Feature Requests: [Sticky] Website Brainstorming!

Hey everyone! For those who don't know me, I'm Mike. I'm the Director of User Experience here at Scrapblog, which is a fancy way of saying that I'm in charge of the design of Scrapblog.com and the Scrapblog Builder.

I want to open things up a bit, and hear some of your ideas on how we can improve the Scrapblog website. When I say website, I am *not* referring to the Builder, but rather the Viewer, My Scrapblogs, Explore, Home, etc.

What do you love?
What bugs the heck out of you?
What features would you like to see added?

We want to hear it all, the good, the bad, and the ugly!

Great suggestions, and you'll be happy to know that many of these have already been swirling around in our heads.

Keep them coming! :)

all that Karen said, plus, and this is something I have suggested since early times in Scrapblog:
we need a REPLY button.
if someone writes something in my SB, I have to go to their page to answer, then other people dont have a clue what we are talking about.....
to me that's important, as it is the organising friends and the private message system...
the Forums should be more obvious in the SB page....
and also:
(and this would be linked with my suggestion of making paid accounts, something like PRO members @ Flickr, and so many other places)
the privacy settings:
we should be able to click on our friends here to invite to view....
I only have a few of my friends here's email addys....
then when one wants to publish by invite.... you need to go around asking email addresses, and some people, though they are keen on you viewing their SBs, don't want to post their email publicly.....
:)
all these just of the top of my head, as it is (againnnnnnnnn!!!!! lol) so late here in London and I need sleeeeeeep!!!! lol
anyway, Mike, thanks for the attention,
we love SB!!!!!
Cynthia

This probably isn't what you're looking for, but I miss seeing weekly postings in the "blog"... the blog has been kind of quiet lately. Also, I'd like to see more user "profiles"! It's a great way to get to know the user community and showcase their work! :)

Karen

Oh, could we also be given the option to edit and delete our own comments, which we leave on other users scrapblogs??? This is another feature I've seen over on SIStv.... :)

agree with you bubblee.
all these issues (I reckon) could be sorted if we could have a better registration system, and then the choice of having a paid account....
then people wouldn't be able to have *ghost* pages, security would increase...
I'm not sure if I'm clear here, but I'm talking about the people who don't make hardly any SBs, have no profile at all and keep trolling the site....

But there is a huge issue here, which I will write about with my feedback:
the fact that the main and most important thing is that the search is painfully slow.
I have found the way to search the new content fast and beautifully: by going to the *stores*.
In there it goes, it flows.
But if one ones to search on the *least credits* or free stuff...... well..... that si almost torture.
No matter how many new features you include, how gorgeous all is, if it takes an eternity to get images....
this does not only happen with stickers, but also with retrieving images from Photobucket, for example....

Don't get me wrong: I love the site, I'm devoted, is the best site in the whole net, but one cannot deny that issue.
This also extends to viewing other ppl's SBs....
Some (and this does not necessarily applies only to SBs with many pages, sometimes as much as 4 pages will present slowness)
take ages to do the buffering, and in some cases it shows the fisrt page, then stays so long to go into the other pages that I have to give up....

again: I know you guys do a fabulous job,
just pointing out what I experience.

:)

Sherry:
I reckon the problem with the printing you have has to do with your printer settings....
I print on A4 and , though prints a tiny bit smaller than A4 , the whole SB comes up....
but the resolution of the pictures I'm not sure it is the correct one....still, I have printed amazingly well...
I ll try to private message you my email, then I can try (I'm bad at this! lol) explain you how I do it....
I wallpapered a whole bit of my living room with Scrapblogs last year.....
:)

when ever i try to print things they look kinda blurry and i can see the pixels...I had a book printed by you guys and it was absolutly perfect and beautiful. how come when i take things to be printed it doesnt work???? like i said its blurry and pixels. Is there anyway to fix that???? I would love to see more options on your printing, because i would totally pay to have you print them....I would love to see like 5x7 cards front and back etc. I love to make invitations, and save the date cards but not in a postcard form. i like front and back.
do you have any idea's on how to get things to export out of scrapblog with out them getting ruined???

Norbert: when I grow up', I wanna be you!

Yes,and I think u ok find lots of us ok be willing
To pay accounts to see all this happening...

