Andre. said at 9:51 a.m. on Oct 24, 2009:
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/group/tabblo-discuss/?s=auto_249631#topic2108

http://www.tabblo.com/studio/group/tabblo-discuss/?s=auto_249631#topic2107

http://www.tabblo.com/studio/group/tabblo-discuss/?s=auto_249631#topic2106

Hope this helps

Candlepower said at 5:55 p.m. on Sep 25, 2009:
Very intersting Patty! Thank you for finding this for us.

Ned said at 12:37 p.m. on Sep 26, 2009:
I'm not sure what the Globe & Mail is up to, but this piece sounds like it was written in 2006. There's no mention of HP owning Tabblo, we no longer sell frames, etc. I think this is an old column accidentally dated this year.

Pattymaryclare said at 9:51 p.m. on Sep 26, 2009:
Thx Ned and I kinda thot the same thing - it was an online google search actually that I did...having been sent a 'screenshot' from another tabblo/another country/continet that said u were preparing/programming etc?? to offer a sort of 'stock photos dept. on Tabblo for sale of your own pics' etc...plus way back in whenever that article came out ...it mentioned Antonio's vision of same deal. However, When i 'read the article' there was a huge HP ad beside it - of no matter! You ARE marketing this as an international site yes/no? Why then can't you ship your products outside U.S. and again any news ON 'the coming soon said Eric' search bar? any news at all? Thanks for your speedy response and I thot it kind of 'hinky' too this mis-dated online article......Patty (have a good weekend)

Pattymaryclare said at 5:49 p.m. on Sep 28, 2009:
helloooooo? anybody home?...LOL

Ned, Antonio...any answers forthcoming to my 'other' questions greatly appreciated:
i.e. 1. INTERNATIONAL PHOTOG. SITE = INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING CAPABILITY? why only U.S.. WE ALL BUY HP products even my printer is one...(smile)
2. THE MENTION OF A 'SELL' PHOTOS THRU TABBLO IDEA? OR ABANDONED?
3. THE 'MIA' soon to be re-instated (the 12th of never? {;-) search bar?

Your friendly bug (OOPS! tigers and lions...it appears you've been bugged!)AGAIN ....in all good fun guyz but all seriousness too! PMC

Ericf said at 8:39 a.m. on Aug 3, 2009:
There is a problem with the editing tools and how they work in IE8 so you'll experience the exact problems you've described. I recommend using Firefox or IE7 until we update the code, which we're in the process of working on. I apologize for the inconvenience.

Eric Foster
HP/Tabblo Support

Grandbrother said at 2:18 p.m. on Aug 3, 2009:
Great to know! Thanks!

Pattymaryclare said at 5:34 p.m. on Jul 9, 2009:
HEY!! what happend to all our posts? yikes.....this IS tabblo DISCUSS RIGHT? that was a 'discussion thread'....'dazed and confused' help me out here hunter s.!!!!! oh right he too is 'gone'.....
LOL

Lifequest22 said at 6:02 p.m. on Jul 9, 2009:
I think we have some censorship here.

Ericf said at 6:53 p.m. on Jul 9, 2009:
I figured I'd have time to eat dinner before someone typed the word "Censorship." =)

No censorship here. My first post was incorrect. The functionality change only affected tabblo members, not everyone. I made a post that I was removing it and replacing it with correct information,

Sorry about the confusion.

Lifequest22 said at 7:26 p.m. on Jul 9, 2009:
LOL---Hope you had a good dinner. Didn't see a post about removing. Too bad cuz it was such a good rant.

So I hope I understand this now. The invitations can still be sent to people outside of tabblo BUT for tabblo members to receive an invite, they must be in one's circle and one must be in their circle. So for example, if PKeener is in my circle but i am not in hers, then if I were to send her an invite, she would not receive it. Is this correct.

And what is the rationale behind this Eric. I understood your explaination the first time re: spam, which made sense. But this is a bit perplexing. The only reason I can figure out is that someone has complained about receiving invites that they find bothersome from other tabbloers .

Any way, hope you enjoyed dinner and have some good desert. ....Linda

Ericf said at 8:19 a.m. on Jul 10, 2009:
We did have people complaining about receiving invitations without requesting them. Again, I'm sorry about the reposting...I just didn't want the incorrect information out there and I thought it would be confusing.

Pattymaryclare said at 10:03 a.m. on Jul 10, 2009:
Well then....so we CAN NOT AGAIN invite outside tabblo membership peeps via email AND inside tabblo via their user name only? separated by a comman as well? (CANT SEE DOING THAT MYSELF UNLESS YOU JUST WANTED THAT ONE OR TWO TO SEE IT) this could take the place of the sporadic no notifications malfunction!?! LOL TY FOR REPLACING the private email ability !!! pmc

Pattymaryclare said at 10:05 a.m. on Jul 10, 2009:
typos!!!! sheesh WE CAN'NOW' AGAIN INVITE .....

Ericf said at 12:51 p.m. on Jul 10, 2009:
Yep. This change only effects sending invitations to people within Tabblo. Ff you've added someone to your circle but they haven't added you, they will not get your invite. You can still invite anyone you want outside of Tabblo

Ericf said at 9:04 a.m. on May 21, 2009:
Good Morning Andre,

No, there is no way to delete messages in your sent folder. I've got an enhancement request in with the engineers for that very thing. I also thought it would be nice to paginate the messages too so that pages doesn't take so long to load.

The time table, as it currently stands, is to focus on Tabblo improvements in the next month, so I'll continue to push for these updates. This team has quite a bit on the docket and I'm trying to keep Tabblo.com as bright a blip on the radar as I possibly can.


Eric Foster
HP/Tabblo Support Staff

Andre. said at 4:58 p.m. on May 21, 2009:
Thank you Eric

Andre. said at 7:37 a.m. on May 16, 2009:
LOL I would not rant about it anymore. It's a "business" issue and not the technical one. Search box is offered on Blogger as a free gadget. No big deal.

Kevinb5 said at 5:54 p.m. on May 17, 2009:
Dang! When I asked my question last week, I had no idea it was so emotional. I've since learned that a real simple tool is to search in google with "SEARCH site:www.tabblo.com" (where SEARCH = whatever you're searching for).

Leaves me wondering why someone would expend so much energy in badmouthing a site instead of just using another. I like Tabblo, personally.

Pattymaryclare said at 6:08 p.m. on May 17, 2009:
Hello Kevin whoever you are - likely fairly new and not fully knowledgable about all the functionality issues some of we 'older/longer' tabbloers have 'badmouthed, asked, begged, pleaded with about!....firstly, I didnt start this thread and secondly, badmouthing as you term it IS A BAD OR WRONG word IN THIS CONTEXT!

We are simply sharing information that we gather and some call it rant (again I didn't start that word either) and MY INPUT was not meant to state anything other than what a professional computer developer/progammer knows about certain questions....QUESTIONS YOU YOURSELF BEGAN ASKING not very long ago. I'm actually now sorry I ever got involved yet again.

We had a searchbar in the site Kevin....and we miss it. ok? ok! pmc out

Pattymaryclare said at 7:00 p.m. on May 17, 2009:
About Tabblo Discuss
"This group is to chat about Tabblo in general."

Their group description, not mine nor anyone else who does just that here....'CHATTING' is a far nicer word than 'BADMOUTHING'....the exchange of information and, if required for some, 'emotions'...GOOD OR BAD. (really out!)

Andre. said at 7:19 p.m. on May 15, 2009:
That tale is far longer than my cat’s tail. But what is my “nospeakenglish” anyway? LOL. A beautiful Latent’ rant is far better. I read it once in a while. And he ACTUALLY left...

http://www.tabblo.com/studio/group/tabblo-issues/#topic1714

Pattymaryclare said at 8:04 p.m. on May 15, 2009:
Well thanks Andre that was indeed a 'beautiful rant' and I shall read it every so often as well as I wasnt member of this groupt the...as was yours Lindarequest! Funny you mentioned the schoolkids 'cause just the other day a 'geek' very close to me said he could write the code for that in no time at all....something smells very fishy and it ain't my 'puter!?! lol (first we all believed that perhaps it was a licensing issue with losing the picasa plug-in. WILL THE POWERS THAT BE PLEASE stop TAKING THE 5TH (6th 7th 8th lol) on this and TELL US THE TRUTH!!!

thank you ..my rants are 'babystep' rants....thanks again as I mentioned it in 'passing' just below here and AS USUAL got no reply....(p.s. IM' GETTING MEGA GUEST VIEWS AGAIN - IS ANYONE ELSE?) PMC OUT

Andre. said at 8:54 p.m. on May 15, 2009:
Some efforts revived

http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1592044/

Lifequest22 said at 10:53 p.m. on May 15, 2009:
Andre--thanks for the link to Latente's rant. And your search box tab. the interesting thing is that Tabblo used to have a search function. And they removed it. Why? Eric never did explain that to us. Life can be so cruel at times

Andre. said at 10:59 p.m. on May 15, 2009:
Linda, not THEY removed it . HP removed it! Too much traffic...I guess.

