Version 3 is Live
I'm pleased to announce that the 3rd revision of The Lens Flare is now live. For those new to the site, The Lens Flare is a community of artists and photographers that use the site to display their images with each other and the world. This version should be easier to use and has many more features built in.
I appreciate all of your comments and suggestions over the last couple of weeks. Many of the suggestions made it into this version, and while some of them didn't make it as of yet, they may be added as I continue to enhance the website. As always, I'll continue to listen to your comments and suggestions for improving the site, and you're always welcome to email me directly at scribe at the lens flare dot com. You can also ask questions in the forum where everybody can help answer them.
Many of the web addresses have changed, so if you have links pointing to your pages from other websites, email signatures, etc, please update these to reflect the current website.
To quickly recap the new features, they include:
- More Images: Up to 500 images on the basic account, 1000 images for silver, and unlimited for the gold account.
- Less Expensive Upgrades: $9.95 for Silver, and $29.95 for gold.
- Multiple Image Sizes: 150px thumbnail, 500px standard image, 900px large image, and 2 250px detail images.
- Dashboard - to quickly get to important links.
- Albums - to organize your pictures however you want.
- Videos - updated art and photography videos from YouTube.
- Camera Reviews - to help you decide on which camera to purchase.
- Search - the search page has been improved.
- Image Categories - categories are formed automatically based on the pictures on the site.
- Member Profile - customize your homepage with the profile fields.
- Stat Counter - view traffic to your pages, where in the world they come from, etc by integrating your statcounter.com account with your pages on The Lens Flare. To do this, add your stat counter codes on your profile page.
- Image Management - easier management of your images, with stats showing traffic trends over the last 7 and 30 days to your pictures.
- Less Spam - spam registrations and crude comments will be far fewer with the addition of several features to hinder automated programs from submitting information to the site.
- New Look and Feel - the site's look and feel has been completely redone to promote a more professional appearance.
If you haven't already, please register (http://www.thelensflare.com/cart) a free account so that you can upload images as well.