Apologies for brevity but, though I love being able to be with u
Practically everywhere, write on a keybord half
Ur palm size isn't easy for an' old lady like me!!! LOL

Great list, Norbert!!!!! Love the idea of small thumbnails for our own scrapblogs! That would solve one of my problems!

Love the idea of improved speed in the BLOG... I'd love to go through and visit previous posts in the BLOG, but it's usually too cumbersome!

:)

I agree with everyone elses suggestions.

I'd like to be able to mark stickers and backgrounds as favorites so that I don't have to go searching for them everytime I want to use them.

Maybe kind of like the Love It! button for the scrapblogs, you could do a Love It! button for the stickers and backgrounds! :)

Great tips & ideas everyone! I'm going to go tag the stickers & backgrounds that I use alot to prevent from searching all over the place for them! What a great time saver! Love you guys!

Sherry

Hey Cynthia!

I haven't had any problems in tagging elements, but if I do, I'll let you know! I haven't seen that error message you're receiving... it seems very strange!

Karen

I would love to move my friends. Like the ones I really am close to in the front and the ones that are just regular friends in the middle and the ones not so much in the back! That would be cool!

I would also love to see more postings on the Blog... it's been kind of quiet there, lately! :)

:) Just saw your blog posting, Rebecca... thanks! I always look forward to your postings! I read all of them, so keep them coming! :)

Karen

I agree!!!! Rebecca is the greatest! :)

Let's give Rebecca a virtual SBlog Academy award for best "User Support" service indded: how do we call this award?

The "Carlos" sounds good: who will design the little statue/award?

I think these are all great ideas! Keep them coming!

Hi Everyone! Great ideas and tips as always. Thanks MikeGee for starting this and for caring what the scrapblog community thinks.

Now, sorry to be a downer but I miss the old way everything was organized by theme.
I probably will not be able to use scrapblog as much because it ALREADY took me forever to search for stickers and backgrounds I wanted to use.
now, I have to sift through paid content along with the free stuff, it's very frustrating.
Can you have a free tab at the top to make it easier?
It is especially frustrating because you see a nice element and it turns out you have to pay for it. This is my first time back in a long while and it was a frustrating experience looking for elements.
Thanks for listening to me gripe.

Lucy

LUcy: (AlohaBailey)
you can search without getting the paid content...

in the top of the stickers/backgrounds, you have choices:

click *Least Credits*

it works for me, but still....
the theme thing was much easier, I know, I asked for that to be back.

Though if we want something which we particularly know to be on a theme, you can do (like Karen well pointed)
open new page> from a theme>
then it will show you the themes...

The problem I have found on this way is that, in the very old themes, like Urban Media or the very first themes, some of the stickers don't show up....


Crueincute:

there is a way to put them on DVD, only the resolution I'm not sure will do, but you could try this:

when you are in the builder, click on the left hand side to EXPORT AS JPG (dont remember if it says File or what right now, I havent slept lol)
once you have them in your PC as JPG, you can use the Windows Movie Maker , collect as many as you want, then put some music on, do the transitions....
and it should work fine... I did it for YouTube, not sure it will work with a DVD because the resolution of the photos is shrunk in order to make the viewer better... they do keep the original resolution for printing, when you order with SB.....


Anyway,
hope this helps :)

Cynthia

thank you so much mrspeel and nbarnich! i'll definitely be trying all these options and ill let you know how it works out!

id still love to be able to order some though... maybe they could give us a way to create a cover and label for them? that would rock. :)

I'd like to be able to take some of my photos out of the builder as I build. It doesn't matter much for regular scrapblogs but when creating one that you have tons of photos.. to take some out of the builder and put them back into the "photo save" would be great!

Girls:
don't get me wrong, but I think we should start another post with all these last few concerns.

this post Mike has done is not to do with the technicalities of the composing, not the builder, but the home page design, the general stuff on the pages itself, not the Scrapblogs or the builder...
but I think it would be a really good idea to start a thread with these last issues.

:)

Hello to Everyone! I am new here and I am definetly already an addict. I just finished putting together a Navy SB for my daughter a Navy Girl of 8 years for the Second time! LOL

The first time I accidently deleted it. What I am suggesting is that for the edit/delete not to either be so close together OR when you click the delete button a pop up asks if you are sure.

I was so frustrated I wanted to cry when that happened and I didn't bother coming back for a couple of days until my heart could take it. Sorry for the long suggestion but it would be greatly helpful for future mistakes. Thank you in advance also for reading my suggestion.