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Wow, more new site features were announced by Hoop.la today, a mere five days since the last announcement!

 

Again, many of these features are ones that only admins will care about. But there are three enhancements that I think you will like - if not love. One, in fact, was a suggestion made by a Cookie Connection member many moons ago. Here they are:

 

1. Unified "Post Content" Button: Now, you can quickly post content to any area of the site just by clicking on the "Post Content" button in the upper right corner of the home page, as shown here:

 

Post Content

 

This saves you the step of having to click on the right area in the main navigation line. Once you click on the button, a set of quick links will pop up (see below) that direct to each posting area. I love shortcuts, don't you?

 

Post Content2

 

2. Ability to View Any Clips Page as a Slideshow: To this point, when you clicked on a clips page or the "See All" link under any of the site photo trending widgets, the photos revealed in a patchwork format something like this:

  

Slideshow

 

Now, they'll reveal this way too, but . . . you also have the option of viewing them in a larger-than-life, easy-to-scroll-through slideshow format. Just click on "View As Slideshow" in the upper left (blue bar), and the following format should reveal (which, BTW, you can click through as long as you want or close at any time).

 

Slide Show 2

 

Note, however, that you cannot click on the image in the slide show to like or comment on the image; you have to be in the patchwork viewing mode, as before, to do all of those things.

 

3. Slideshow Viewing Option in Photo Widgets: Admins like me also have the option of displaying any photo widget as a slideshow, rather than as a series of small thumbnails. You'll see this feature now in use in the "Today's Top Ten Cookies" widget in the top center of the home page. I think the larger photos show off your lovely cookies so much better. But please let me know what you think! 

Addendum: If you click on images in any of the widget slideshows, all of the image details WILL come up; they just don't in the slideshows available through "See All" links. (The latter issue is a shortcoming that I've asked Hoop.la to fix; ideally, if you click on any photo, all of the detail should come up . . . But I have no ETA for that fix.)

 

Enjoy - and, again, I'd love your feedback on these features and those announced last week. Are they helpful - or not helpful - to you? Thanks!

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  • Post Content Button: Upper Right of Home Page
  • Post Content Pop-Up Screen: With Quick Links
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  • Slide Show Format: What Reveals Once You Hit the Slideshow Button
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Julia, I am not seeing the View Slideshow option in the blue bar as you pictured.  I only see a drop box with "Sort By" options.  Have I missed a step?

 

I checked both Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and I am not seeing View Slideshow in either browser.

 

I'd love to see all clips in slideshow!  I've attached a screen shot. Maybe I've jumped the gun and these are "coming soon"?  Just checking :-)  Thanks in advance for any help.

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  • Cookie Connection clips screen

I am loving the new features, they are great. I do miss the option though to see "Today's hottest cookies" in the patchwork format (5 little photos) on the home page. I got such a thrill to see my cookies at number one, and now you don't know if you are one or ten? Also I took screenshots and posted them on my Facebook page (hopefully also driving traffic here). Is there anyway we can have the option to Choose which way we see it? Thanks again for all you efforts xo

Originally Posted by Belleissimo Cookies:

I am loving the new features, they are great. I do miss the option though to see "Today's hottest cookies" in the patchwork format (5 little photos) on the home page. I got such a thrill to see my cookies at number one, and now you don't know if you are one or ten? Also I took screenshots and posted them on my Facebook page (hopefully also driving traffic here). Is there anyway we can have the option to Choose which way we see it? Thanks again for all you efforts xo

If you look at the slide show viewer, you will also see little thumbnails underneath. Those are the same photos listed in the order in which they're trending (just a smaller version of the thumbnail layout we had before). So the one in the first (leftmost spot), and which reveals first when you enter the site, is #1. Likewise, if you click on "See All" in the lower right corner of the slide show, the patchwork format still reveals, arranged from hottest at the top on down. Moreover, once you are on the patchwork page, you can click on "See As Slideshow" and all photos (not just the top 10) will then be presented in slide show format again. You can toggle between patchwork and slide show formats on that page. So, in short, you do have the option to view either way, but you have to click on "See All" first to get to the patchwork page. Hopefully you can still take screenshots of the order on the patchwork page. If that does not suit you, you can also go to the Hot Spot area on the site (https://cookieconnection.juliausher.com/pages/hotspot) and see the normal trending layouts all there too.

Last edited by Julia M. Usher
Originally Posted by Julia M. Usher:
Originally Posted by Belleissimo Cookies:

I am loving the new features, they are great. I do miss the option though to see "Today's hottest cookies" in the patchwork format (5 little photos) on the home page. I got such a thrill to see my cookies at number one, and now you don't know if you are one or ten? Also I took screenshots and posted them on my Facebook page (hopefully also driving traffic here). Is there anyway we can have the option to Choose which way we see it? Thanks again for all you efforts xo

If you look at the slide show viewer, you will also see little thumbnails underneath. Those are the same photos listed in the order in which they're trending (just a smaller version of the thumbnail layout we had before). So the one in the first (leftmost spot), and which reveals first when you enter the site, is #1. Likewise, if you click on "See All" in the lower right corner of the slide show, the patchwork format still reveals, arranged from hottest at the top on down. Moreover, once you are on the patchwork page, you can click on "See As Slideshow" and all photos (not just the top 10) will then be presented in slide show format again. You can toggle between patchwork and slide show formats on that page. So, in short, you do have the option to view either way, but you have to click on "See All" first to get to the patchwork page. Hopefully you can still take screenshots of the order on the patchwork page. If that does not suit you, you can also go to the Hot Spot area on the site (https://cookieconnection.juliausher.com/pages/hotspot) and see the normal trending layouts all there too.

Thanks Julia, I forgot about the hotspot page, thanks for the reminder. 

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