RedBubble Thursday
Welcome to another Thursday morning in sunny Melbourne, Australia. Here’s what we pushed out this morning:
- Posters are now available for your art works – as a shameless plug, you can see a sample here for one of my own designs. Check out that slick poster preview Grant’s been working on! Posters are best suited to strong graphic designs, not photographs, so please only tick the box if your work is suitable. We print these at a minimum of 150dpi on A2, A1 and A0 paper sizes (then trim off the white space), so they’re pretty impressive!
- We’re now doing real wrapped canvases with deep white edges (for the same price!)—a photographic sample can be seen down the bottom of the config screen
- Groups can now elect to approve (or not approve, of course) work as it’s added to the group, which will help the moderators of our busiest groups keep the content within their guidelines. Group owners, you can make this change in the “edit this group” screen.
- We now show more people on the community page, so if you’re featured there, you’ll be featured longer, which is nice.
- We’ve also nuked the “what’s hot” from the community page, and we’ve replaced it a with The Daily Wrap (a daily-ish report from RedBubble staff about stuff we find interesting or noteworthy on the site from day to day).
- The bio text on your overview page is no longer truncated/chopped, which means you’re free to “go nuts” in there and do whatever you like—it’s your profile, after all. This also meant that the “profile” page was redundant, so it’s gone.
- You can now report inappropriate BubbleMails, so if someone really isn’t playing nice, you can let us know (yes, there’s other things BubbleMail needs, like delete—please be patient!)
...and some little things we’ll let you discover for yourself.
So that’s a wrap-up of Ice-T#3. We’re just about to kick-off #4 here at RBHQ and we’ve got a wildly optimistic set of things we want to do. The biggest priority this week is to show our fulfillment houses some more love to make their life much easier (which means faster production times and less things going wrong).
The rest of the week will be consumed with lots of little things that we’ve been meaning to do for a while. It’s a massive list, most of which have already been talked about a lot, so I won’t list them again here (and I’m not really sure how many we’ll get to) so you’ll have to wait and see next week!
— Justin
kseriphyn
LIke it a lot. Thanks Justin.
Jessica Tremp
THANK YOU!!!
Cathie Tranent
Ooh – you win again!!
Cathie Tranent
The buy button is now a buy/preview button!
Craig Goldsmith
Thanks Justin, awesome stuff!
Danny
Cool
Great idea putting Scott Robinson as the feature, his work is perfect for posters
I already picked mine out.
Faizan Qureshi
Great work Justin.
RedBubble
Oh no, it’s not just me! It’s a massive team effort every week.
Heather Davies
Thanks Justin fantastic !! :D
Darren Stones
Thanks TEAM! :)
Cathie Tranent
Oh .. kay ... tanks to de RB massive den!
Paul Fleming
in regards to the ‘real’ wrapped canvases… you mean like with wooden frame, rather than the gator board? The description still talks about the gator board… so I’m confused
Faizan Qureshi
So we have to edit all our work to include posters?
Community page rocks… but it’s rather long.
Also, there’s a cut off in the community journal… I can’t seem to go to “previous” set of journals, can only see one page of them.
RachJayn
yay, nice work!
MissKristy
Cheers! Keep up the wonderful work guys :)
StacyLee
Thank you all :)
Justin French
Paul, it’s still on Gator, because it’s much safer to ship and doesn’t require as much stretching (which results in much cleaner edges and a nicer finish). We showed these to a lot of people and the gator wrap won hands down.
Jeff Burns
This is fantastic More improvements
Wanda Lechene
very cool great job
joolz
Keep up the great work RB!
thrumyeyes
somebody bubblemail me where the daily wrap is located…ah I’m having a moment. LOL
Darren Stones
Featuring five artists on the community page looks professional and allows for rotation. Double thumbs-up.
It would be preferable to see ‘Groups’ placed below ‘Journal’ entries on each member’s profile page.
Thanks for your efforts.
kseriphyn
Did I say I LOVE THE NEW COMMUNITY PAGE!! It’s the best sure fire thing. Brilliant.
thrumyeyes
I think I figured it out…..
