RedBubble Thursday makes a comeback!
Ahoy! It’s been a massive couple of weeks, and we’ve been pushing as hard as we can to get things in place before the inevitable Christmas slow-down, which has made our usual release process and schedule a little random, but I think it’s been worth the disturbance. Here’s the highlights of the stuff we’ve been working on since the last release (almost 2 weeks):
- Watermarking: By incredibly popular demand, you can now choose to have a small or large watermark placed on all of your images. The preference is in the usual spot, you can see samples of the current designs here, and those that had the old small “copyright” watermark have been given the new small one by default.
- Speaking of which, we’ve ditched the copyright notice watermark in favor of a RedBubble logo because many artists felt they were forced to use the watermark to assert their ownership, as images without the watermark appeared not copyrighted, which is of course utterly incorrect, but hard to explain to people. Instead, we assert your copyright/ownership of the image on the zoom view, and will continue to assert your ownership and rights in many places.
- BubbleMail: Also by popular demand, you can now delete your BubbleMail and group BubbleMails have a different icon.
- Order Status: You can now find out more about the status of your order by clicking the where’s my order? link in the footer. We don’t have tracking of the shipping codes yet, but that’s most definitely going to happen.
- Groups: You can search for groups within the groups section. It’s not in the main search screen because that’s getting rebuilt in the new year.
- We’ve had some fun polishing up the buy t-shirts page, showing more tees and generally playing around with some ideas we have. We’ll be testing this against the success of the older design, then moving forward with the other ones (cards, wall-art, etc).
- Facebook: There’s a new FB app which adds the flash widget to your profile, which you can find through MyBubble > Promote down the bottom.
- Writing: We now have a featured writing to match the existing featured art and clothing pages. It’s maintained by the same mystery set of people who have access to the magic password, but we’ve added some new people to the mix who have wonderful taste when it comes to the written word.
- Product Info: We have the beginnings of some new product information pages that we can point people to instead of the ugly old FAQs, so that buyers are well-informed about our high-quality production, and have more confidence buying your stuff.
- Tees: We’ve darkened the Navy and Forest tee preview color to better match reality. It’s really hard to convey this in the preview, but printing black ink on these colors is pretty much useless, so if you’re the kind of designer that just checks all the boxes, please go back and make sure your designs will look okay on the darker colors.
- Greeting Cards: We’ve increased the base manufacturing price from AU$2.50 to AU$3.00 simply because the cards take much, much longer to make than we originally forecast.
- Free Shipping Continues: If your order contains 4 tees or 4 posters or 4 mounted prints or 4 laminated prints or 2 framed prints or 50 cards, you’ll get free standard shipping on the entire order. So, if you order 4 tees the entire order is shipped for free no matter what else you have in the order.
- Image Quality: The base images we use to build our various thumbnails off are now larger and of much better quality, which means your work will look better, everywhere! We’re in the process of re-doing all the old ones, which will take a couple of days.
- Image Proportions: The size of our zoom views are now more balanced (similar number of pixels) so that portraits, panoramas and odd-shaped images appear similar in size to regular ones. There’s more we want to do here for sure, including the same kind of relative sizing in the main view.
...and the usual swag of bug fixes and little things you can go discover for yourself!
This next week is one of our infrequent “weeks off” where we do a bit more thinking and talking and planning instead of writing code flat out. The llamas usually come up with some cool stuff during these weeks, but who knows! After that, we should have a pretty good plan in place for the next month or two of work. We have no shortage of ideas, and we know there’s heaps of stuff you still really really need, so hang in there!
— Justin
Jo O'Brien
lordy you lot have been busy
kathleen
..bout time fellas whippety crack!!! I mean crack a whip…
thanks… now it’s gonna take til the next release to figure it allll out…
:-)
Andrew Walker
nice one pixies and magicians of the bubble
frogster
Great work all
Disenchanted
Busy Bubble Keepers… many thanks for all of the hard work.
It is very apparent and an appreciated!
Murray Newham
nice stuff everyone!
Sheryl Kasper
Wow, you all have been busy.
We appreciate everything your doing and also for keeping us informed.
Thank you.
thrumyeyes
Christmas came early…...yo Justin…..you the man.
BarryKing
wow…awesome work bubblemakers!
Daniel Rayfield
great to see the dev team is still hard at it … well done
Paul McClintock
Just about all of these new features make me go ‘eeee’ with delight.
David Librach ...
Man, I’m glad I’m not in the Melbourne office. That just sounds like way too much work for me. :)
Good job llamas!!
StacyLee
This is glorious! Thanks RB :)
Faizan Qureshi
Wow, you guys have been very busy this time!! :O
Well done guys and girls!
Sharon Ulrich
Woo hoo! Facebook widget!!
Cathie Tranent
Ride them llamas!!
Wonderful work as usual guys – I’m off to clean out my bubblemail!!
thrumyeyes
I sure did enjoy deleting all of that bubblemail….....thanks guys.
Kimberly Palmer
Very cool….. =)
Wish there was a way to delete the Bubblemail all at once…. I have nearly 70 pages of Bubblemail. Whoa, I’m going to be busy. he he
Craig Goldsmith
Great stuff RB!
gordontant
BIG WOW WOW WUBBZY GUYS
Watermark … UBERCOOL
Bubblemail … deleting great, now just to get rid of 38 pages worth
Featured writing … And one of mine is on there… SUPER COOL.
Justin … You deserve a pint of the good stuff mate
jemimalovesbigted
Well done as usual guys! You all rock with a big ‘ROCK’!
