ProofHQ Tutorial Movies
We wanted to provide an easy to access list of our tutorial movies:
New ProofHQ Release
We just released a new version of ProofHQ. Here’s a summary of the main features.
New Dashboard
We have introduced a brand new Dashboard that will give you a much clearer view of all of the activities on your proofs.
There is a new Overview section, which helps filter quickly to the proofs that you have to either review or manage.
We have created a new Stats section, so you can keep up to date with the proof and storage that you are using.
We have also added filters to the Recent Activity section so that you can filter to view New Comments, New Proofs and Decisions.
Additional options for proofs
We have added some additional controls to the Create Proof and New Version:
Proof Owner. When you create a proof you can now make someone else in your organization the owner of the proof. For example, a designer may create a proof, but make an account manager the owner.
Activate passcode. You can quickly add a passcode to your proof for additional security.
Block download of the original file. You can now prevent reviewers downloading the original file.
Block the embed code. You can now block the embed code being used so that reviewers are not able to embed a miniproof.
Block the public URL. You can now block the public URL being used so reviewers can only access the proof via the personal URL that they receive in the New Proof emails.
If you are interested in joining the Beta for the API, please contact us at support@proofhq.com.
Amex and PayPal
We have had calls from lots of people asking why they can’t pay using Amex.
The simple answer is that we use PayPal to manage our credit card processing. Unfortunately PayPal in the UK doesn’t have a deal with Amex and won’t process Amex cards. We have spent about 2 months working with PayPal to try and resolve this problem including days in the developer forums, but the end result is “can’t do it”.
The upshot is that we are switching to another credit card processor and will be able to take Amex in about 2 weeks time.
New ProofHQ release
We released a great new version this weekend. The main focus of this release is improving the usability of ProofHQ, especially the proof page.
Our whole mantra is “quick, simple, easy online proofing”, so we have been listening to your feedback and working hard to improve how you and your reviewers work with ProofHQ.
We made a couple of obvious changes, and lots of small ones. We hope that these make online proofing with ProofHQ even easier.
More obvious mark-up tools
The first big change is that we have moved the mark-up tool into the header of the proof, so that they are the first thing reviewers see when they open a proof.
Reviewers can now open the proof with just one click and start marking-up and commenting on the proof with just one more click.
New tutorial movie on the proof page
We have added a new tutorial movie to the proof page.
A link to the movie appears whenever a reviewer opens a proof. Regular users can hide the movie so that they don’t need to see it each time, although it is always available in the Help menu.
(The movie is a bit basic right now, but will be updated in the next few days)
Multi-page proofs - page navigation
You will notice a new button at the bottom of the proof that opens up thumbnail images for each page. Just click on a thumbnail and you will go to the new page.
Easier navigation from the proof page to the rest of ProofHQ
You can navigate around ProofHQ more easily. We have created a new menu in the proof page call “Go To”. From that menu you can go to the detail page for the proof, the dashboard, the proofs list and the workspaces list.
Today’s outage
We want to apologise profusely for the outage today. It’s the first time this year that we have had any unplanned downtime (in fact third time only in four years!) and it’s galling that it happened.
The problem was with a network component in one of our data centers and so affected both our main and backup systems. We have rectified that specific problem and will be reviewing the infrastructure again to make sure that there cannot be a repeat. We are also reviewing our service level agreement with our data center provider so that future problems will be rectified faster.
As a result of today’s outage we want to be totally transparent about our uptime record and will be publishing our uptime data on our website so that can see our performance. This data will be generated and validated by a third party.
Once again, I apologise for the events today and can assure you that it is our number one priority to ensure that there is no repeat.
Can design save the world?
Put’s our self-obsessed “designy” lives in perspective.
Designed by Frank Chimero. Spotted by Swiss Miss and Joanna Goddard.
Review of ProofHQ on Bright Hub (Natasha Baker)
Natasha Baker has written a review of ProofHQ for Bright Hub.
Initially Natasha seemed quite sceptical:
“ProofHQ reduces the time and cost of managing proofing and approvals for everyone involved….. That’s a big claim……. I had my doubts. “
But after an extensive road test and review, we definitely got the thumbs up:
“ProofHQ is my dream come true. I highly recommend ProofHQ to add to your project management arsenal. The application’s seamless integration with Basecamp is an awesome functionality that I have already began to tout as a service that I provide to would-be clients. “
Great news and thank you Natasha for taking the time to try the product.
New release
We pushed out a new release yesterday.
We have introduced icons in the proofs list tab to show you the status of proofs.
We have added Workspace selection to the desktop Uploadr. This is the desktop tool that lets you drag and drop files for proofing directly from your desktop. Now, when you upload proofs from your desktop, you can add proofs to a Workspace.
You can get the Uploadr here http://www.proofhq.com/html/uploadr.html
There have been numerous other small improvements.
As always, comments and feedback most welcome.
Veer Summer Fun - annual creative activity book
Veer have produced their annual activity book for creatives.
You can download it here.
Here is a preview:
Embedding a proof in blogs and wikis
You can now embed a proof in blogs and wikis using ProofHQs embed code. This embeds a smaller version of the main proof page which users can zoom, pan, view existing comments and move from page to page. Here is an example:
If you want to reply to a comment, create a new comment, or view the full proof page, just click on the new comment or full page buttons. This will open the full proof page, where you enter your details and continue proofing. See below…
Every proof now has an embed code. You will find this on the proof detail page here…
..and under the file menu on the proof page here…