Paul Fleming
Cheers Justin
Karen Cougan
fantbloodytastic…..........it’s so amazing watching the Bubble Grow before our own very eyes…..........brilliant work guys.
SANTA will be nice to you all…..........
xkc
Leisa Hennessy
Sweet work gang :)
Leisa Hennessy
Sweet work gang :)
Melinda Kerr
On ya guys! Any word on the calendars?
Christine Wilson
well done guys and girls
Christine Wilson
I can’t see the poster option when going into edit
jemimalovesbigted
Very happy about the canvas. Can we please have kids t-shirts back??? And how about babies ‘onesies’. So many cool designs I would love to put my wee boy in. By the way, Keep up the good work guys!
Justin French
Christine, you’ll only see that option if your work is big enough—the posters are big prints, so, you know, we need big files :)
thrumyeyes
hats off to all of u who work so hard to keep this place going. I spend most of my beloved time here now.
Christine Wilson
ah ok yeap thanks
markhiggins
bubbling away nicely. Thanks for the poster addition.
Deborah Bowness
It just gets better and better!!
Evangeline Than
Thanks for all your hard work, guys! The posters look really, really good :)
James Pierce
@Melinda – Cals are still very much in progress – We are still tweaking the product to get the best possible print quality and price. At this stage to the best of my knowledge we expect to launch them later in Nov – yeah it’s going to be cutting it fine for christmas, but we’ll make sure they fly out the door once they are launched.
SnowDog
Thanks goes out to all the hard working staff for the continuing improvement to our own beloved addiction we call ” Redbubble “
Eleni Sofroniou
great, thanks. i prefer the new layout
googa
Well something different is good ! change is good !
Beatriz R. Ald...
The new layout is great. Thank you!
Mundy Hackett
I don’t know which I find the most pleasing and impressive, a site where the Admin team is so on top of things getting done or so adept at keeping the community abreast of the changes ongoing? Oh heck they are both AWESOME! Thanks for the posters, the canvas, and everything on the community page! I give us 2 years tops before we are the toast of the proverbial photosite internet sites! Three cheers for the RB Team!
Murray Newham
your pants are fancy
seventeen
Justine – You say “big files” for the posters in an earlier comment. It would be tops if you can you give us some guidelines on file size/px . I can only get the small size on previewing mine and one of my files is not big enough for a poster at all. Thanks
seventeen
Sorry Justin – edit problem, didn’t mean to call you a girl!!! he he he, oops
Douzy
Thanks Justin, great job as always!
James Pierce
I’ve just updated the FAQ here
funkyfacestudio
Thank you !!! :)
Mark Peterson
Nice to see a team on top of things… Thank you!
Mark Tisdale
I gather collapsing the profile into the overview page was on today’s agenda, too?
Me like!!
It was driving me nuts trying to get my index to my images to break properly before I ran out of space the old way!
Agree on the comment of putting journals over groups, but can live with either way.
Any chance of getting one more row of art? I know I’m pushing it! :-)
Keep up the great work – it’s awesome to watch this site evolve even in the short time I’ve been here.
RoughDiamond
You guys are Unbelievabubble! I feel like I was sitting in on the meeting. This is so cool. I do like this new format thing. Also, re bubblemail … is there a way of seeing your “sent” mail?
I love this place… I don’t wanna go home … oh wait .. I am home !!!
Mark Tisdale
oh duh, now I see the bio part was listed in the changes – and it rocks!
Michelle Hitt
Woohoo! You guys – and gals – totally rock my socks off! Seriously – my feet are so naked because of you right now!!!
:-)
Al Neaimi
great stuff Justin , Thank you
Mugsy
Thanks Guys and gals…..things just keep getting better ‘n better!
Melinda Kerr
Thanks for the info on the calendars James!
jewelskings
On the posters what size does the uploaded image need to be?
Samantha Van S...
those posters rock! they are huge! we’ve gone commercial (did I just notice?!)
RoughDiamond
we’ve gone to commercial? cool time for a wee stop :B
W. J. St. Chri...
Some good changes, but the base prices are up, which probably deserves a mention.
PhotogeniquE IPA
cheers guys. some nice changes there.
