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This can be useful for helping remind visitors how to purchase items, or to make them aware of features like the search facility or active promotions that are running.
The option can be enabled in the General gallery settings admin section. It can also be enabled on a portfolio basis via the admin page for editing portfolios.
Visitors will have the option to hide the message after they have read it and it will be automatically removed when they have added an item to their shopping cart.
This feature can be enabled and disabled in the Personal details admin section.
On Wednesday 10th September between 3-4am (BST) maintenance work will be conducted on defective network equipment. Although this defective equipment is not affecting the service it does need to be replaced.
No outages are anticipated, given the redundant nature of the equipment being worked on. However, should an unexpected issue occur, websites will be without connectivity for approximately five minutes.
All care is being taken to ensure minimal interruption and although the maintenance is unlikely to be noticed or have any impact on service, we endeavour to be proactive in notifying of such maintenance.
As always, if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.
The second improvement is to the promotions feature, which allows you to provide discounts to your customers. Previously it was only possible to have site-wide promotions, now you can optionally select a portfolio for a promotion to be limited to.
The new option is available in the Photo sales settings admin section and is titled "Purchase page".
We're very satisfied with the amount of spam our systems are blocking each day but even a few spam messages getting through is a few too many.
So the spam protection we recently introduced to the guestbooks has been rolled out to the Contact forms, Photo enquiry forms and Photo comments.
There is also now a "Report spam" option present when viewing messages and using this will help to prevent further spam being received.
No extra work is required at the upload stage as all thumbnail generation is handled automatically by the upload systems.
When browsing portfolios on a Photium website where Media RSS is enabled, visitors with PicLens installed will be able to choose to view photos using it. The option for Media RSS feeds to be enabled / disabled is in the General gallery settings admin section.
We'd also like to take this opportunity to apologise for the few guestbook spam messages that some customers will have received in the last week or two and please delete them from your guestbook if you had any.
These anti-spam improvements will soon be implemented on other website sections that spammers target, such as photo comments and contact forms.
The move has taken longer than we anticipated, which we apologise for but our main goal of minimising disruption to all hosted websites has been achieved successfully.
For anyone curious, some of the benefits the new servers provide are:
- Increased processing power - So your websites load faster
- Better reliability - If hardware dies, we'll be up and running again faster
- Superior network connectivity - So pages and images download faster
- Future-proofing - The system is now set up to scale more easily
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