We’ve mentioned before that many visitors to Redbubble land deep within the site, often on one of your works. So we’ve been working on ways to encourage visitors and shoppers to browse more of your artwork. In the last iteration of work pages, we introduced an easier way to navigate between works and collections with a small carousel or slide show. This resulted in a significant increase the amount of people who stayed and browsed within a portfolio. So today we’ve released an update to make this feature work even better.

Carousels are a method for displaying more of your work to visitors who are here to browse and buy. When someone lands on one of your works, they’ll see a Carousel with larger thumbnails of other work from your Portfolio directly below the artwork…

_{Day 229 – 24th February 2012 by petegrev}

Today we will be re-introducing Pinterest as one of the social sharing options next to artworks on Redbubble. Pinterest has quickly become the third biggest social network on the web. It’s a beautifully designed site that allows people to express themselves and share their inspiration. Pinterest provides artists with a significant opportunity to gain more exposure as it helps millions of people to discover art and design they love.

We understand not everyone is a fan of the whole “pinning” thing so we’ve made the “Pin It” button on your work optional. Once the changes have been rolled out, you can head to your Account Details and scroll down to Image Settings. Tick “Hide Pin It button and prevent pinn…

_{Redbubble by Gideon du Preez Swart}

A few weeks ago, we posted an update on the Redbubble rebrand project to let you know we were digesting your feedback and working on some additional tweaks and changes. These changes have now been released so it’s time for an update on our update. Here’s a rundown on the most interesting bits, some of the things you asked us to address and a few added extras.
 

A List of Things We’ve Added and Tweaked:
 

Your homepage now has a memory. The site now remembers whether you were last browsing Found, Following or Activity and returns you to that page when you next click on the RB logo or on your name in the top right-hand navigation when you are logged in. If you spend your life sifting through your Activity feed, you’ll now b…

_{Message in a bottle by David Barneda}

A huge thanks everyone who has submitted feedback since last week’s RB rebrand. We’ve been reading and digesting all of your thoughts and we just wanted to let you know we’re working on a few improvements as we speak. These include:

• Easier access to your Activity and to forum topics you’re following
• Allowing you to see your Followers
• Sorting Groups alphabetically
• Addressing the design of Collections on your profile page

This isn’t the full extent of the list, but as these seem to be some of the most common themes in the feedback, we wanted to let you know they’re in the works and that your feedback is being heard.

If you have questions about anything regarding the launch you may be able to find some answers in our FAQ, a…

_{Fleeting moments by Rima Dadenji}
 

This time next week, we’ll be revealing the results of a rather large project we’ve been working on behind the scenes over the past 18 months – a site redesign and rebrand. We just wanted to give you a heads up as we prepare to reveal all. We know from past updates that people are keen to know the whys behind any change, so without giving away too much just yet, here’s some background and a sneak preview of what to expect.
 

Why Are We Making These Changes?
 

The origin of this project was strategy work we began almost 18 months ago when it became clear that we were operating more like a traditional e-commerce site than expected – i.e. a group of artists and designers and a quite separate group of sho…

You may have noticed a link hovering at the top of MyBubble for the past week or so, tempting you to try out the new product pages. It’s a project that has been in the pipelines for a while so we’d like to share some of the thinking behind the changes.

A significant amount of visitors to RedBubble land deep within the site and many of them arrive on a product page. We imagine that quite a few new visitors to RedBubble feel a little like the crew of the Enterprise feel when they’re beamed onto a new planet. You take in your surroundings very quickly, try to get your bearings then decide (again very quickly) whether you want to stick around.

Your art, design, photography and writing has done the hard work of getting them this far so it’s only fair that we ensure tho…

Recently we’ve pushed out a handful of updates we think you’ll find quite handy:

Google Analytics: You can now link your RedBubble profile to Google Analytics, enabling you to track visitors and find out a whole bunch of interesting information about who has been viewing your work including the countries they come from, which pages are most popular and how people are finding you. Google Analytics can take a little getting used to if you haven’t used it before but it’s well worth spending some time familiarising yourself with how it works. The settings can be found under MyBubble > Account Settings > Google Analytics. We’ve also written a handy FAQ to get you started.

See Your Work in Groups: Head on over to a group overview page and you’ll see an…

It’s been two weeks since we rolled out Collections and by now most of you have had time to take them for a spin, chew things over and send us some well considered and constructive feedback. We’ll go into more detail about your feedback and some of the adjustments we’ve already made below, but firstly we’d like to give you some background info on our approach to building Collections.

_{Works from Mojca Savicki’s Street Collection}

Of all the ideas and suggestions fired our way, an easier way to sort and categorise your work has been by far the most requested feature. In addition, we were getting to the point where a system which allowed you select a custom order for each work in your entire portfolio was beginning to break more often for more people, particul…

For many moons bubblers have wished for an easier way to arrange the work in their portfolios. You’ve dreamt of a time when the repetitive clicking of arrows is but a distant memory. A time when you can easily arrange your work by genre, theme or topic. Of all the ideas and suggestions fired our way, this has been by far the most requested feature.

After much discussing, planning, reading of feedback and suggestions, scribbling on whiteboards and magic coding voodoo, we’re excited to say that the dream is about to become reality. RedBubble’s developers have given the rest of us a sneak peek at exactly what they’ve been working on down in their secret bunker for the past few months. It turns out they weren’t playing darts after all.

Next week we’ll be…

Recently RedBubble has been about as much fun as a picnic at the zoo with lots of pink lemonade. Amongst all the hubbub I wanted to give you a quick update on the main issues we have distilled from the feedback on the new site and what we are doing.

Before doing so I will report that overall the site is performing very well. As measured by conversion rates (the rate at which you sell), page views per visit, visits and overall level of activity the new site is better than the old.

One measure of this is that the number of people using the old site has fallen quicker than we anticipated and is now ~.5% (ie about 1/200 visits) of all visits. Thus, and I hope this is fair warning, we will be turning the old site off this coming Thursday (GMT). Given its low level of usage we would rather dev…