Dynamic grid I - new gallery design
Our new gallery design is called "Dynamic grid I" and it dynamicly repositions your images (with animation) when window size is changed to fit perfectly! A nice and clean gallery desing with preloading animations.
Thank you James Vyn ( ...read more
List text in galleries
Style your list text for each image. Now you can choose to display list text under each images in all galleries.
Flexible gallery description
Now you position your gallery description above or below your gallery images, or choose to not display it at all. You can also add images and custom styles to the description.
Slider - a slidehow start page with different animations
Today we have implemented the a new start page build on a third party module, called slider. This startpage is a slideshow and will let you choose among different type of animaitons. In the settings for this template you can also set the with and height ...read more
Lightbox is here
Many of you guys have requested a lightbox for your galleries, and we are glad to say that we have implemented one now! Login to your accounts and try it! I beautiful lightbox with smooth transitions.
New contact page
Here is a new contact page for our PRO photographers/designers:
New start page template!
The start page "Menu entry II" is a clean start page that displays a title (maybe you company name) and text (slogan) and top level menu elements. We hope you like it!
New gallery design
This is a great looking gallery design:
All fonts you can dream of
Thanks to HTML5, CSS3 and the fantastic community of Open Source heroes you can choose among several Open Source (Very Nice) Fonts when you create a page:
New menu design
Here is a new menu design for you all:
Check out this new menu design
This is one of the most common menus online, but is is still kind of nice:
New gallery design - the oldest one
We added a new gallery design today, and it is actually the first design we ever made for Portfoliobox...
Say What!?
Well, when we remade all templates to HTML5 we removed this one because the codes were horrible. Atleast 200 lines of rubish. With t ...read more
Win a free Pro package including a custom www-address
If you start your portfolio website in September you can join our Facebook competition.
To win you have to create a nice portfolio, promote it, and keep count of the Facebook likes. The portfolios which have the most "Likes" on Facebook will ...read more
Collect your galleries on a webpage
Collections is here! Now you can collect galleries into a collection page (for example, I have collected all my Architecture galleries here: http://www.gustavdegerman.com/collection/36/ ...read more
Everything is HTML5
Portfoliobox supports the latest web tecnology. Now all templates are HTML5.
Check out the video:
Super flexible new menu
If you have not played with the new menu you need to log into your admin panel and do that. It has never been easier to organize your website. With this new menu feature you have more flexibility and you can use Portfoliobox as a proper CMS!
Check out ...read more
Create a blog with Portfoliobox
Now you can use the Portfoliobox CMS to blog! You can blog pictures, text, articles, videos and even GALLERIES. You can style every post as you which. It is really cool. Check out this video to learn how:
Full screen picture viewer available
Some of you had requested a full screen picture viewer for you galleries, and here it is! The new picture viewer scales the pictures to full screen and is very clean. We have chosen to not show any comments here. If you click on the right half of the wi ...read more
Your new admin-panel
Portfoliobox has a new admin-panel... and we dare to say that it is beatuiful! We have worked hard with this new design and we hope you will like it. Since many of you are interested in photo, art and form we wanted to make it stylish and suitable for y ...read more
New gallery design
Some of our clients have requested a horizontal gallery design with large images. Well, here it is... This new template is called 'Horizontal Scroll - III' and it is built to automatically adjust your images so that they fit in all types of scre ...read more
Better support for your social media
We are working on a section in the admin-panel devoted to marketing and social media. That is important for all designers, photographers and other who are doing business online. Now you can add Facebook likes, Twitter follows, Flickr, LinkedIn and AddTh ...read more
New menu structure in admin- let us know what you think
Do you like it? Do you hate it? Is it easier? More intuitive? Let us know!
Contact forms are now available for Pro-users!
Let people email you from yourn Site. This gives your site a more professional look.
Using your custom domain name
If you have upgraded to the Pro Account and would like to use your own domain, you can do this in one of following ways:
Option A. Create an A-record for your domain and point it to 109.73.167.30
Option B. Change the name servers for your domai ...read more
New preferences for the Slide show template
The start page template “Slide show” has now support for choosing the images you wish to present in the slideshow.
Hide the Admin button in the menu
I think everybody should hide the admin button in the main menu. It just looks more professional that way! The only reason we included it to the menu is because we got tons of emails from people complaining that they couldn’t find the admin sectio ...read more
Color space - dark and scary
Sometimes we get questions about why the photos you upload don’t look the same as they do when you open them on your computer. This has to do with color spaces.
In order to describe colors in a computer it needs to be done by a mathematical mode ...read more
Private galleries in depth
Private galleries are really useful for personal photos or client photos. All galleries can at any time be switched from public to private and vice versa. This can be done in the following way:
Go to Edit->Galleries
Click on Edit for the gal ...read more
ABC of Password groups
Password groups are used to set passwords on private galleries. But there is much more to it than simply setting a password for a gallery.
Lets say that we create the following password groups:
friends
family
client 1
And they obviousl ...read more
Add your URL to Google
Add your url to Google manually, if your site is not indexed by google already.
Link: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Use any gallery or page as your "start page"
Many of our clients have requested to the functionality to use any existing page or gallery as the start-page. Well, now that is possible. For example, if you chose one of your galleries as the start page the user will arrive there, but the url will sti ...read more
Meta description
When google indexes your site it will use the site title and the available meta description as the descriptive text in the search result.
It is therefor really good to set the meta description for your site. You can find this setting under Settings ...read more