Lifequest22 said at 11:53 p.m. on May 15, 2009:
well, whomever removed it--it was a totally random act of senselessness. eric has said that he keeps talking to the engineers and has not gotten any where.

Pattymaryclare said at 12:31 a.m. on May 16, 2009:
SEE ABOVE NEW POST Andre and Linda.....some answers may be there??

Pattymaryclare said at 12:43 a.m. on May 16, 2009:
I don't know about 'discussing' this anymore but I'm taking my post directly to Tabblo Issues group....and directing them back to your comments here guyz and dollz....copy/paste can be a 'wonderul thing'. (THIS is very 'Canadian' like - everyone sits around complaining about the high taxes but don't get proactive like joining the Cdn Taxpayers Assoc. et al...lol and out! )

DEE-Trow said at 4:58 p.m. on May 18, 2009:
I wondered about this. I've been with Tabblo for almost 3 years and we used to have a Search bar to find other users. I'm not around as much as I used to be but was surprised a few months ago when I looked for it and couldn't find it. I wonder why they did away with it because it is definitely necessary. I still love Tabblo and I find other ways to work around this problem. Hopefully somebody will get on this soon!

Lifequest22 said at 2:40 p.m. on May 15, 2009:
Kevin--Tabblo is a very unique site. the engineers seem to refuse to give us a simple search engine. Eric F has been asking for one for over a year but his requests fall of deaf ears.

But this makes Tabblo like a site from the early days of the internet. So we all feel as though we are in a land that time passed over. While other sites continue to grow and expand, Tabblo remains in the dark ages. LOL.

I was talking to some kids at one of our local Tampa grammar schools about the problem and they said they would be willing to create a search engine as a school project for Tabblo. They figured they could work on it during their lunch break in the school cafeteria. Said it would only take a week or so to get it completed. And their teacher said she would give them extra credit.

I'm sorry Tabbo gods, Gretel made me say this. Or maybe it was Andre. Or I think it may have been Leftofcenter.

Ned said at 7:21 a.m. on May 14, 2009:
It was a spam message. I deleted it.

Pattymaryclare said at 10:58 a.m. on May 14, 2009:
Thanks Ned (and Eric!) for quickly getting on and getting rid of the spammers (I HAD WONDERED about all those new no pic avatar 'groups') NOW......about the 'no notification' issues intermittently or quite often it seems?? lol And that EVER ELUSIVE and not mentioned lack of a SEARCH BAR?!? (smile)

Pattymaryclare said at 9:24 a.m. on Apr 28, 2009:
AND I JUST GOT THIS ONE TABBLO...definitely we're being spammed!! CAN YOU DO ANYTHING ABOUT MORE SPAM FILTERS ETC TABBLO?? THIS IS NOW JUST LIK MYSPACE HAS BECOME...........YIKES!~pmc

From: mamaregato To: pattymaryclare
Date: April 28, 2009 Actions: Reply Save Mark as new Delete
Reply Move to Inbox Mark as new Delete

Hello,
Nice to meet you, how is everything, hope all is well with you. My name is Madam Avelin Regato, I found your contact after reading your profile I picked interest to contact you. I've something very important which I would love to share with you privately, therefore, would advise you to kindly write me back on: ( regatoavelin@live.fr) so that I'll give you details. Waiting anxiously for your anticipated corporation,
Yours,
Madam Avelin
Email me on: regatoavelin@live.fr

Ericf said at 9:33 a.m. on Apr 28, 2009:
Yes, please report these to me when you find them. I've disabled that account and will disable future spamming accounts.

Thanks!

Eric Foster
HP/Tabblo Support Staff

Joaqy said at 9:39 a.m. on Apr 28, 2009:
Thanks, ERic. Much appreciated.

Zippywinds said at 11:49 p.m. on Mar 17, 2009:
Dam i hope not as well Andre

Ericf said at 8:54 a.m. on Mar 18, 2009:
Hopefully if that were to happen I would hear about it before you would...and I haven't heard any such thing.

That being said, I encourage everyone to use Tabblo and recruit new users. Tabblo.com is nothing without it's members and new folks are always welcome, so please get others involved!

Pattymaryclare said at 9:29 a.m. on Apr 28, 2009:
^^^^see above Eric,,,APPARENTLY new folks ARE coming in ...the SPAMMERS!^^^ AND I don't mean like Gretel's character 'Pammie Spammie' - no offence meant Pamela lol PMC

Pattymaryclare said at 10:26 a.m. on Nov 20, 2008:
Hi Den...JUST SENT YOU A TEST USER-TO-USER message! I don't think there's any problem with it ....oh yeah btw , can you 'fix' my heart pls? lol haha luv, PMC.

Andre. said at 8:06 p.m. on Mar 6, 2009:
Oops...

Andre. said at 11:53 p.m. on Mar 17, 2009:
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1721945/

A good example here (???)

Andre. said at 9:35 p.m. on Oct 27, 2008:
You can’t [as far as I know].

Cheers

Eduardo.affonso said at 9:15 p.m. on Oct 17, 2008:
I tried to change the title of my latest tabblo, and couldn't, too. Maybe we should think twice before we finish a tabblo: love doesn't last forever, tabblo titles do...

Pkeener said at 11:04 p.m. on Oct 17, 2008:
I love you forever, edu

21-gramm said at 2:11 a.m. on Oct 18, 2008:
I've same problem in IE7, but not in Mozilla!

Ned said at 12:52 p.m. on Oct 19, 2008:
This is fixed, sorry for the bad code!

Pattymaryclare said at 11:14 a.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
1.2.3.4.and 5. PLEASE GET US ALL A 'SEARCHBAR' back for our friends and family NOT members of tabblo!? I think all the 'supporting' arguments are rather a moot point. I love the tools as they exist now but the fact I can't tell someone about the site and have them just search my user identity has been SORELY MISSED! I think It was addressed down below by 'whodat' ?! as to other ways - not sure. PMC out!

Ericf said at 1:21 p.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
The search bar is a great one...but it's only one! Let's try to format this to make it easier for me.

1 -
2 -
3 -
4 -
5 -

If you can't come up with 5 then 3 would work as well...but put some thought into it.

=)

Pattymaryclare said at 4:41 p.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
1. SEARCH BAR please and thank you and how close are you to implementing one in days, weeks, months......YEARS?!? yikes lol haha

21-gramm said at 5:11 p.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
Eric, I'm very glad to propose some points:

1. To enlarge the spectrum of the possibilities of formatting photographs directly on the site (to increase the scant collection of the means of formatting, especially, it is desirable to obtain the possibility to change color and the thickness of the framework of photo).
2. RSS of my page
3.Tabblo's Mail works badly, [large communications are not reflected completely, but it is only fragmentary]
4. Is possible, the organization Of 'Areopagus Tabblo' from the most authoritative of the users. They can select alternative Tabblo of the Day and Tabblo of the Month. I think, James [SirNicolay] can help in this question
5. To make work of the groups of of more accessible, to carry out some groups by the main page and to change them is regular (daily, monthly)
6. European users always are late, since the date of publication there tabblo is determined not by time zone, but by time into Boston. It can be, this is possible to fix this issue?

regards,
den~

Pkeener said at 6:33 p.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
i commented on you tabblo. do you want me to do it again?

Pkeener said at 6:36 p.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
1. Search engine (that will take care of finding groups and Users and be much easier for friends and guests who are not on Tabblo)

2. Better functionality of mail box.

3. Hide the tool bar when creating. It is way better than the original, but would love to hide it

Whodat54321 said at 7:09 p.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
1. intergrate a search box with one of the 5 major search engines on the page. this isn't a difficult item, but seems to be a licencing issue? Please tell us....

2. would love to be able to add a 'custom' background or field submitted as a .jpg instead of plain colors, like the grass pic...

3. RSS support, or a 'low fi' method of informing of new works posted.

4. an optional way to integrate a freemail service to do notifications and take the load off tabblo's servers.

5. [the following may be controversial] Multiple TOD's. selected by users who volunteer to do a certain number of views of all works submitted, selected by tabblo.com staff, and selected by a random process, as a way to encourage users to look at more tabblos (I'm feeling lucky sort of link).

6. slight rewrite of page code to match time on user system or use a selectable time based around GMT, so it's easier on users all over the world.

7. some other shapes of photos other than square or rectangular.

8. a toggle on/off for tools.

9. a low-fi option for those who have capped bandwith every month, and have option to view it in that format instead of standard one.

10. ways to custom edit your digest mailing, including if one to show 'random' new tabblos if you want.

FINALLY - whew!! open developer.tabblo.com to alpha and beta public testers to see if the new apps will work out in the field.

Eduardo.affonso said at 9:35 p.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
1. Versions of Tabblo in other languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French...). It would make it easier for people from other countries to join it and manage its tools.