Justin French
Oh, it’s not me at all — the entire dev team (Kath, Dave, John, Xavier, Grant & Ben) and the rest of the company that makes all the magic happen.
Paul Fleming
As if I wasn’t addicted to facebook enough as I am… now I can watch my images flash past before my eyes without leaving the site… I like the bubble transition thing to…purdy
Joyce Dickens,...
Wow! Thank all of you busy busy people that make up redbubble! Awesome stuff!
Trace Lowe
Love these additions! You all are so busy! Thanks!
genevievem
Thanks all of you at Red Bubble. Really enjoying my time.
aphoto4you
wow awsome…..thank u redbubble..
georgiegirl
RB Elves… Fantastic work!! All that you do is very much appreciated… but you know that! Cool widget! So Facebook is good to join then? Hmmm, maybe I should…
clau
wonderful news.congratulations!!!
Stephen Colquitt
More toys – great stuff guys. I will look into the facebook thingy first I think.
Carmen Cilliers
THANK YOU! It was great to discover the delete button on emails this morning so I knew you guys must have been hard at it! I was thinking the next product that could be added could be diaries where perhaps we could have artwork inserted at monthly intervals or go wild guys, maybe more, but it would be a special thing to be able to create a diary with our favourite art and include our own… maybe something to look at for next year?
Melinda Kerr
Noice
benj
great updates!
Scott Ruhs
Wow! definitely worth the wait! So many enhancements. You rock!
Save a bubble ride a llama LOL!
Rosalie Dale IPA
Whoa – busy beaver-llamas. Well done.
Bahoke
Awesome!!
jumpy
sweet action
jack01
Thank you RB elves
Adriana00
Wow, you guys have been super busy! I’ve added the Facebook widegt thing already and am VERY please with the new improved watermarking feature.
Big pat on the back to all at RB for this bumper RB thursday!!
Kim Roper
Thanks all you guys/girls at RB for the lovely xmas presents…
HAve a good one!
Marion Cullen
Sweet! We ask, we get. I like it!!
Clarissa Stuart
Great new stuff, guys! But what happened to Laminated Prints? They aren’t on the new product info page. Did you do away with those??
I totally LOVE the new larger watermark.
MuscularTeeth
when do you guys open an adelaide office so i can start working for you guys?
Mel Brackstone
This is great guys, but I have 33 pages of bubblemail, can I nuke the lot in one go? :D
Christopher E...
whew..you wore me out just reading!! awesome job you guys running this show, and thanks for Listening to Us, that in itself is worth it
DWarren
Boy, Santa and his helpers have been really busy this season! Thanks to one and all!
sally williams
you are all just simply amazing…thanks for creating such a fantastic site
Deri Dority
Totally awesome!!
Claire Armistead
Oh by the lord! I could kiss the sweet ass that is RB for introducing a delete button for BM. Over 14 pages to start trawling through; Amen to that : ) You have been incredibly busy and these are the best features to be focusing on. Well done team for working so God damn hard….you kiss ass!....and at xmas too!.....great job. xx
Claire Armistead
kick!...that would be KICK ass …...whoops!
Patrick Morand
Nice job and thank you for that !
SpaceAce07
Alrighty then. way to go.
nofrillsart
Yeah…llamas are the best people!
Darren Stones
Thank you. Enjoy your wind down next week team.
Cheers.
Sara Lamond
Yay for the facebook app.
I’ve added it, now if only I could find the f*ing thing – I’ve got so many apps on my profile it’s lost! LOL
David Iori
Great work all
Melissa Vowell
YAY FOR FEATURED WRITING AND BEING ON IT YAY
Lisa Kenny
Hey I’ve just realised the comment box is back down the bottom of the page !!
Melissa Vowell
HELP… I can’t set my t-shirts default colour as anything but white!! Why? cries
Deborah Bowness
You guys and gals are awesome! What busy little bees you have been! Lovin’ how you can now deleted BM’s and also the check up on the order thingy….love it!! I see my mounted print is still in production, fingers crossed it arrives in the UK before Christmas!! Thanks for all the lovely new changes!!
Christine Wilson
well done guys its really coming together
Silvia Manuela
This is great to read, team, really pleased to see writing featured as well, great work
mawaho
Great job!!!!!!!
Hop Dac
the t-shirt default thingy is a bug. we fixin’ to fix it.
Incognita
Jolly fine show!
FakeFate
Tremendous!! As if RB wasn’t good enough, you’ve gone and moved it up a couple of notches. Can’t wait to see what the new year will bring.
Maria Dryfhout
You are doing such a great job, and when there is a glitch in my order, you helped me out so much. Changes and improvements are good! Keep up the good work and retain your focus and sanity throughout the next busy holiday weeks…
andygibb
brilliant guys…more great changes to the best photo/art site on the web…and jeez ive tried a few!!!..Merry Christmas from a cold damp Scotland to you and yours when it comes
gypsygirl
Well done everyone!! This is such a great site, keep it up! Merry Xmas to everyone there in Melbourne from Adelaide!
Nathan Dooley
Great work Bubblemakers.
Thank you for such an awesome site and resource.
Deborah Holman
I don’t know if you’ll reach my email with all the praise you’ve been experiencing.
It is amazing the improvements you manage in a week, keep up the good work.
Melissa Vowell
MY HEROES :) (thanks for fixing the t-shirt thing) xxxxx
Marita McVeigh
Thank you for all your hard work!
maxi
Thanks to all of you in RB, happy new year to everyone.