Singela is a lively and good-humored handwritten typeface, hand crafted by Erica Jung and Ricardo Marcin, type designers and graphic artists from Brazil.

Perfect for giving your site a whimsical look, Singela offers a nonchalant spontaneity with a feeling of childlike delight. It displays a variable and cheerfully random effect through the mixing of its upper and lower case letters.

Singela is now available for all of PhotoBiz’s HTML5 products.

This Throwback Thursday we’re helping you bring a retro look and feel to your website with the release of our latest background tiles! These are now available in your PhotoBiz Control Panel, and can be used with all of our HTML5 products.

The Rhythm and Hues Tile is based on a 70’s era wallpaper design. The beige and baby blue color scheme was a big hit back in the day, and it’s neutral color palette will allow your images to take center stage. 

You can give your site an entirely different retro look with the Funkytown Transparent background. Remember ‘Op Art’? The psychedelic white pattern on this background has transparent sections that allow it to be used over any background color to truly personalize your site. Try it with our industry leading color-shifting technology; the color will change for each image to fully customize your background.

We’ve had a lot of fun this Throwback Thursday with these retro background tiles and hope you will too!

One of the most popular features of our old PhotoBiz Cart system was the ability to allow your customers to purchase additional prints for any product for an extra charge. We liked that feature, too. In fact we liked it so much, we’ve brought it back for our E-Commerce tool!

The Additional Images feature is designed to work with individual products, such as an album. To enable it, go to the Details section of the product. You’ll be able to configure the number of additional photos available to add to a product, along with the price.

Using this feature is as easy as can be for your customers! When they browse through your product information, they’ll see a message letting them know how many additional photos they can add to a product, and how much each additional photo will cost.

Once the customer places the product in their cart, they’ll be able to browse their event for photos to add to the product just as before. On products with this feature enabled, however, once they’ve added the maximum number of photos they’ll see a message letting them know they can select additional photos for the fee you set.

They can then continue to browse through the images, and will have the option to purchase additional images for the fee shown.

We’re pretty excited to see this old favorite again, and we think you’ll agree!

Just released today, we have a new font and two new backgrounds available for you on all our HTML5 products!

The new font, NotSassure, was developed by using excessive photocopying with extreme enlargements and reductions to magnify the imperfections. This helped to rough the edges and give NotSassure a non-digital quality.

Cool Spring Chevron and Chevron Transparent both display a chevron pattern set up in tiled format for fast page loading. Chevron Transparent is a transparent PNG that allows your background color to show through the chevron pattern. Cool Spring Chevron is an opaque JPG in a fresh, lighthearted Spring pastel. Both can be used with all of our HTML5 products.

We think you’ll enjoy these fresh, fun new elements!

We’re always looking for ways to make our website solutions work just a little bit harder for you and your customers. Today, we have not one, but four to share! 

• NEW grid view for Content Site and Business Solution gallery pages
• NEW focal point editor for Content Site and Business Solution gallery pages
• NEW music for Content Site and Business Solution galleries
• NEW custom social media icons for HTML5 Portfolio Sites

Grid View for Gallery Pages

We want to introduce you to our latest innovation, grid view for gallery pages!

Until now gallery pages on the Content Sites and Business Solutions opened with a single large image. Now you can also choose from several layouts that will display all the image thumbnails in the gallery at once.

By clicking any individual image in the grid layout, you will open the image in large view mode. The images will then display in a slideshow format. The large view mode even works with our color-shifting technology, as shown below.

To return to the grid view, simply click on the icon in the bottom right corner of the page. Your visitors can toggle back and forth between the two views just that easily.

Another nice feature we’ve added to the grid view is endless scroll. No matter how many images your gallery has, your visitors won’t have to click through pages to see them. The image thumbnails load as they scroll down the page!

So, how do you use this new feature? Couldn’t be easier – you can select from several available grid view layout styles right in your control panel, including collage, collage large, rectangle, rectangle large, and square.

We think you’ll love the ease and style of grid view for your gallery pages.

Edit Focal Point

Another new feature for your Content Sites and Business Solutions gallery pages is the ability to edit your image focal point. Now when you upload an image, you’ll be able to select the focal point of the image to determine how it will display on your page. This allows you much greater control over how your images will display within the grid layouts!

This feature works with the Rectangle, Rectangle Large, and Square page layouts for our Content Sites and Business Solutions.

Gallery Page Music

In addition, you can now play music on your HTML5 Content Sites and Business Solutions gallery pages!

You can select up to three songs to play in order on your gallery pages, as one song finishes the next starts. Choose from among our selection of more than 50 royalty-free songs, or upload your own royalty-free music to play (upload as an MP3) as your images display.

Custom Icons for HTML5 Portfolio Sites

One of our favorite recent innovations was giving you the ability to add custom social media icons to your HTML5 Content Sites and Business Solutions. We liked it so much we’ve now added it to the HTML5 Portfolio Sites!

From your control panel, click on Add Icon and you’ll be able to either choose from among our extensive bank of social media icons, or upload your own as a PNG image, to a maximum size of 16×16 pixels. Once you upload your custom icon, you’ll be able to use it to link to your chosen social media page!

We think you’ll enjoy the way these new features will show off your style!