News & Updates

Editable Tabs | Nov 09, 08

Here's an update a lot of users have been asking for: Editable tab names. Instead of the default titles for pages on your sites, like "Portfolios," "Multimedia," "Biography," "Resume," etc., you can now enter whatever text you want. "Portfolios" can be changed to "Galleries." "Contact" can be changed to "Message Me." It's all up to you.

Users can edit their tab names by going to Personal > Links in their update area. If you don't specify custom text, the defaults will be used.

Enjoy!

The Featured Photographer Project | Aug 23, 08

Great News!

Our Featured Photographer Project is up and running. This is something we here at Qufoto have been looking forward to for a little while now. Let me tell you what's cool about it, what we hope to achieve with it, and how you can be a part of it.

The Interview

Once a month, we hope to present a high quality interview with a new photographer who uses our service. These interviews will read well and look good, and hopefully convey a meaningful look into the mind and thoughts of someone who is great at what they do.

The interviews will be unscripted and conducted by other photographers, so that a real understanding of the field can drive a unique exchange of thought.

With each interview, a selection of the photographer's work will be presented large and high-quality, so that you can see their work as you read what they think, and experience the final result of what their frame of mind leads them to capture.

Community

One thing we hope to achieve with the Featured Photographer Project is a community of interest and respect among our photographers and those interested in their work. A flourishing network of connections among talented professionals would be an excellent thing to have created.

We'd also like to help develop recognition for the photographers whose work we personally admire, and who we think deserve to be more widely known. If our spotlight can help them get one more commission, or sell one more print, then we'll have done well.

You

At this time the Featured Photographer Project is only open to photographers who use a Qufoto website. If you do, and you're interested in being interviewed, you can let us know by sending us a simple note. You should have a selection of work that you feel comfortable sharing in an interview.

If you're not a Qufoto user, you're out of luck! But we hope you still enjoy the interviews that we do create.

There's no telling, yet, where this project will go. But we hope it will be successful. Our first interview is with Lacey Johnson. You can read it here.

Performance Updates | Aug 17, 08

Over the past week or so we spent some time enhancing the speed at which our servers reply to requests for your data. It turned out amazingly well. Although there were some deployment difficulties which were eventually resolved, Qufoto.com and its clients' websites are now about 100 times faster. This means we can handle much more traffic than before, and response and load times should continue to be very stable.