Walter Quirtmair
Since almost all my works are good for Posters it would be nice if there’s a way to switch on the “Poster” flag for all works at once. It’s annoying if I need to edit all my hundreds of photos…
OTOH great work, thanks!
Walter
Justin French
W. J. St. Christopher – there were no base price changes, so what are you referring to?
Justin French
Walter, that’s a tough one, because we really want to discourage that kind of semi-concious decision making. Took a quick look at your portfolio and your stuff is mainly photographic, so I’d suggest you don’t need to edit most of them at all, because the posters aren’t suited to photographs as much as graphic design work.
Justin French
Gah, hit “add comment” too soon, but the other thing I wanted to say is that some bulk editing options would be great one day.
W. J. St. Chri...
Hi, Justin,
I only noticed it because a potential buyer emailed me. It seems my pre-markup and post-markup (retail) prices are showing slightly higher than they were just a day or so ago. For instance, my pre-markup price for a card (and I use the same markup for everything) has been $2.25US and is now listed as $2.38US. I haven’t changed my markup or anything else, as far as I know.
Or, the fact that it’s 5 hours past my bedtime could mean that I shouldn’t be doing anything remotely math-related right now! I’ll check on it later today, and get back to you.
Thanks for letting me know that there hasn’t been an actual change.
gordontant
Firstly, I love the changes, and the group approval thing too.
but as Walter has pointed out we have a lot of images and I for one would like the ability to change what format they are sold as easier, please see link to forum here
Tanya B. Schro...
I’ve noticed the price hike in cards, too. So it’s just a glitch?
W. J. St. Chri...
Tanya, thank goodness—I thought I was losing my mind! Now that I know it’s not just me, I can focus on my day and come back to this later.
Julie Langford
Love all the changes, and that idea to include a delete comment button – pure genious -
Hiroko
Keep up the great work, much appreciated!!
Walter Quirtmair
Justin,
You suppose that Posters are not for photographs, but that’s wrong. I just recently had a request for one of my photos in extra-large size which now would be no problem with Posters. Some of my photos already has been printed and sold as Poster (not on RB), so I’d like to enable the Poster flag for all of my works here on RB as well…
Nicholas Averre
Nice one, Thanks Justin!
Xavier Shay
Walter – we say that because it’s not just about size. Simply put, photos look a bit flat on posters compared to our other wall art products, and they don’t highlight the quality of the work. But we do just say “great for” to emphasize exactly that – what the product is best for.
Xavier Shay
hmm, that sounds a bit negative. They’re only flat because there’s no finish, unlike mounted/framed prints. We printed a whole range of images on photos – you’ve seen the shots of TBO’s illustration – including a lot of James’ photos, and posters really shine with graphic art.
peter
@Tayna – US base prices have changed reflecting the changing value of the US dollar over the last few months. We update our base prices about every three to six months to take into consideration changes in exchange rates.
W. J. St. Chri...
Thanks for that info, Peter, I knew something had changed!
Now, we REALLY need a batch edit button. I want to keep my retail prices the same as they were. Even with only a few pages of items, I’m dreading having to edit them one-by-one.
Justin French
Why do you want to keep them the same? I mean, I understand that if you picked a nice round number and you might want to keep that nice number, but a user browsing the site in a different currency is going to see a completely different number (and we’re adding more currencies soon, so the chances of that will increase).
W. J. St. Chri...
Because I’ve been marketing the cards to my local customers at a certain price—and it’s WAY to soon for them to see a price increase. I rely on these buyers to support my higher priced art, too, and it’s important to maintain my credibility with them.
After the holidays, I’ll feel more comfortable with a slight price increase, but not yet. It’s just about my local business—no worries!
Tanya B. Schro...
Thanks for the clarification, Peter. It’s only a few pennies, after all! And just another sign that our economy is slowly going down the toilet.
I’m sorry, was that out loud? :-)
W. J. St. Chri...
Fluuuush!
Justin French
Fair enough W. J.
msleeds
Justin, please flag all my work to enable posters.
I have yet to sell something, but there is always hope.
This is a fun site and I’m glad to be part of it.
Thanks for making it user friendly.
kellymb
Fantastic update, big yay to the RB team :D