2. Although it's a site meant for photography, it could include videos. Many people post links for YouTube, and it would be great to have both (photos & videos) in the same page. One video per page would be enough.

3. Tabblo is, in my opinion, more than a site for photos. It's sort of a visual blog (and sometimes becomes a chat room...). Wish I could manage comments the way I do in my blog (free comments, comments previosly submitted, no comments at all etc).

4. Inbox messages could be sent to our e-mail, just like the comments are.

5. ToD is an interesting tool, but there should be more categories (for newcomers, creative layouts, technical excellence etc). What about "Tabblos of the Day", 3 or 5 of them, showing a wider range of possibilities of use of the site?

Pkeener said at 10:59 p.m. on Oct 16, 2008:
Eric, cool linki on your tabblo, tw

Sirnicolay said at 1:01 a.m. on Oct 17, 2008:
Most of what I REALLY want to suggest have already been raised (search, date of posting, more photo editing options..)

This is not really top 5 but some random ideas which you might look into:

1) Feature a member for a week or a month. There are so MANY good artists here with STUNNING photos. We can have like a group discussion where we make the member have the "hot seat." We can ask about his/her favorite tabblos, unforgettable or remarkable tabblo experiences, who his/her influences are, faves, etc. :)

2) TODs are nice, but usually there are also so many good tabblos which are being overlooked. I dunno how to remedy this. LOL. But maybe, as Den suggested, the members (especially the regulars) can also have a say on the picking of the TOD. :)

I think the concept of "Most Popular Tabblos" is a bit confusing. How can a tabblo with a few visits be "popular"? I initially thought that the tabblos featured here got the most number of hits. It took me a time to realize that this is determined by the "wink" hits. There are many users who don't even know what the "wink" feature is for. I suggest that maybe the "wink" link should be at the bottom of the tabblo page AND also the Make Fave link. Maybe the tabblos' "unique" visits (only one count per user/per guest view) can be the determining factor for the "Most Popular Tabblo."

Maybe a rating system can also be implemented? Or "props" system like the one in xanga.com, I think.

3) Html codes within the tabblo will be great.

4) Music embedded with the tabblo. :) So that each tabblo will be more than just a visual treat. :)

5) I think all members will appreciate promos... or even contests with PRIZES. :)

6) Better text composition format for ALL kinds of browsers. I usually shift from Safari to Firefox because Safari does not edit text well.

7) Maybe some integration with other third-party sites. Maybe facebook, multiply, or myspace? :)

YorkJodi said at 11:21 a.m. on Oct 19, 2008:
I just discovered this... and the question in Tabblo Discuss...
I have to agree with Kelly & James... their ideas are really good...

1. I like the map idea a lot... (similar to my feature request long ago)...

2. A search box to find tabblos with photos containing "San Francisco" or "Utah" for instance... so many people don't put their tabblos into the groups and so it's impossible to find them on your own...

3. more layouts where you can stretch your photo to fill the entire screen without leaving a black 2" border on the right (like this one has)... The only layout I've found that works is the 6 across borderless... and I hate starting from there with each tabblo when it has lots of photos... you about have to then delete them all and add them one at a time from the light box...

4. an instruction page for new comers... I've never found one... other than the tabblo that James made last winter...

5. TOD... I agree with the comments of others... some days I think it is hard to find a really good one... and then there are days where there are 2 or 3 or even 4 that are WONDERFUL... and much better then some of the earlier TODs yet you can only choose 1 that day... Sad!!

Guess what... I changed my e-mail address and NOW I'm getting notifications... FYI... in case anyone else is having trouble with this issue...

Oh and one more thing... that "Most Popular" group on the main page is so not right... there can be a tabblo in it that has only 5 or so views... so all 5 people must have "winked"... and like someone said a lot of people don't even know about the wink... or forget to do it... some people wink at their friends tabblos whether they are good or not... ;)
There needs to be a different system for this... or regulation of it...

Thanks... I love Tabblo!!! It is just so fun...

MrsPinz said at 2:05 p.m. on Oct 21, 2008:
1. Ability to organize your personal address book (contacts). So you can group your users like friends, family, co-workers, etc. and then just set privacy or distribution to those groups.
2. Also allow you to put names with the email addresses (like a regular address book) as well as show the relationship between email address and tabblo user name. Once our contacts register with Tabblo, we only see the user name and sometimes it's not always evident who it is.
3. More flexibility with the backgrounds. Either offer more texture-like backgrounds (like the grass or linen), holiday themes, or give us the ability to use our own jpegs as backgrounds.
4. Why can't you use one of your photos already uploaded in Tabblo as your avatar or group picture? Right now the "browse" feature only allows you to look on your hard drive, not your Tabblo photo library.
5.More font and size options for text. Not just bold and italics, how about underline too? Also more options for the tabblo title -- location, italics, bold, etc.

So there you go!

Ericf said at 3:03 p.m. on Oct 27, 2008:
This is a great collection of ideas...thanks so much for participating.

Ericf said at 11:31 a.m. on Oct 31, 2008:
Once we push new code to production Tabblos will be listed by POST date as opposed to CREATE date! Great Suggestion!

Pattymaryclare said at 7:18 p.m. on Nov 18, 2008:
YeaH I found that out the 'hard' way long ago...Now I have one waiting to be posted for a 'certain date' so can't publish yet...Any idea when the 'pushin' code' is gonna' take place Eric? Thx. pmc p.s. search bar/serch engine as well?

Ned said at 4:47 p.m. on Sep 21, 2008:
Sorry for the inconvenience and the confusion. I won't bore you with the technical details, but we made some changes that were very bad, and it took us way too long to recover from them. The site should be better now.

Terriculture said at 8:55 p.m. on Oct 14, 2008:
My 'feature' this tabblo is not working anymore. I don't understand why it's not working, Please explain.
My recent tabblos from this year have disapeared from the groups I have created or joined. Any explanation would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you.

Ericf said at 8:59 a.m. on Sep 12, 2008:
You could always include http://www.tabblo.com/studio/person/hollygtn/ in your signature.

Hollygtn said at 12:27 a.m. on Sep 13, 2008:
Thanks! I didn't know about that because when I look at that page the URL is this:
http://www.tabblo.com/studio/view/

no user name in it!

Will do.

Memotions said at 3:14 p.m. on Sep 1, 2008:
I've found it easier to drag the photos I want to upload to my desktop. I agree, you have to hunt around too much to find your photos in iPhoto.
Patty

Ericf said at 9:19 a.m. on Sep 3, 2008:
We've got a few Mac users in our group here so even though we're part of HP we still keep all platforms in mind when we roll stuff out. iPhoto is a great tool just like Picasa and the other methods we used to support. The problem was finding the engineering time to write new code every time each one of these pieces of software was updated by their developer, which was often. The tool we're using now works with every platform, is pretty easy to understand and it's robust. If you've got any suggestions on how to improve it I'd be happy to report them.

Lifequest22 said at 8:39 p.m. on Jul 24, 2008:
Dar-thanks for your discovery. It's works great. I was able to adjust the size of the browsing pane on mine. The entire process was quick. Thanks, Tabblo.

Ericf said at 9:01 a.m. on Jul 23, 2008:
I'm not sure if I completely understand what you're asking. Can you please post a link to an example of what you're referring to? If you would like to ask me directly feel free to click any "contact us" link at the bottom of every page.

21-gramm said at 5:35 p.m. on Jul 9, 2008:
hey, Andre! What is the site?

Andre. said at 6:17 p.m. on Jul 9, 2008:
http://www.tabblo.com/

21-gramm said at 6:22 p.m. on Jul 9, 2008:
:D

Hellodear said at 11:08 p.m. on Jul 9, 2008:
Sincerely,
Kam

L810th said at 10:08 a.m. on Nov 27, 2008:
It has taken me a very long time to find this excellent forum for story telling.
I fully endorse those sentiments. Thank you for all your work you do on Tabblo!
Mike.

Ericf said at 3:10 p.m. on Jun 26, 2008:
It would be made by both parties. It's something I'm happy to bring up at our engineering meeting.

We've actually dropped focus from 3rd party integrations and focused on providing a durable and consistent uploader, which seems to work pretty well for most folks.

Thanks for the suggestion!

PaulBarfoot said at 3:13 p.m. on Jun 26, 2008:
Thanks Eric. Have I mentioned how much I love tabblo? The new editing tools, after the initial bugs were worked out, are great but best of all is the community of people (including staff)!

Ericf said at 3:23 p.m. on Jun 26, 2008:
=)

Pattymaryclare said at 2:19 p.m. on Jun 25, 2008:
To coin some song lyrics for fun, Akeke 'it's been asked/said many times, many ways........where's our search box (Tabblo guyz)....merry search box to us!" HA HA LOL (see below in forum questions and answers re: the search bar...GO ALL THE WAY DOWN....but thx for asking again. WE ALL MISS IT REALLY BAD! pmc

Hellodear said at 9:41 p.m. on Jun 26, 2008:
Me too.

