailChick
Yay!
Anthony Comella
Thank You – You all are Tops!!!
TextureoftheSin
Thanks Grant – you rock :)
Thansk RedBubble – you rock too!
lex7
Perfect timing… I was just contemplating my own site…
Mary Aleckson
Appreciate the hard work
frogster
Thanks
Richard G Witham
Thank you for all the hard work you guys put into this site … for all of us to benefit from. Bravo!
zoompix
Great work , thanks folks
SkyFox
Yooooo Whoooo!
bamagirl38
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You all rock !!!!!!!!!!
EnPassant
Can’t wait to see the numerous inventive ways our fellow RedBubblers will utilise this resource… Many thanks Grant for all your hard work.
BrainCandy
Well done RB, can’t wait to have a play!
butchart
i’ve had my betasite up for a couple weeks now.. it’s a wonderful addition…. now it’s so much easier to get to and tweak…... great job guys… thank you so much….............b
Larissa Brea
Brilliant!
lacitrouille
Thank you very much for all that fabulous work!
peter kelly
fabulous idea and setup, thanks RB and all involved, congrats!!!
thelotuspress
Thanks, sounds great!
aphoto4you
great job!!!!!
Stephen Permezel
Truly Awesome!!! You guys are fantastic!
Tom Godfrey
Thanks team – fantastic! You guys are Cyber Superheroes
bev langby
Cool bananas u guys ROCK
D R Moore
Great Work Grant Thank You ,This is a great addition to the Bubble,a great big thumbs up
Jing3011
Thanks for always trying to improve the site.
Jane Keats
It’s amazing!
It’s fantastic!
Wherever there is artwork you’ll be there!
Redbubble
Redbubble!
You are clever, you’re amazing, you’ve got flare!!
Reeedbuuubble….....Reeeddbubbblllle…....RREEEDDDBUUBBBBLLLLE!!
Eyeleen
Fantastic….you all are the Bom.com!!!!!!!!!
Joanne Bradley
Well Done RB!
Can anyone tell me if there is one reference place I can find all the information to set up my own BubbleSite?
Paul McClintock
great work on the bubblesites!
MuscularTeeth
go the RB team !
Jan Piller
Oh good news!!
Cathie Tranent
Thanks!! ;)
Craig 'has a n...
Some images are unavailable to upload to the sites :(
any idea why?
Michelle Legg
This is very exciting!!
Thanks to Grant and RedBubble for making this happen. I can’t wait to start to use it.
debsphotos
Thanks for all your hard work guys!!! It all very much appreciated!!! *-)
J.Harris Black...
RedBubble is the Bomb! Thanks Grant!~
binjy
Sounds good :) thankyou.
Julian Escardo
Thnx for keeping us informed!,....
Hop Dac
Craig, only images that are for sale can be put up on the bubblesites.
jep983
Great idea!!! :)
Mundy Hackett
Grant is the man! Thank you Grant!
dragonsnare
Love it when I saw it and set up a site. Sure hope this will make things more accesable.
Dawne Olson
SWeet!! This looks great… I’m excited to try it out.
Pat Moore
Great work Grant!!!!
Kathie Nichols
Thanks for the updates, wow, this site is awesome, you’re doing a great job guys & gals!!!! Very exciting all these new happenings :)
RLHall
Great work RB, Thanks!
Cyndianne
This is wonderful, I can’t believe how quickly and efficiently you guys get things happenin’
Amandalynn Jones
This is FABULOUS you guys, rock on.
Sandra Chung
Wow, that has got to be the easiest and smoothest ‘gallery’ setting up I have ever experienced! Good job RB!
Diesel Laws
AWESOME! And so easy to use! GOOD ON YOU RB! And thankyou for helping me turn a profit with my designs!
Maria Dryfhout
Just checked out my site…. looking good thanx to you, RedBubble!!
Tim Andrew
nice….
Janis Zroback
I have started…I love it….just need some colour for the background now and it’s done…Thank you RB…
Estelle O'Brien
Thanks for your hard work Grant…t’s a great idea.
RiSH :
Thank you so much RedBubble.
rightasrain
Really happy you put the “View Your Site” link up in the gallery now. That sure helps. And thanks for the embedded hidden copyright info for each image. Fantastic! :
) :)Paul Lindenberg
Hey, I’m on it. When do we start? :-)
Steve D
Great work, played around with it and love the layout
Cassie Gannon
Awesome!!
Rosalie Scanlon
Keep up the good work, nice changes.
coppertrees
Great Job, keep it up
James Nielsen
Love it! Keep up the great work!
