Site Upgrade: Gallery, Profiles and more…

by Wes Burke

CG Cookie has upgraded to a new custom gallery system which will provide more of a community experience while viewing the gallery and site. We’ve been able to cram in a few more features on the tail end of this update that I would like to take you through.

Updated Style

First and foremost, the gallery and user dashboard have been given a facelift. We felt the previous style of the gallery was already showing its age and so we spent a while on the design to make everything cleaner, easier to read, simpler to navigate, and all around easier on the eyes.

Previous/Next Image Browsing

Perhaps the most requested feature, when browsing the gallery you can now navigate to the previous or next image in the gallery right from the image page.

Following / Followers

Twitter started this trend and it turns out it is a good trend to follow ;) You can now follow other users work, to be notified when they post new images. This is a great way to view updates from your favorite artists on the network.

Expanded Profiles

Each member of CG Cookie now has an enhanced profile page to showcase their artwork per site which include social links and information about them. The goal of this page is to provide a landing page to showcase your artwork to friends, family and businesses. From this page you have the ability to view image states, view users you’re following and those followers of your work.

Badges

Another part of the expanded profiles is a full badge system! Users will now receive badges for various things, such as being a Citizen member, winning a contest and others. A full list of the available badges will be coming soon!

Newsletter Sign-up

It’s now easier than ever to sign up for our various CG Cookie network newsletters. You may now manage your newsletter subscription straight from your user dashboard on CG Cookie.

Love an Image

If you see an image you love, you can let the author know by clicking the heart icon below the image.

Upload image status

Authors now have the ability to mark an image as in-progress or finished during the upload process. This will help direct the type of comments and feedback the author is looking to receive.

Expanded Control Panel

The side control panel has received an upgrade as well. You will now receive updates from users that you’re following and there is a new tab for your favorite images.

 

We are certain there are a few lingering bugs on the site. If you happen to find some please be sure to send us an e-mail to [email protected]. Thank you again for hanging with us on the site!

 

 

Discussion

28 Responses to “Site Upgrade: Gallery, Profiles and more…”
  1. Richard Hoatland
    Posts: 5

    Seems alot of stuff is broke atm, but Im sure you all will get it fixed. They will be nice features when done.

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     May 23, 2012 at 5:16 pm
    • Abidal Sarraj
      Posts: 35

      just reload the page Or delete temps

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       May 23, 2012 at 5:18 pm
    • Joe Thomas
      Posts: 5

      seems so to me too. lots of little errors on the page

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       May 24, 2012 at 6:57 am
  2. Abidal Sarraj
    Posts: 35

    Wow, Nice update guys XD
    Wish you all the best..

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     May 23, 2012 at 5:16 pm
  3. holyenigma
    Posts: 25

    congrats. :P

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     May 23, 2012 at 5:16 pm
  4. Math
    Posts: 5

    Congrats to your efforts & new structure. But for my needs way too much floating intro video, we all know to navigate, much better to highlight your new stuff and offers only, showing new possibilities.
    Anyways, best blender site no doubt, best wishes for further and tx for all your good offers!

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     May 23, 2012 at 5:23 pm
  5. Paul Barrett
    Posts: 5

    Always exciting to get upgrades – thanks!

    If anyone is seeing the layout a bit jumbled up then make sure to hit CTRL+F5 (not just F5) to do a full refresh. Some of the old site can be cached locally on your machine and this will clear it out. When I logged in, the site was a bit all over the place and CTRL+F5 did the trick to fix it!

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     May 23, 2012 at 5:25 pm
  6. Wes Burke
    Posts: 431

    Thanks guys – Anxious to see the profile pages come online with main images and such.

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     May 23, 2012 at 5:35 pm
  7. Kemar McInnis
    Posts: 16

    I love the changes, site looks odd in chrome though o.0

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     May 23, 2012 at 5:47 pm
  8. Simon Ekström
    Posts: 8

    set the z-index for the menu ;)

    YouTube Videos are overlapping the Menu (atleast in Chrome)

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     May 23, 2012 at 7:19 pm
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2971

      Not overlapping any more :) Thanks for the heads up.

      -Jonathan

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       May 23, 2012 at 7:29 pm
      • Simon Ekström
        Posts: 8

        It’s back, it was working fine for a day after your replay, but now it’s overlapping again.

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         May 24, 2012 at 1:57 pm
  9. George Lakie
    Posts: 85

    Love the new site. Where’s the little heart so I can check it.

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     May 23, 2012 at 8:05 pm
  10. Daniel Bonnett
    Posts: 9

    Wes, I see Johnathan has a Author hat. You should have a Boss hat or El Dictator for Life hat.

    On a separate note, I’d love to see a Google+ link to go along with Facebook and Twitter. Profiles are displaying as a big “list” in Chrome, pushing all the images below the page footer. I refreshed a couple of times and they still display funny. Firefox works great.

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     May 23, 2012 at 9:18 pm
  11. Erick Leao
    Posts: 7

    Is very good this new site… Congratulation

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     May 23, 2012 at 10:29 pm
  12. Chris Himmelsbach
    Posts: 12

    Great new features, thanks guys!

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     May 24, 2012 at 5:27 am
  13. christian bretteus
    Posts: 14

    The new site is great. but it’s not working very well for me thoe. I guess thoes errors I’m getting time to time will get fixed eventually. But still great :)

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     May 24, 2012 at 10:46 am
    • Jonathan Williamson
      Posts: 2971

      Hi Christian,

      Try refreshing your browser a few times. It likely a caching problem.

      -Jonathan

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       May 24, 2012 at 10:56 am
      • christian bretteus
        Posts: 14

        thanks for the suggestion it works a bit easyer to day

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         May 25, 2012 at 12:34 pm
  14. tarik bagriyanik
    Posts: 1024

    for “internet explorer 9″ your site looks ok but for “chrome 19″ it looks seperated and a little slow… i mostly use chrome :(

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     May 24, 2012 at 10:59 am
  15. Carlos Guiao Panganiban
    Posts: 22

    I kinda missed the “Recent Submissions” side widget…
    Can you add it again?

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     May 26, 2012 at 9:44 pm
  16. Thomas
    Posts: 6

    I would like to see a feature where I can “Bookmark” a tutorial and I can go there on my profile and look at all of the tuts I want to watch. I know I could bookmark them in my browser, but it would be easier if I could just do one click on the page.

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     May 31, 2012 at 1:00 am
    • Wes Burke
      Posts: 431

      Are you thinking of having a “favorites” type widget on your profile public page?

      You can favorite a tutorial within the site now though, but maybe not fully to what you are suggesting.

      When on a tutorial there are blue buttons below the video which allow to favorite. Open up your side control panel or visit your favorites in your account dashboard.

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       May 31, 2012 at 8:31 am
      • Thomas
        Posts: 6

        Oh! That’s exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

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         May 31, 2012 at 2:24 pm

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