Andre. said at 8:22 p.m. on Jul 9, 2008:
I'm curious too:)

AliDar said at 12:32 p.m. on Jun 22, 2008:
On Sun Jun 22 11:05:50 2008, sirnicolay wrote:

Hahaha! Thanks, Mirella and Allan :)

on sirnicolay's tabblo SirNicolay: In Retrospect ( http://www.tabblo.com/studio/stories/view/1497623/ )

I think he's okay Kimberly.

Queenanneslace0724 said at 12:54 p.m. on Jun 22, 2008:
That's good. I feel like I know some of you people now! tks! kim

Saulblum said at 9:35 p.m. on Jun 7, 2008:
Maybe there's some problem with your mail provider, where Tabblo e-mails are suddenly being rejected? (For example, a spam filter could be catching them.) Do you have another e-mail account you could try setting as your Tabblo address and see if that one works?

Marcif said at 12:52 a.m. on Jun 8, 2008:
I had that same problem. I discovered all my Tabblo notifications were going to my spam filter. I think I noted the problem on here, but then it stopped happening all of a sudden. I wish I had an answer for you

YorkJodi said at 12:42 p.m. on Jun 8, 2008:
I have a "Junk" folder... they are not going there... I don't know how to check anything else... but have never had this problem with Hotmail before... not until the end of April... so it was fine for 6 weeks.

People are disappearing from my circle too... and I have to add them again.

I don't have another e-mail address... don't really want one... but... IF that's the only way to fix this... then maybe I'll have to do that. Thanks!!

At least SOMEONE finally replied to my frustrations!!!

Saulblum said at 11:53 p.m. on Jun 1, 2008:
I especially like the new "Advanced" tab! Thanks, Tabblo developers, for listening to your users' feedback and for improving the interface also.

ConnieL said at 9:30 a.m. on May 28, 2008:
I, too, would like to see the search box again. :)

Pattymaryclare said at 12:45 a.m. on Jun 20, 2008:
YES SEARCH BOX VERY BADLY MISSED! NOONE IS ANSWERING why tabblo took it out? we can't search for users, groups or anything like before. One day on he groups search , IT ONLY LET YOU SEE PAGE ONE!!! OF each letter.. CAN WE HAVE AN ANSWER PLS ABOUT REMOVAL OF SEARCH? thx!

Hellodear said at 11:10 p.m. on Jul 9, 2008:
I want the search box back.... Please...

Saulblum said at 1:24 a.m. on May 26, 2008:
Fear not, *many* people on Tabblo have expressed the same gripes, and it looks like the old controls are coming back this week!

Spilly0901 said at 10:04 a.m. on May 14, 2008:
I like the toolbar concept, but color choices need to come back! Personally, I like being able to pick my background colors, as I'm sure may others do to! Hopefully, this is only temporary with the new hardware changes.

Saulblum said at 10:37 a.m. on May 14, 2008:
Click on the STYLE tab at the bottom and then click on "Customize a style", to choose fonts and colors.

Spilly0901 said at 10:33 p.m. on May 14, 2008:
Just figured that out. Thanks Saul!

Debdog said at 12:38 a.m. on May 16, 2008:
I found and like he custom colors, with the slider, AND the fact you can cange the font and size of your titles...THE ONE THING i would add..is just bring back the fine grid. It makes it easier to put text in and make your pics fit nicely...i ALWAYS used fine grid.

Debdog said at 12:39 a.m. on May 16, 2008:
oops sorry for the typos...i was struggling with a tabblo

Ericf said at 9:23 a.m. on May 9, 2008:
We're working on restoring the search functionality soon. There are a few issues to be resolved with the search functionality in relation to the hardware upgrades we recently completed. We're working on it!

Pattymaryclare said at 12:49 a.m. on Jun 20, 2008:
WHEN IS 'SOON'..........LOL? THANK YOU 1.5 MONTHS LATER...PMC

OTMBOOKSTORE said at 8:28 p.m. on May 3, 2008:
Emmabro,

I find to get a long photo into a Tabblo is to create the size proportional to the image you want to create and at a high resolution. I will share a poster I made with a large image.

To create one photo in 3 different areas requires the same technique, a simple way to accoomplish the separate images is to upload the same photo with different names.

Goox luck...Patrick, OTM BOOKS

Emmabro said at 5:56 p.m. on May 7, 2008:
Patrick thanks for the help ...I'll give it a go !!!
still sounds a bit above my intelligence :-)
oh well nothing ventured nothing gained hee hee
XxEm

Ericf said at 3:44 p.m. on Apr 21, 2008:
We have a "full" page format with will render a photo as full bleed onto the page. I recommend using the highest resolution image file as possible.

Kevinb5 said at 4:28 p.m. on Apr 21, 2008:
I will certainly make it full resolution, but I want to make it the same dimensions as the page in the book. If I make it a different dimension than the page (say, 8x10 vs. 7x9), I'm afraid it will crop some side off. Do I just make my image the same dimension as the book itself?

Ericf said at 10:41 a.m. on Apr 23, 2008:
I would make them 7x9 and use the full bleed formatting on each page that you want full coverage. You can always view the PDF of the book to get a rough idea of the borders.

Ericf said at 12:32 p.m. on Apr 16, 2008:
I'm looking into this now. Thanks for the information.

JeroldsSis said at 12:37 p.m. on Apr 16, 2008:
Thanks! (Wow. Such a quick, timely response. Wish my husband responded to my requests like that. LOL)

MichelleMc said at 7:32 p.m. on May 30, 2008:
lol Eric is great! He always answers any questions about orders or what not in the fastest time possible...Great customer service! Thanks!

Burmashave said at 5:32 p.m. on Apr 17, 2008:
Oh well, I'll just go ahead and publish as is, although the finished product is not at all what I want.

It's too bad. I like the concept of Tabblo; however, it just doesn't work for me in practice, and I *have* tried to make it work. I may do my next "tableaux" by hand (HTML tables, mapped images, etc.) and publish it myself. I think that says something, given the time and effort it takes to make a similar set of arranged images with links to originals.

Burmashave said at 10:35 a.m. on Apr 21, 2008:
Hey, thanks for all the replies! I'll make sure to recommend Tabblo to all my friends.

Ericf said at 2:20 p.m. on Apr 8, 2008:
The server switch has been in the works for some time and has nothing to do with the Flickr services we're offering. Thanks for checking out some of our new offerings!

Hellodear said at 1:50 a.m. on Apr 4, 2008:
Sorry for not mentioning, i want to order softbook or a bigbook of 41 pages.

Ericf said at 2:22 p.m. on Apr 8, 2008:
While we would love to be able to ship outside the United States we cannot currently do so. We're working on implementing some form of international shipping and we should be opening up to new, smaller markets in the coming year. We know that people outside the U.S. want to purchase tabblo products and we're doing what we can to accommodate them.

Mdr said at 1:11 p.m. on Apr 16, 2008:
I was able to use the services of www.shopusa.com to ship to Iceland. Maybe they do India too.

:)
MD

Ned said at 11:37 a.m. on Apr 3, 2008:
We don't feel good about the fact that we were counting robot visits as views. We do feel good about fixing the problem. Now view counts are more accurate and worthwhile.

Pattymaryclare said at 12:58 a.m. on Jun 20, 2008:
uh er exactly WHAT ARE 'robot visits' Ned? I heard all about it but who generated them and how did it happen?????? I've also discovered that there are 'alter-ego' tabblo identities with ficticious names/profiles etc. I kinda' know how they can get in from diff. email accts/browsers etc....but is this ALLOWED ON Tabblo? Is thee a monitoring system in place to find them, and if found, what is your policy re: allowing 'them' to stay or removing them? Thank you Ned for YOUR response only!

Ned said at 10:48 a.m. on Jun 20, 2008:
Search engines visit web pages to see what they contain, so they can add them to their indexes. Other programs also traverse the web, reading pages for various other purposes. All of these programs are known as spiders or robots, to distinguish them from people looking at pages in their browsers.

We used to count those robot visits as views, which resulted in artificially high view counts. Some time in March, we fixed that problem on the site, and now only actual people are counted as views. Search engines can visit the page all they like, and it won't add to the view count.

As to alias identities, that is a trickier issue. We encourage people to be creative, and that can sometimes involve alter egos. We try to steer the community with a light hand, and this does sometimes involve identifying and limiting excessive behavior.