Kenny Gulley Jr.
awesome! but how do i get back to manage my stuff?
melodious
brilliant – the bubblesites look so good!!! thank you!
ltruskett
‘Bubble Bubble toil and trouble’..................... Well not really….........thanks guys for all your hard work….........we LOVE OUR BUBBLE.
Marilyn Harris
Wonderful!! Thank You!!!
Tania Rose
Ah, we love you!
Can0n
Great! Thank you all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)))))
Jo Hoden "C'...
Hugs :)xxxx
Tom Vaughan
excellent news! thanks,Grant!
Dani Dreyer
Wow, exciting!!
Rebecca Lee
Awesome! Wondering when you guys would do something like this!
Thanks a billion! :)
PennyEdwardes
YAY!!! Thankyou so much…you guys are fabuluos!
Paul Stephen ...
Nice it s great to be able to put my work in different categories and include a c.v. , and it was quick and easy to set up the site.
However a prayer and that is a navigation menu within the individual pages especially,gallery pages for easy navigation, back and forth.
Thanks for all yr hard work. Paul
lightsmith
sounds great!
Joy Engelman
Good onya RB! I know a lot of artists will be over the moon to have the ability to have a website. Many of them miss out due to lack of web design skills and it is still so expensive to get someone to build a site!
Larry Varley
This is fun, more toys to play with, I’m enjoying this
MrTim
Thanks guys! You are all geniuses and rock our worlds! :-)
KarmaPolice7
This is a dream come true! RB here I come :)
najeroux
Thank you for Bubblesite shaped love.
najeroux
Lenka
Good work!

LisaB entity
awesome
Jen Whyte
Great work!
BizziLizzy
Thanks for all your hard work, much appreciated. x
raymondo
I,ll have some of that. Great news, great work.
Kathryn Potempski
wonderful news I have been hanging out for the go ahead, thanks for all the hard work guys
jussta
Great work guys, I love BubbleSites!
jacqi
well done all of you, I can’t believe all the work that goes into this site
Rebecca Brann
Thanks guys!!
pictorials :)
you guys are hard working vegimites, thanks grant and co
a very cool idea:)
MDossat
Way to go Grant and RB. You rock!
A90Six
Thank you so much. Only yesterday I e-mailed a friend saying that I was going to have to knock the photography on the head for a couple of weeks so I could set up my own website to promote my art. I had intended to link to RedBubble for sales.
I wake up this morning to find you have done it all for me!
It’s so easy to set up and use (not too sure how to re-name set if you mess up).
I thank you and my camera thanks you (I don’t have to put it away now!)
Tony (A90Six)
Alison Jane Rice
Thank you for your loyalty, commitment and never ending focus…hip pip hooray!
A90Six
Sorry forgot to say a big thanks for the copyright work too!
kernelcopia
Thanks for the added copyright protection – and the invisible “right click” downloads!
4Flexiway
Excellent Grant and RB team! Thanks.
Derek Shockey
A big thanks for all the new stuff… really great work, you guys rock!!! :)
Jacqueline Baker
WOO HOO thanks for the copyright stuff makes me feel a whole lot better and just going over to the website bit now!!
Wildwings
Bravo, Grant!
David Roman
Wonderful Grant you can be really proud of the work you and the RB team did. Super!!
Carl Osbourn
wow! and awesome idea and brilliantly done! :]
eXposure
wonderful work from all the crew …
thank you RedBubble!
Alexh
Yep, this is great work, much appreciated, really does add a lot to RB. Kudos guys.
Jacqueline Mu...
It’s really great!!
justjen
That is one of the best things RB could have done. I’ve been a member of Smugmug for a while and they have been having trouble. This is great…......
jenndes
Thanks so much for all your hard work. I’m very happy about the copyright info being embedded now – wahoo! Really have enjoyed having my own bubblesite now for awhile. One question though, just noticed that now my “featured” photos show up one at a time instead of about 10 at a time and when you click on the forward arrow seem to skip a photo??
Linda Bennett
Great job and appreciate all your time and trouble for making RB a great place to be!!! Thanks!!!
Ozcloggie
Not usually into this: You guys rock -kind of talk but it was only after I’d hung the pictures, in the galleries, that I realised how nicely it’s all set out! 10/10 AND an early-mark!!!
Jo
BuddyH
fantastic idea!!!
Alexander Edwards
So easy. So good. Thank you for keeping it simple. Thank you for keeping it about the art.
antix
great news, keep up the good work guys….!
Liz Calmiano
Wicked, thanks guys!!
