Followup on Embedded AOL Pictures Albums and Other R11B Things

Hi folks -- hope you all had a good weekend. Here's where we on followups from last week's R11b Journals release, as I mentioned on Friday:

The team has been working on a fix to re-add the Classic (non-Flash), slideshow-style AOL Pictures embedded albums back into Journals entries. When this happens, all previously published galleries will go back to the old style (with captions and the forward/back arrows).

Then, for newly created embedded albums, they'll be letting you choose between two radio-style buttons for Classic (HTML) galleries and the newer woohoo style (Flash) galleries (which will also have a pulldown menu so you can choose from the 6 woohoo styles).

Right now, the default selection will be for the newer, woohoo style galleries, but the option for the Classic galleries will be right there as a simple click of the radio button, and I've asked that they look into "remembering" that preference. You can also express your preference for the default behavior at the team's R11b test blog.

The team has also been working on some additional fixes for some other items (some relatively minor, others only affecting specific International locales).

Now, here's what the tentative timing looks like for pushing those changes live:

* Do a couple of builds tomorrow (Tuesday, 5/22)

* Test, verify and push fixes to Beta on Wednesday, 5/23

* Push live to production early Thursday morning

Now, please keep in mind -- the team is working hard, but if they find any problems, we're running right up against the Memorial Day holiday installation moratorium (the Ops folks don't like for things to be installed before long holiday weekends, since it's that much harder to track down the people in case something goes wrong). So we'll keep you posted as to status.

Lastly for right now, check out Christopher's first video blog entry using the new Webrecorder (that lets you record Webcam video directly to your Journal), which is another of the new R11B features.

Remember, if you've got your own Webrecorder video, let me know by sending a link.

Thanks -- Joe

Tags: aol journals, r11b, woohoo, aol pictures

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#7 Comment from bgilmore725
5/22/07 10:39 PM | Permalink

My question is related to adding photos to my journal. Now when I use the photo icon, it tells me I can choose from three sizes. In the old days I could select medium for example, then tweak it a bit smaller if I wanted to. or do the same with the large setting. Today, I tried to tweak a photo smaller using the little squares around the photo, you know, reduce the size a bit from top to bottom and left to right. Looked like I was doing it. I saved it. But the photo remained a very large medium. I tried the small size photo version, but it was small enough for the sidebar, and too small for what I needed in the entry. Is there a way to change the size of the photo, you know, to get in between the small and medium and large preset sizes after it is uploaded? I liked it the way we could manipulate a photo before the changes to the photo tools were made. What say you, Joe? Bea

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#6 Comment from journalseditorEntry Author
5/22/07 6:31 PM | Permalink

Hi folks -- the gallery fix should just be a click of a radio button (one of those round buttons that looks kind of like a googly eye when you click it) to choose between classic and animated styles.

When the fix goes in, the classic gallery style will include the previously used captions (they will be pulling from your AOL Pictures albums, which haven't been touched.)

Thanks -- Joe
#5 Comment from pharmolo
5/22/07 12:42 PM | Permalink

How are the people at AOL Hat UK getting on with sorting their problem? I'm still going French for logging on to my journal :-\
#4 Comment from ceilisundancer
5/22/07 10:03 AM | Permalink

I really like having options!, and some of the other woo-hoo are okay / fun, for SOME sets of photos. I also tried a second way of adding a photo (and not having it move all around), which I didn't know how to do previous to you taking the time to list the specific steps. So, thanks to you and the whole team. Moving forward is one thing, including things as options is better:)
#3 Comment from luvmort
5/22/07 12:48 AM | Permalink

Are the captions we originally put on our albums going to be there or are we going to have to redo each and every single one of them? Which would...umm...suck, by the way.

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