Pattymaryclare said at 12:11 p.m. on Jun 20, 2008:
Thx Ned.I had a very good idea as to how 'robot views' happened; glad you curtailed it but last tab I made had HUGE 3# of guest views. Can Tabblo exec view 'community situational tabs' as 'guests'? Also, wish to know how you actually accomplish limiting excessive behaviour, in which ways? Lastly, THIS SITE WAS TOUTED AT ONE TIME AS "A PLACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS' (can't find slogan anymore on site. Do you think the vast majority of community considers FAKE IDENTIES, FAKE 'LIFTED' PHOTOS (only occasionally ) MOSTLY CARTOONING OR CARTOON SATIRICAL CHARACTERS as 'photography' and that they have validity in this venue? Surely there are other places for lampooning and cartoon characters made with 'fake' photos in other sites or blogs...Your response greatly appreciated. pmc

Ericf said at 1:57 p.m. on Jun 20, 2008:
For the most part we've got a pretty good community here at Tabblo and more rigid rules aren't required.. Of course there are those that like mischief, but we don't have restrictions on who can create accounts.

Pattymaryclare said at 4:43 p.m. on Jun 20, 2008:
Thank you Mr. Foster although Ned had already made clear the 'light hand' on tabblo account/user identity issues which has been MORE than evident for me. However, my question as to REAL story/photography community vx. cartoon caricature and 'borrowed face' satirical 'columns' such as one might have viewed in 'National Lampoon' or 'Mad Magazine, has been left UNANSWERED... I had wished for a reply on this matter from Ned as stated at beginning of post. Thank you.

Pattymaryclare said at 5:02 p.m. on Jun 20, 2008:
p.s. IT IS AND WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE 'FRACTAL' tabs and groups WERE ASKED BY EXECUTIVE TO REFRAIN FROM POSTING.....AS THEY WERE NOT 'REAL' PHOTOS BUT SOFTWARD GENERATED..... IS THAT A 'LIGHT HAND' AS WELL....rhetorical question but goes to 'point'! ty

Dunster said at 10:41 a.m. on Mar 12, 2008:
We put out some new code last week. One of the changes was an improved set of searchbot filters. There were some searchbots that we weren't screening right beforehand; some of those views were actually by robots, not human beings.

We've excluded bots before, but there are always new ones being added. In this case we screened out a couple particularly active ones.

The number of humans coming to the site is the same, but the number of views is now more accurate. The difference is particularly evident in older, more heavily linked tabblos. The bots loved them.

LatentE said at 5:01 p.m. on Mar 12, 2008:
It's not just in older tabblos. It was in the recent ones that I noticed how the views implied an inner "club" quality, with almost no "guests." I used older and more heavily viewed tabblos to better quantify any changes. But if that's the reality then that's the reality. Thanks for the reply.

Dunster said at 3:08 p.m. on Mar 10, 2008:
Most of the questions are covered in the FAQ and the Terms of Service at the bottom of the page.

In general, you get to control what people can do with your content. You can control who sees your photos and tabblos, and you can control if people have permission to download or purchase your photos or tabblos.

Dunster said at 1:24 p.m. on Mar 10, 2008:
Drop a note to our help group, and they'll track it down for you. If you hit the "contact us" link on the page and put the request there, they'll reply.

JeroldsSis said at 1:51 p.m. on Mar 10, 2008:
Thanks! I did it and got an answer. ;)

Dunster said at 12:08 a.m. on Feb 6, 2008:
I'd help you if I could, but we just can't crank out books that quickly. There are a couple of factors: the pages have to "dry" before they can be bound, and the binding has to "cure." The pages are printed on an Indigo press and our schedule on that press is pretty tight, which is another complicating factor.

The site language says "6 business days" to print a book. We often do it faster than that, but 3 business days is, unfortunately, faster than we can pull off at this point. I'm sorry about that.

JeroldsSis said at 7:20 p.m. on Jan 27, 2008:
There's a little trashcan that is next to each comment that is left. Click on the trash can and you can delete it.

JeffS said at 6:19 p.m. on Jan 14, 2008:
Yes, that sounds cool and the price looks good. I was a little confused by "soft book". I was originally thinking it was padded or something. But I think you mean paperback, as opposed to hardcover.

Dunster said at 11:02 a.m. on Jan 15, 2008:
Yes, paperback is a good word, too.

MichelleMc said at 7:36 p.m. on May 30, 2008:
I absolutely love the soft cover books! I have ordered many for all my family who attended our wedding recently from all over the country. Everyone loved them and thought they were beautiful! The hard cover books are exceptional as well, today my first one arrived and I love it! thanks tabblo!!!

Cruising said at 7:45 p.m. on Jan 3, 2008:
When searching, you can use Google.

Type:

pasta site:tabblo.com/studio/group/

where "pasta" is replaced by what you are looking for. Google does a pretty decent job on this.

Ericf said at 3:26 p.m. on Jan 4, 2008:
Great Answer!

Ericf said at 3:30 p.m. on Jan 4, 2008:
You can also use the built in search functionality. You'll notice that you can specify what you're searching for by unchecking the search options.

To search groups simply uncheck every option BUT Groups.

Dunster said at 6:23 p.m. on Dec 17, 2007:
Managing an online community is always a challenge - there are conflicts, just like any other group.

We listen when people use the "contact us" link, or mark tabblos as "may offend." Generally a private note is enough to calm things down. Sometimes (rarely) we have to do more drastic things like take down tabblos or delete accounts. Whatever actions we take are framed by the terms of service and the privacy policy.

Please feel free to let us know about specific tabblos you are concerned with. I'd prefer you used a private method, like the contact us page.

Terriculture said at 6:32 p.m. on Dec 17, 2007:
Thankyou for your quick response, I wasn't sure what to do.

Andre. said at 8:03 a.m. on Dec 21, 2007:
What's "nasty remarks" ?

Ericf said at 12:12 p.m. on Dec 13, 2007:
Interesting. I'm looking into this now.

Cruising said at 11:04 a.m. on Dec 9, 2007:
On the bottom of these pages, there is a "contact us" link which I have received response from. You can also try emailing help@tabblo.com - that was the old way :)

Ericf said at 9:10 a.m. on Dec 10, 2007:
Thanks Cruising! Either way will work fine. Jbuz, that's definitely something I can fix for you so drop me a note if you're able. If not let me know and we'll figure something else out.

ericf

Floridamolle said at 8:06 a.m. on Nov 28, 2007:
OK....Today it works

Ericf said at 9:13 a.m. on Dec 10, 2007:
Hello Amy,

When you're viewing your messages you should see a header in the middle of the pane titled:

"Actions: Reply Save Mark as new Delete"

Select message and click the "Delete" button.

ericf

Ericf said at 9:15 a.m. on Dec 10, 2007:
Just send me a private message from within Tabblo and I will be able to delete your account for you. Keep in mind that when you delete your account it is unrecoverable.

ericf

4sale said at 3:35 p.m. on Sep 13, 2007:
Never mind, I think I figured it out. But the captions keep disappearing on me when I change layouts - maybe it's just a bug in my browser? If I change the layouts and few times then they come back!

Dunster said at 11:59 a.m. on Sep 14, 2007:
We do have some refresh issues with captions when you change styles. Until we get them straightened out, it's a good idea to refresh your browser once you've settled on a style to make sure it looks the way you intended.

Mestrada said at 8:13 a.m. on Sep 8, 2007:
actually issue is being discussed in the 'issues' forum. I have the exact same problem. Iphoto 7.02 does not show anything in the export window. Just the three options "File", "Web" and "Quicktime".

BTW, I much prefer the 'regular' and 'comoditized' discussion forums where one can search, etc...

JeroldsSis said at 3:05 a.m. on Sep 5, 2007:
You can answer by commenting on your own blog. Anyone who has commented on your blog will get your answer as well or you can contact the person directly by using Tabblo mail. Good luck and have fun!

JeroldsSis said at 3:06 a.m. on Sep 5, 2007:
I'm sorry, not 'blog' but on your tabblo. My mind goes all over the place sometimes! lol

Dtrozzi said at 9:38 p.m. on Sep 9, 2007:
thank you!

Ericf said at 3:14 p.m. on Aug 31, 2007:
Our printing process tries to minimize loss and can vary up to 1/8th of an inch. I've seen double page layout and most look really nice.

If you've got a nice wide shot I would recommend you use it for the cover, which can be one large panoramic shot. It's looks fantastic!

Adilj said at 3:18 p.m. on Aug 31, 2007:
Thanks for the quick reply. I will keep a 1/8 inch overlap and see how it comes out.

Thanks.

DVP said at 1:43 p.m. on Sep 3, 2007:
I've used a double page spread and in the 4 books I printed it lined up acceptably 3 out of 4 times. The binding edge on the books were larger than I expected and the tabblo process did add some margin for safety's sake. (You can see the white space if you look at the binding on the vertical edge)

Having print experience I left close to 1/4 inch on MOST of my photos. The ones that I didn't leave that margin on, closer to the center of the book, were the ones that suffered most. As far as I can tell the binding edge is not incrementally adjusted to provide for a deep book.

Keep in mind that 1/8" variation on a 4x4 inch book is proportionally larger than in a big book.

Adilj said at 8:52 a.m. on Sep 4, 2007:
I am not sure I understand...I am making a big book that is going to have close to 80 pages. There are a few double page spreads in there.
I have split the image into two keeping a 1/8th inc overlap in the middle. In the photo viewer it lines up nicely.