RebeccaT
This is fantastic! – set mine up last night and I love it!!! – Thank you!!
scrphotography
This sounds like a great idea
Charissa May B...
Thank you redbubble. This looks really slick cheers xxc:
richepix
Sounds a great idea. If ever I start selling stuff I will certainly set one up. Sounds much easier than the website I built myself and this will have the RedBubble name – must be good.
Jaeda DeWalt
Thank you for all your hard work. This a great community for artists and art lovers alike :). I look forward to all the great new changes ahead!
Cvail73
Wow!! is it Christmas yet???
Thanks guy’s that’s absolutely brilliant!! :)))))))))))
HRLambert
wicked x
dragonsnare
Help. I set up a site but cannot figure out how to connect to my rb account, or to make it accesable to visitors. I also cannot place a redbubble my my name. I get the url’s but I don’t know where to put them as I do no have a seperate web page.
Thanks
burningark
this bubble is the best thing on the web – THANK YOU
nesi
you guys rock! : ))
Will Bueche
Bug report: When item descriptions contain a portion of a sentences within dashes “
- text -”, the text between the dashes gets converted into strikethrough. I.e., in the following sentence: “The quick brown fox jumped- with a certain panache -over the lazy dog”, the words “with a certain panache” appear with a line struck through them, in the Bubblesite. On Firefox 3, anyway.Douglas Hill
RB’s community aspect is unparalleled already, but I think we’re going to sell more to people outside the community with BubbleSites. Good move!
krafty
Fandabbydozy..good work guys..well done.
Heloisa Castro
Great work. Thanks.
Marilyn Brown
The properly scaled images in the challenge voting are so much better. Thank you and well done.
Susan Bergstrom
Sounds great…where can I sign up for this bubblesite??? I don’t really like people being able to get into my profile page and by acident or error get into my personal info???
Lloyd Harvey
Horay! Been waiting for a while on this.
Mine is all set up here!
Christine Wilson
very well done guys as always all the hard work is paying off ofr us all bubblesite looks great will have aplay around and see how it goes
Allen Lucas
Great idea, set-up at work in a short while. Need to learn some tricks to insert urls. The method of dragging and dropping into gallery’s and to re-organize in gallery is great. Only issue I have is the Featured work scrolls past every second picture. Will check out the feedback area to see what others have in tips & tricks. Hope we can keep this at the best price ever because its value is worth paying for. (If inly I could make a sale or two to contribute to the RB coffers, fingers crossed)
Lyn Fabian
Great! Will set mine up now! Any chance of sub folders in the future?
Lyn Fabian
Doh!!!! have just set up site and of course you have sub folders. Thank you!!!
Alyssa Passlow
Thanks so much this is wonderful!
Jimson Carr
Wicked Cool! I’ve been looking forward to a good personalized site… Many thanks!
Jack McCabe
Sounds enticing!
Generates excitement!
Feeling creative energies bubble up!
TimChuma
Needs filter for NSFW images.
Will Bueche
I like the idea and the effort behind the Bubblesites. However I feel that the Bubblesites’ method of selecting t-shirt color and type is a bit too much like Zazzle, with the scrolling through options. Don’t be like Zazzle, do it differently! I am sure the final results will be splendid.
Will Bueche
Disregard that, I found the Feedback area.
Fiona MacNab
Fantastic, I love it. The only drawback I’ve hit so far it that it’s VERY difficult to change the order of pictures. I know we click and drag them, but I seem to have to move them 2 or 3 places at a time – and as I have a health problem restricting my use of the mouse this is extremely difficult for me. Maybe a system where we can number them would be better? Great work though getting these sites together, many thanks.
Wildwings
Got my site set up yesterday. Will keep working on it. Thank you for your hard and valuable work.A quick question; I know that you can’t use HTML on RedBubble. I want to insert a clickable text ” email me” . I know how to insert a url but not an email address. How do I do that please?
LadyRm
Absolutely wonderful, beautiful . . . I’m happy here. Thank you all, Guys and Gals, for creating such an awesome site.
Pat Lucas
I love it…....but…....I’m not too keen on the idea that you can actually right click and “save image as”. Is it possible to have what there is on RB at the moment, where it just comes up with a blank square and not the photo?
Julian Escardo
Tried it, it works beautifully – BLACK background ASAP please! would be a start. An idea: when the viewer selects a shot it should open with a black background – I love that it opens as in the normal site, with your selected mattes or featured frames…..
Good work!
Donna Ridgway
Thanks for the redbubble sites, I love the way it’s so easy to manage, even on a very slow dial up connection. And when I upload my large images, your site doesn’t time out. Thanks for that also!
