Purchasing Content… Generally Vendors offer their content (slides usually) for purchase. To visit the vendor site right click on a gallery image and choose the Product page menu item. If the Product Page menu item is grayed out then a link to the product page is not available. Visiting the Vendor Site may provide additional information in this case. Monthly …

Site security update… Additional security has recently been implemented on the Slide Magician site. This additional security includes registered user login. A minor added step is required at login to pass a CAPTCHA check. Monthly Content The specifics of the deliveries are: Explaindio… (100 slides) Month 29 – Accountant Month 29 – Blackboard Diagrams Month 29 – Clean Style Month …

Content tags and filters… A change to the presentation of content tags is now in operation. Previously Content tags would be presented for an entire visual library category. The new presentation is designed to reduce the size of a displayed tag list. Only those tags associated with currently found images will be visible. For example assume you are in a …

Purchasing content… The question of purchasing content comes up quite often. The answer is that content must be purchased from the original vendor. There are links to vendor pages directly from the visual library images. Simply right click when hovering over a visual library image. Then select the Product Page menu item to visit the vendor product page. In some …

Content Tags and their flavors… Being able to find/filter Slides, Backgrounds and Elements (collectively known as “Items”) in the visual library is a great time saver. Here are some points on effective use of Content filtering… Item content tags are created based on: a) Objects in an Item and any variant or pseudonym to the Item (e.g. Character, Male; Circle; …

Tabs and accordions in the gallery user interface… The Search/Filter, Information and extended Navigation controls are in panels under accordions and tabs. By default the panel content is collapsed (hidden). All accordions and tabs can be expanded to show their panels by clicking on their title. In the case of the Filter panel, once filtering has been done simply click …

New UI Filtering and Viewing Hints… Filtering criteria such as Vendor, Date Range, Content all operate together to narrow the found set of Slides, Backgrounds or Elements. For example if you were looking for Slides with a Male Character from VideoMakerFX then… Select the radio button for “VideoMakerFX” in the Vendor & Date tab then go over to the Content …

Gallery filter by release date… Filtering by release date has been added this month to Slides and Elements libraries. Backgrounds will get this feature shortly. The date filtering is combined with the vendor filtering under the one tab. Filtering can be done by start date which selects everything from a date, end date which selects everything up to a date …

Gallery view for search and display… The updated user interface initial release is now online. Tabs and accordions now display or hide filters and navigation controls. All tabs and accordions are collapsible so maximum screen real estate can made available to the image items being viewed. The view composition retains the familiar format with slides and backgrounds in a 3 …

Nearly there… The updated user interface is approaching readiness. Improvements will include using tabs and accordions to enable display/hide of filters and navigation controls. This will make it easy to select detailed filters and then collapse the filter panels so the content can be easily viewed. Stay tuned… almost there! Monthly Content The specifics of the deliveries are: Explaindio… (100 …