Recently launched DPG powered websites
December 6th, 2009Changelog on Twitter
October 6th, 2009
You can now find an in-depth Digital Photo Gallery changelog on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dpg_changelog.
Custom admin menus
September 16th, 2009You can now add custom navigation items that allow you to quickly jump to all of your favourite sections of the DPG admin site. To add a location, click on the star in the top right hand corner of any of the admin pages and to remove, simply click the star again.
Code validation
August 27th, 2009A new feature for the website builder is automatic validation of CSS and JavaScript code. Validation is performed every time a file is saved and provides a line number and brief description of any errors to aid with debugging.
Import images from a web page
August 12th, 2009A newly added feature is the ability to import images from any standard web page, images can be imported straight into sets and even information such as image titles are retained.
Increased image processing speed
May 19th, 2009
Today I activated the new faster image processing servers, my early tests show that you should see around a 4X speed increase in all image related operations.
Click here for an example of working with a 24.4MP image.
Twitter, Facebook, FTP and Flickr support
May 13th, 2009
Integration with other web services is a prominent feature of Digital Photo Gallery, editing images with Pixlr has been discussed briefly in a previous post and now the latest stable update has introduced two way syncing support for your Twitter, Facebook, FTP and Flickr accounts. To make use of the new features login to http://admin.digtalphotogallery.com and take a look at the ‘Services’ page. Linking your accounts only takes a few clicks and the import and export of images is equally as straight forward, if you have any questions just ask.
On the subject of services, DPG development will very soon be entering a feature freeze as a build up to the next phase of testing. Before that process begins, I’d really appreciate your feedback on which other web services you’d like to see supported. If you have suggestions you can email them to info@digitalphotogallery.com or ‘Share an idea’ at http://getsatisfaction.com/digitalphotogallery.
Get Satisfaction
April 26th, 2009
Although there are many systems setup throughout the DPG software to identify errors, nothing beats human testing. For example, over the last few days there were intermittent problems with the main image processing server that weren’t being caught by the built-in error reporting. The issue was trivial to fix, but it wasn’t identified until I was alerted by email. As such issues affect all users it would be very helpful if they could be shared.
With that in mind, it’s time to move from pure email support to something that everyone can get involved in. To start with we’re going to be trying out Get Satisfaction, using http://getsatisfaction.com/digitalphotogallery you will be able to request new features, share your problems and discuss all aspects of Digital Photo Gallery with fellow users. I’m looking forward to your input.
Geotagging
April 22nd, 2009
Support for geotagging is back in the admin interface. The process is automatic, simply upload your geotagged images, then click the 
icon on the image list or review screen options bar to bring up the map view.
Cooliris support
April 9th, 2009
Cooliris support for websites is back. Click here to watch a movie.