MenOfMichigan
Thanks for doing this for us all. I really appreciate the convenience of this and helps direct people much easier. I know you are probably getting all kinds of further suggestions, and mine would be possible subsets with a set. But I don’t want to discourage, right now, only nothing but praise for all your efforts. Thanks once again.
Elena Ray
you get better all the time-never stop!!
DavidAmosPhoto...
I think you guys do an awesome job here, I love how Redbubble is so dynamic and not static like a lot of other sites have been on. Very much looking forward to the change.
TimChuma
Unpublished work even makes it into the Gallery site. Will have to just delete stuff for now.
chrismont
Well Done Grant and RedBubble Teams! and thanks for a new service bubblesite… It reallys is something I’m looking for… so cool!
THANK YOU ขอบคุณครับ (in Thai script meaning “thank you”)
artyrau
Thanks. Great job.
C J Lewis
Great work guys…thanks :)
David McAuley
Great Work, thanks
Friederike Ale...
Hello!
Me too I just wanted to say THANK YOU for that incredible BUBBLESITE option!!....It works really well and looks very aesthetic and professional. I really love it!! ;o)
Greetings from Germany & keep up the good work! ;o)
Frida
walterfest
I would like also to thank you for the great work you do for us and for art, is a stimulus more to produce works increasingly beautiful!
Thank you once again
Walter
faizee
thankx …this is awesome
Megan Martin
Love the new changes…Im really grateful for the copyright stuff as well…makes me safe to be here with my work!
steelwidow
This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for!!!!!!! OMG! I was installing some software on my website to be able to do what bubblesite is now doing. You’ve saved me a ton of work and not only that, you take care of the billing! You are incredible! Thank you… it’s all I can say.
Christopher Meder
Great work, I love BubbleSites and now finally start to use this site the way I want to! thanks team
Maryanne Fenec...
I am even more of a fan than ever before. I may be thick but could someone explain how we can visit each others Bubblesite? If it hasn’t been done already, I’m sure you guys are trying to sort it out as we speak. But I just thought I might not be so quick with the IT and have missed it. Thanks again. Maryanne
Alexandra Jack
Really love the idea of the Bubblesites but can you help me I accidentally created a gallery and I want to delete it how do you do this and also can you change the name of a gallery?
blackvelvet
nice one cant wait to try it out …..thanks and best wish ..B.v
Zaldy Infante
awesome, thanks guys!!
Els Steutel
Way to go guys @ the bubblesite it’s great:)
jansnow
Sooo excited! Just began working on my site last night. Thanks for all the hard work, you really deserve the kudos!
Graeme Pettit ...
Nice job – Ive no doubt a number of enhancements are in the pipeline, as the sites look a bit bland – but they work a treat – nice coding folks, and thanks
nadeem
yes great work
Dragoncat
Yeah Sure the Red-BubbleATTI is Going To HONOUR OUR COPYRIGHTS!!! PFFT! GET real!!! I see you people are allready so thoroughly fooled that you wont even listen to me, when I say YOU ARE BEING SCAMMED BY REDBUBBLE!!! WAKE UP TO REALITY PLEASE!!!! Thank you
Sheila Smith
Love yu work Grant
pduv
This is great, thanks so much!
Is there any way to choose the background colour?
My website is black, and would be nice to be able to use a RBsite with a black background rather than the stark white.
Cheers, and even if not, thanks! Cos this is great!!
Linda Syms
Excellent work RB what would we do without you.
Erland Howden
BubbleSites are so fantastic. You guys rock. Thanks.
evile33
Bubblesites are the best thing to happen sine sliced bread :D
THANK YOU!
NordicBlackbird
Fabulous, dear Grant – with a thousand thanks for all your hard work!!! :))))
Nat :)
Warren Williams
Bubblesites are great, however I would like to see a way of seeing how many hits it has recieved also a visitors sign in book with comment would be nice.
Thanks.
RealPainter
THANKS AND THANKS AND THANKS A MILLION AND A TRILLION AND FOREVER THANKS…...........ITS GOING TO WORK AND BE A GREAT GREAT PLACE TO COME AND TO BE…........TO CONTINUE….....the best place in web land in the web world…and on earth….....amen! thanks again for all your hard work…each and everyone! ;}
Danit Elgev
The site is great, and very easy to use too!
I have one question though.. Why doesn’t the clicks on the images in the site are added to the count of “views” , in other words- why can’t I see how many people have clicked on my photos through the bubblesite?