Are you saying I should have a 1/4 in overlap?

I have ordered a big book before (38 pages) and the binding seems to eat up roughly 1/8th of an inch too (though it is hard to tell).

Thanks.

Adilj said at 9:27 a.m. on Sep 4, 2007:
I think adding a double page spread feature to the book editor would nicely solve all this calculation issues...Considering that the cover page already allows for such a spread would'nt it be easy to add a control to switch two facing pages into single page or double page "mode"?
I will post this to the feature request forum.

Zippywinds said at 8:14 p.m. on Aug 24, 2007:
oh yeah i've noticed that too, maybe the TOD is on holiday LOL like the NPR's Car Talk guys Click and Clack give the puzzler a holiday haha ,

Dunster said at 9:01 p.m. on Aug 24, 2007:
Guilty as charged. Vacations and a busy schedule are the excuses I'll cite.

I'll make sure we're better about it going forward.

Thanks for keeping us honest.

DVP said at 1:01 p.m. on Aug 26, 2007:
Ha, I just came here to comment on tabblo of the week. :)

Marcif said at 9:01 p.m. on Aug 21, 2007:
I think the logo is fairly standard for all companies that provide this service. I actually like it because I don't have to remember where I ordered the particular book from. Once you get over the shock, it might be ok.

Ned said at 10:43 p.m. on Aug 21, 2007:
We certainly didn't mean for the logo on the last page to feel like a banner ad. We were thinking of it more like an imprint.

JeroldsSis said at 3:08 a.m. on Sep 5, 2007:
I've had books made with out a logo on it. I think it takes away from the book itself. JMO. Still love Tabblo, though!

Cruising said at 6:28 p.m. on Aug 20, 2007:
Discontinuing the print service is a pretty big change. I am sad about that! But things do change ... I can understand.

I'd be curious if this site is part of the long term strategy? Any thoughts from Tabblo????

Dunster said at 2:42 p.m. on Aug 21, 2007:
We did discontinue the silver-halide print product. That means the regular 4x6s prints aren't available for purchase.

The other print products (books, posters, postcards) are still available - they are available for purchase.

We dropped the silver-halide prints because they didn't have a lot of users and they weren't cheap. We're considering how to bring them back in the long run. We're really expanding our partnership list, so I think that one of them will help bring it back.

Govardha said at 3:21 p.m. on Aug 21, 2007:
I just wanted a regular 8x10 print, nothing about silver-halide prints. My order was still not processed and is still stuck in pending state.

Dunster said at 4:10 p.m. on Aug 21, 2007:
I'm sorry, I wasn't clear. The entire "prints" product was printed using a silver halide process. That's the 4x6, the 8x10, etc.

The posters, postcards, books are all printed on inkjet printers of various types. Those products are still available. (Including, I might add, a 8.5x11 poster that is pretty close in size to a 8x10).

Dunster said at 3:02 p.m. on Aug 14, 2007:
We've had some growing pains. The seam we burst this week was the email server. That meant we failed to send a number of email. We patched the server together, and a long-term solution will be in place in a few days.

Sorry for the difficulty.

Floridamolle said at 8:21 p.m. on Aug 14, 2007:
Thank you for your rapid answer, it's OK, just wanted too be sure it was not me or my mail that was out of order.

Spilly0901 said at 2:28 p.m. on Aug 13, 2007:
There isn't a limit to how many are used, but the more pic's there are, the slower and harder, is seems to get the tabblo how you want it to be. Hope that helps.

DonDeborahBrown said at 2:30 p.m. on Aug 13, 2007:
Thanks .... They need to work on there Help Center?

Dunster said at 4:52 p.m. on Aug 6, 2007:
Unfortunately we don't have international shipping at this time. The challenge has been customs; the paperwork necessary to ship the books has been difficult to produce reliably. And when we make a mistake, the repercussions are really bad.

We'll bring international shipping back at some point in the future.

Mdr said at 5:48 p.m. on Aug 6, 2007:
Though I find it difficult to understand that this poses a problem (there being other websites that ship outside the US and thus must have solved the problem) I do know that customs have a tendency to be a royal pain in the...

You must understand how this affects the usage of your product by your international audience. For me personally this means that I must impose on friends and family in the States acting as postmen on your behalf. Which means that there will be much less purchases. So I am assuming that you are working on this and am counting on being able to send my christmas gifts directly.

In the light of this it might be a good idea to remove the disclaimer for international shipping in the 'Shipping' page of the checkout process.

Still a bit irked,
:S
MD

Mdr said at 8:03 p.m. on Mar 16, 2008:
Hi!

I'm returning to make a new Tabblo and book and I still find that you are not shipping outside the US. This leaves me no choice but to look elsewhere and I'm quite saddened. I've been a Tabblo user from the beginning and I am very keen on doing business with you guys.

Before I ride off to the sunset, is there any chance you'll have an overseas shipping option soon? How about DHL/other express mail service? That would leave me handling the nasty customs?

:)
MD

Dunster said at 5:12 p.m. on Mar 18, 2008:
Unfortunately, we're still not shipping internationally. We've been working on it quite a bit - more than one person is spending most of their time getting it going. I'm hopeful we'll have some countries on the shipping list later this year. We're not ready yet to talk about which countries in which days.

Floridamolle said at 4:36 p.m. on Aug 1, 2007:
I have noticed one thing. In most layouts (not 6 col). If you place the picture just a pixel to far right, it will still be there in the edit mode, but when you finish it will be reduced to a little tiny dot. I always place the pic a little to the left and pull it out the last few pixels, so I know when it reach the right limit. Short, if you place the pic to far right you want see it in edit, but it will be tiny in finished mode. if you pull the pic bigger it will stop at the right limit and can't go to far. I don't know if this is your problem but thought it would be good to know

Ned said at 4:37 p.m. on Aug 1, 2007:
Paul so sorry to hear you are having such difficulties. What browser/os are you using? Can you give us the tabblo id that doesn't look right? Maybe there is something simple going on here...

PaulBarfoot said at 9:54 a.m. on Aug 2, 2007:
I'm using IE 6.0.something
I deleted the tabblo I started because it just wouldn't cooperate. Perhaps I'll reload the images and try again.

DVP said at 11:35 a.m. on Aug 2, 2007:
This has happened to me too. Using the newest Firefox.

PaulBarfoot said at 11:59 a.m. on Aug 2, 2007:
Finally! I reloaded all the images and had another go at it. The final result is "Ben Shahn's 'Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti' mural"

Dunster said at 11:46 a.m. on Jul 26, 2007:
Question #1 is a new one to me. I'll look into it. Out of curiousity: How good is your internet connection? Is it super solid, or sometimes drops, kind of slow, etc.?

Question #2 is noted - it roots to calico622's question right below.

Floridamolle said at 12:11 p.m. on Jul 26, 2007:
My internet connection is super solid, never drops, It's a 6 megabit DSL. It looks like everything is doing just fine and my tabblo pop up in my own new ones, but not in tabblos new ones, and when I don't get any visits I usually checks, and find that it's tagged as not finished. Does not happen all the time, but maybe every fourth or so.

Dunster said at 3:24 p.m. on Jul 26, 2007:
That's a good clue.

Dunster said at 10:51 a.m. on Jul 24, 2007:
We are inconsistent about when we use names and when we use usernames. I'll take a look at making that more uniform.

Calico622 said at 5:06 a.m. on Aug 16, 2007:
Hi, any progress on this? I just tried sending an "invite" to myself and it still says its from my username. I dont want to be a pest about this, but I dont want people deleting my invites thinking its spam. Thanks

Dunster said at 11:02 a.m. on Jun 29, 2007:
We have done some EXIF work. For instance, if you upload a photo, we now honor the rotation indicated in the EXIF data. In the photo detail pages we show when the photo was actually taken, too.

Was there more EXIF stuff that you were looking for?

Cruising said at 3:14 p.m. on Jun 29, 2007:
I'd like to see 2 options.

One: An option to turn "exif captions" on ... under each photo - the caption contains the aperture, shutter speed, iso, wb and focal length...

Two: Show exif data when viewing the "detail" photo (clicking on a photo in a Tabblo).

I really like both of these options.

Would be nice if I could set which EXIF data to show in my account settings.

DVP said at 11:01 a.m. on Jul 17, 2007:
"Ditto" what Bob said. :)

Woimovie said at 7:00 a.m. on Jul 22, 2007:
good idea

Floridamolle said at 7:05 p.m. on Jun 26, 2007:
It just vanished a month ago, the 6 col layout... HHmmmmmm I have wondered why too.

Cruising said at 8:27 p.m. on Jun 26, 2007:
My "guess" is that it didn't fit with the Print 2.0 future. The wide layout was a fluke that they let through and they finally took it away ... probably made maintenance and future stuff better.

