The AfterParty

Now Cluboholic.com users can share their event photos with the world. This feature can be used by anyone whether he’s a clubber carrying a camera, a photographer testing his low-light skills or a promoter who wants to show off his event. You can upload photos from any event in Cyprus that was posted on cluboholic.com’s event list, this applies to recent and old events (if you have some forgotten photos on your hard drive from an event that took place a long time ago you can still upload them for the sake of documenting clubbing history!).

To start an album you will need at least 10 photos. While logged in click on the Create New Album button which can be found at the top right of the Photos section.

The following is a step by step guide on how to create your first album:

• Step 1: Pick the Event you’re uploading photos for at the following screen:

You can use the Previous and Next buttons to move in time through the event list or use Search to quickly find the event you are looking for by typing in a keyword. When you can see the event in the list click on it and it will appear under the Selected Event heading, then click Create. Please note that each user may only create one album per event, so if you happen to find more photos from the same you want to add later, just add them to the album you already created.

• Step 2: Your Albums Page

After the album is created you will be taken to your albums page where you can manage all albums you have created until now and a new empty entry for the one you just created will be there like the screenshot below.

• View - that shows a preview of the album and lets you delete individual photos if necessary.
• Upload Photos - Pops up the upload window where you can select files and upload them.
• Publish -When you are ready this button takes the album online, once published your album will appear automatically in the Photos section of cluboholic.com.
• Delete - Deletes the album and all the associated photos. There’s no way to undo this so make sure you know what you are doing.

After being requested by a user, I’ve added support to the site’s gallery for CoolIris. If you haven’t tried it before it’s a cool little plug in for Firefox and Internet Explorer (will work on Safari too I think) which lets you browse photos from site galleries in a smooth 3D wall. A lot of websites are supported (Facebook, Google Image Search and Flickr are pretty useful) and now cluboholic.com. Get the plugin from http://www.cooliris.com/ and try it out.

Just added this new feature, that allows you to post comments under each event photo. The same comment system will also be used in other parts of the site in the near future. As always if you find any problems with it please let me know so i can fix it.

It also provides a sneak-peek into the new look of cluboholic.com that’s in the works; we’re finally heading away from the blue shades into a more modern and neutral dark-gray design. Hopefully I’ll be done with it soon. If you’re a web designer and want to help send me a message and i’ll get you in the loop.