Ned said at 7:05 a.m. on Jun 27, 2007:
I guess I underestimated the popularity of that layout. It will be back soon...

Mdr said at 10:55 a.m. on Jun 28, 2007:
Looking forward to it :) Thanks!

DVP said at 5:40 p.m. on Jun 28, 2007:
Yay for getting this back! Thanks.

Mdr said at 1:15 p.m. on Aug 9, 2008:
Hi :) Any news on this? Still v. interested in a wider Tabblo.

:)
MD

Ned said at 7:34 a.m. on Jun 26, 2007:
We don't make it clear, but you can also use plain Tabblo usernames in the To: field.

PaulBarfoot said at 8:36 a.m. on Jun 26, 2007:
Thanks Ned

AliDar said at 1:20 a.m. on Jun 20, 2007:
The title didn't post. It was: What falls into the 'Flag this tabblo as "may offend"' catagory?

Ned said at 7:27 a.m. on Jun 20, 2007:
There are no hard and fast guidelines for what "may offend". If you see a tabblo, and think it will turn people away from the site, for whatever reason, you should click the link.

That will bring the tabblo to our attention, and we will decide how to handle the situation. Often, we do nothing: you'd be surprised how many pictures of cats and babies get flagged as "may offend", probably as a joke!

Thanks for your vigilance!

AliDar said at 2:18 p.m. on Jun 20, 2007:
Yes, I can understand that it would be very difficult to set guideline for such, and with such a diverse community there would be many reasons why someone might click the 'may offend’ button; making a joke, or childish vindictiveness being a couple of the reasons why, and I'm sorry to hear that that happens so frequently.
I guess I was sort of hoping that by posting a topic here that I could avoid having to click on the ‘may offend’ button myself. I hate feeling like a whistle blower, but I do like the ‘feel’ of Tabblo’s community the way it is now. I wouldn’t want to see it change into an adults only, ‘meet and greet and share sexy pictures of myself’ kind of place, … so I clicked on the ‘may offend button, even though I didn’t much like the feeling I got from doing it.

Thanks Ned, for responding to this so quickly.

Dunster said at 10:34 a.m. on Jun 18, 2007:
Unfortunately, we haven't built that feature - we only have the single downloads.

Dunster said at 2:21 p.m. on Jun 11, 2007:
On the tabblos in the group there is a little star icon. Click that star to feature the tabblo.

PaulBarfoot said at 2:26 p.m. on Jun 11, 2007:
Wow! That was easy. Thanks Dunster.

Ned said at 11:07 a.m. on Jun 9, 2007:
Go to your My Photos page, then click into a photo. There you will have download links for various sizes, including Original.

JeroldsSis said at 2:21 p.m. on Jun 11, 2007:
Hey Ned, just because I was completely unaware that this could be done, I went to my picture page to try it. When I click on a photo, the photo comes up but there's no download link anywhere. Am I just missing it somewhere?

Ned said at 3:37 p.m. on Jun 11, 2007:
There was a bug: if you disallowed others to download your photos, then you were also prevented! It's fixed now..

JeroldsSis said at 4:49 p.m. on Jun 11, 2007:
Cool! Thanks Ned!

Dunster said at 3:01 p.m. on Jun 1, 2007:
There was a bunch of interesting press about HP and Tabblo related to the Print 2.0 campaign.

It's always a trick balancing resources between creating "new" things and supporting the existing ones. Hopefully we'll navigate the narrow path, but I can't rule out the occasional mistake. Let us know how we're doing.

DVP said at 4:02 p.m. on May 27, 2007:
Another note: This post ate it's own title.

Zero42 said at 1:17 p.m. on May 28, 2007:
i've kept this in mind as i made my last several tabs and i haven't seen any image quality problems on my end.

Cruising said at 1:48 p.m. on May 28, 2007:
I just started "noticing" how my images are created. I noticed on a slow machine that they are being built "progressive". I don't recall seeing that before. I don't save my JPG "progressive".

Until it totally draws clean, the pictures do look less quality.

Dunster said at 11:17 a.m. on May 29, 2007:
There haven't been any changes on the back-end image stuff. We do sometimes (infrequently) have errors in image generation. Point me to it if it's persistent or at all frequent.

Side note: if you go to View - Your Photos you can download your photo originals. Other than that, we always re-render it before we display it in the browser.

Dunster said at 11:26 a.m. on May 11, 2007:
There are historical reasons why this is true, but they weren't intentional. It just happened that way. We dont' require names during registration, so only some people have them set up, which is part of the issue. One of the things on my list is to go back through and clean it up some to make it more consistent.

Zero42 said at 12:11 p.m. on May 11, 2007:
Cool. I hear ya on that. Do you have that list posted anywhere? I have little ideas all the time, but I kind of feel bad about bothering you so much. It seems you guys are as busy as all get out.

Dunster said at 11:01 a.m. on May 14, 2007:
Don't worry about bothering us - it's good and helpful stuff. The list isn't public; it's our internal project/bug/feature tracking system.

Mattdey said at 2:53 p.m. on May 18, 2007:
I have found the username a bit confusing as well. The place where it bothers me the most is sending out invites. I usually can recognize people by their email address but once they sign up just their username shows up in my address book then I have trouble figuring out who is who because some people pick cryptic usernames.

Ned said at 9:19 a.m. on May 10, 2007:
We are aware of the email issue, and it will be fixed today. The delivery time for posters should be unchanged. We're working hard to minimize the disruptions caused by our assimilation into the Borg, I mean, our joining HP!

Cruising said at 9:25 a.m. on May 10, 2007:
LOL - Thanks for the quick reply. I'd hate to see anything happen to this service.

I would love to hear more about HPs vision for you guys long term. I'm intrigued about the potential for Tabblo to be used to bridge the web (2.0) with traditional offline print.

I'd be curious how this might all come together (Tabblo Printing Appliance???) :)

Thanks again - I look forward to the Poster!

Dunster said at 11:13 a.m. on Apr 30, 2007:
Definitely drop us a line at help@tabblo.com. That's a good place for the private conversations.

Zero42 said at 12:39 p.m. on Apr 30, 2007:
Are you wanting me to copy and send this (as is) to that address so someone else gets it (maybe that address is better suited for this specific problem?), or are you wanting me to send 'more' information to that address because you're not sure what I'm referring to?

Ned said at 4:08 p.m. on Apr 24, 2007:
Winks are just a way to say that you like a tabblo. They help decide things like the popular and featured lists. They are not visible, in that you can't see how many winks you've gotten, but you can see their effect when your tabblo ends up in the popular list.

Thebeautifullife said at 4:54 p.m. on Apr 24, 2007:
Okay..thanks a lot, Ned. Got it finally! :)

Purpletiger said at 7:39 a.m. on May 9, 2007:
So maybe it's just me, but it seems that if people don't really know what the winks are for or what they do, then it doesn't really warrant winks being used as the determining factor in what makes tabblos most popular.

Dunster said at 2:56 p.m. on Apr 23, 2007:
We do tweak the formula every so often. I've noticed that there are fewer tabblos up there, but it wasn't intentional. We'll tweak something back.

Thebeautifullife said at 9:37 p.m. on Apr 18, 2007:
Zero42, what do you mean? When someone comments on your Tabblo, you can hit on their "id" and reply to them OR just reply to them (direct it to them in your reply) by using the comments box yourself. I usually do both. (copy and paste--copy what I wrote, paste them an email on their page..where it says: leave me a messaGE).

So...just so I understand you, can you verify if that is what you mean?

Thanks!

Zero42 said at 1:17 p.m. on Apr 19, 2007:
I like the ability to reply to all, but it's a shot in the dark if you don't know who, out of those that commented, has signed up to receive more comments. Say I visit one of your Tabblo's and I leave a comment, but in it I don't ask a question and I don't expect you to reply to me specifically, so I don't check the option for "Email me when others leave a comment on this tabblo." Later, you read your comments and reply to what I said somehow specifying in your one comment that a certain section of it is intended for me to read, but of course I'll never know unless you also took the time to click my id, click 'Send a message to', and then retype it there, or copy paste whatever applicable part. If we had the ability to reply to individual comments these extra steps wouldn't have to be taken, there wouldn't be a chance that your intended communication wouldn't be received, and it would generally promote communication.

Dunster said at 4:31 p.m. on Apr 19, 2007:
There are a few competing interests. As a website, we like it when our members connect and communicate. It helps us build a strong community.

At the same time, it's important to let people control what appears in their inbox. If they get email that they don't think is relevant, or even worse, can't stop, then they become frustrated and quit the site altogether.

We've set it up such that if a member comments, the default is that the person is signed up for all future communication on the tabblo. But the member can choose to change that default. The member can also change the setting for individual tabblos.

Then there is the user-to-user feature, which is of course quite different. It's the way for you to reach out to someone.

I tend to think of commenting as a "pull" communication. If I want it, I can "pull" the information off the site. User-to-user is more of a "push" where one user "pushes" to the second.

Maybe we can find a way to selectively push comments in special cases. When we did, we'd have to be very careful. We wouldn't want people to stop commenting because it unleashes a torrent of unwanted (to them) email.

Zero42 said at 4:54 p.m. on Apr 19, 2007:
a reply to an individual comment could be sent to the message center (maybe a new folder in the list).

Zero42 said at 7:10 p.m. on Apr 29, 2007:
in place of or in addition to the current option of having every comment made by anyone pushed to my email system, how about: "Email me when the author leaves a comment on this tabblo."? ..or simply an option that all replies made by authors to tabblo's that i've commented on be sent to my message center? let me know if i'm beating a dead horse. if i'm the only one not wanting so much email, i'll shut up about it.

Zero42 said at 3:12 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
if you go to your photo section and 'share' an image it will create a tabble and the default title is 'my great photo'

Thebeautifullife said at 3:13 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
Ah-ha! Thanks!

But, if you "share" an image with someone it makes a tabblo??? How odd!! Why do they make it do that???

Dunster said at 3:21 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
Zero is right on.

Also, you can go to your account page (http://www.tabblo.com/studio/account/) and configure an email source. Then you can email photos in to Tabblo. They get immediately published. The subject line of the email will be the tabblo title.

That's often what Antonio does. While he's traveling he'll take a picture with his cellphone and send it in.

Dunster said at 3:22 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
They "why" is us experimenting with lightweight and easy ways to publish tabblos. This feature is still a work-in-progress, so there hasn't been any publicity about it yet.

Thebeautifullife said at 3:43 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
Guys, I never tried that...and thought "share" was "send to an email address" type of share.

I went to MY PHOTOS and hit SHARE (just to experiment) and it did indeed make a MY GREAT PHOTO tabblo.

Cool. Thanks for telling me.

Zero42 said at 3:51 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
Dunster, i just logged out and attempted to create a zero42mobile account that i could use just for sharing mobile phone pics. the cancel button works fine, but the 'ok' button doesn't do anything. i don't know if this is related to my java issue. i'm certain i'm entering everything correctly; tried it a few times. any tips?

i like the idea of being able to upload on the fly. my phone lets me send many images at a time. will this upload procedure take multiple images at once and put them in one tabblo, or will i need to upload one at a time?

Thebeautifullife said at 4:13 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
Zero42: NOT SURE what Tabblo has it set up to do...but as a user, every time I sent multiple pics, it uploaded each one into a NEW tabblo...not together :(

Dunster said at 3:24 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
Glad you like it. We're hoping the new upload will be easier, particularly for new, first-time members.

Thebeautifullife said at 3:40 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
They will like it. I like the KISS theory and that is simple!

Spilly0901 said at 11:36 p.m. on Apr 24, 2007:
Used the new uploader yesterday, and like it alot. Now you can "see" how much is done, instead of watching the spinning wheel, wondering how much longer..... great update!

Dunster said at 3:29 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
Well, we've had a whiteboard at Tabblo with some long-term goals. HP had their own whiteboard. We've been spending the last (first!) couple of weeks marrying those together. It's still very much a work in progress. There's not too much that I can share; perhaps Antonio will have some ideas that he can make public.

I won't leave you empty-handed, though. The New York Times story from last week is very, very good. It's thin on the details, but it gives an excellent high-level view of HP's strategy for print and Tabblo: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/technology/09print.html

Cruising said at 9:00 a.m. on May 10, 2007:
I had an email to Help@tabblo.com bounce on me.

I also just ordered a new Tabblo Print. I am curious if the move to HP is going to delay this, or if this will be processes as quickly as you normally do these.

Has anyone else recently (May) ordered a Tabblo and had it shipped?

Thanks for any help.

p.s. (my guess is that the team might not be getting notifications of these posts if their server is bouncing emails - part of the move to HP)...

Dunster said at 12:01 p.m. on May 11, 2007:
Our shipping appears to be going fine. We had a delay with a few books last week, but I think we're back at speed.

AdSR said at 8:10 p.m. on May 26, 2007:
I saw the new "Tabblo by HP" logo today. It made me feel uneasy there for a moment (my subconscious is apparently in the "corporate equals bad" camp :) Then I thought, "HP sell their products in my country. This may mean I could order some Tabblo stuff one day, maybe even without overseas shipping charges..." Am I going too far?

Dunster said at 11:46 a.m. on May 29, 2007:
Definitely. . . maybe.

We are looking at adding non-US printing, but it's not a done deal. There are a lot of variables.

Dunster said at 3:30 p.m. on Apr 17, 2007:
Good idea.

Joaqy said at 8:40 p.m. on Apr 10, 2007:
To me, it doesn't matter if mine landed in the 'popular' section or not. Great if it did, no love lost if it didn't. My images are mine to appreciate even if the community accepts it or not. I post because I enjoy the experience, it's FUN to do and I can easily share events/stories with friends. That's my objective.

Dunster said at 10:40 a.m. on Apr 11, 2007:
We do tweak the featured and popular formulas periodically. It's a great question and I'm curious what others think.

LatentE said at 8:06 a.m. on Apr 12, 2007:
I think a simpler approach to the "popular" section could be taken. Set up a member tag for other members - "Hide popular". Similar to the tag for member photos. Then use that tag to filter the "popular" section. That way even if Ansel Adams is posting every day some members might get tired of beautiful majestic landscapes and want to see what quality tabblos other members have created.

This would involve tag processing for the popular section and allowing for a larger pool of tabblos than are displayed. But the methods involved seem to be the same as individual photo tag filter handling. Of course the "hide popular" tag could be switched on and off. I'd guess this tag handling could go in a member's "notification" page or it could be handled directly in the "popular" page with icon markers as in a member's photo page. Clicking on a displayed "popular" tabblo's "hide" icon would hide that member's "popular" tabblos and allow for other member's tabblos to be displayed. Another, more general icon could allow for the display of "hidden" tabblos and unselecting the "hide" option.

Photo tag filtering seems to be transient, requiring resetting each time the photo page is entered. Notification page values are not transient and don't clear on their own. I don't know how significant these differences are in terms of implementing a "hide popular" tag.

Whatever one's thoughts are about the significance of the popular page, that section and the "Tabblo of the day" are the only ways, other than general tabblo page scanning and clique oriented "social networking," that encourage other members to view and give feedback on a member's efforts. They are the front page of Tabblo and the longer and closer a tabblo is to the front page the more chance it will receive feedback and new fresh "unfiltered" and unprompted feedback.

AdSR said at 12:51 p.m. on Apr 12, 2007:
One good way of equalizing exposure could be having a "random tabblos" section in the community pages (or maybe random tabblo instead of tabblo of the day). It could be tweaked for probability or not, but the general idea is that when it's random, harder-to-reach tabblos get the same chance as new, popular, often-favorited ones.

Zero42 said at 7:47 p.m. on Apr 16, 2007:
I think one mention per user is enough, but I'm a little skeptic of having a publicly visible rating system. Think of how the site would be if the ratings were only internally used and only displayed to the user about their own creations. I have to admit that by default when I see a member list, I think of the people on it differently if they are in an order. I assume that others may have this tendency. Knowing the hierarchy doesn't stop me, but it deters me, or guides me away from being likely to click on things I wouldn't otherwise. Maybe rank lists randomly, but slightly weighted; say, every 3rd image is random and the rest are ranked?

I'm going to tangent slightly, but this is on the topic of exposure: It seems that everyone uses 'groups' like categories, but I think if a browsable category system were in place, groups would be used for more specific purposes, and exposure would be enhanced all over. There would be a front page (similar to the current group page) hosting the most popular images in that category (based on rating), a section for the featured, the most recent, etc. The key difference to categories would be that they are predefined. They would appear as a 'finish' option just like groups.

Personally, I didn't know what the *wink* was about.

Dunster said at 10:43 a.m. on Apr 11, 2007:
We don't have a landscape poster option at this time. If you just have images you can just lay them out sideways - but the text can't be sideways. Landscape posters are on the feature list somewhere, but not built yet.

Allinnawa said at 2:32 p.m. on Jun 6, 2007:
I want to do the same thing. A 17" x 11" poster rather than a 11" x 17". What I don't understand is that a few months ago I was able to make one, and now I can't. Why have you removed the functionality?

Dunster said at 4:38 p.m. on Jun 6, 2007:
Here's a way to make a landscape poster: create your tabblo as an online tabblo. Then, on your online tabblo, click "purchase." It will give you the option to purchase your online tabblo as a poster, and in that poster-preview mode you can convert it to landscape.

As for "why," it's a bit complicated. We're always updating the site to launch new products or re-do sections that we've learned how to implement better. Think of it like a long road - you don't rebuild the whole road at once, you do it section by section. Sometimes when you re-do one section, it doesn't quite match the adjacent section, until you go back and re-do that one too. In this case we re-did the "make" and "make book" process, but haven't yet re-done the "make poster" process.