Thank you to everyone for your patience during the Albumz Center face-lift! Today marks the official launch of this feature.  We’re excited to provide you with many new features such as the ability to create and post a slideshow to your site in minutes, oodles of editing and design options, quickly create albums by dragging and dropping images and so much more!

We wanted to provide you with some information on what to expect during the launch.

Some of you may notice that all of your images in your Admin Albumz and Uploads>Images folders aren’t there.

Not to worry…they’re there!  We’re just in the process of migrating the tons of photos over to the new experience and it takes time to do so.  Please be patient – the photo’s may not be available in your Admin view but they are available on your website (public view). 

What can I do to expedite the process of my photos being migrated?

If you proceed to your Admin and click the “Albums” link, you’ll be placed at the top of the queue for migration and all your images will appear in your Admin shortly (please allow for 24 hours).

If you see most of your images in Admin but some aren’t there, there could be a few reasons.

1. If the name of your image had a special character in the title (ex: -, ~,&, etc), the image may have not been migrated over correctly.  We are actively working to resolve this as our top priority.  Please check back frequently for your images to be updated.
2. In certain cases, the names of images were formatted such that they pulled up broken images on the old photos system.  Because these images were broken and not able to be located by our system, we did not migrate the names over.  These broken images were still taking up your disk space.  You will no longer have broken images on the site and they won’t take up disk space.
3. It is possible that images were uploaded after the site’s images were migrated.  In this case, the images will need to be re-migrated.  If you go into your Admin and click the “Albums” link, you will be placed at the top of the queue for migration.

If your site isn't migrated yet you will not see images, files, etc. when attempting to use the "add file" and "add image" buttons in the Welcome and News folders for example.    This will be resolved when your site is migrated.

Please review all of our Albumz FAQ’s at:

http://www.eteamz.com/websites/albums-faqs

We’re excited to bring this fun experience to you and your team and can’t wait to hear feedback on what you think!  Please contact support via the Contact Support folder in your Site Admin with any questions.

If you’re like most teams, you not only want to showcase your team but also the League or Organization you’re a part of.  Now you can with our customizable templates and it’s as easy as the click of a mouse.

1) Navigate to the Customize section of your Site Appearance folder in Admin

2) Select the Logo tab at the top of the page

3) Choose a previously uploaded image or upload a new one (you can even make the image clickable to an external website if you want!)

4) Be sure to save your changes and the image will display under your Site Menu for those that select the "side" Menu Style

Already displaying your league logo elsewhere on your site?  Here are some other useful ideas on how to best use this space:
Upload an image of one of your sponsors

Upload an image of the Player of the Week

Create an image with your team/league's contact information (You can easily do an online search for free image creators)

We wanted to let you know about a few changes regarding our partnership with Shutterfly.  After a successful three years, our integrated partnership with Shutterfly has ended.  We appreciate the quality service they have provided to eteamz customers and enjoyed having them as part of the team.  Due to this change, you'll no longer be able to upload photos directly to your Shutterfly account from within eteamz.  You can, however, continue to upload pictures directly onto eteamz through the Albumz folder in the site admin tool.  There is no need to worry about your existing Shutterfly albumz; your photos will still be displayed on your eteamz site and still located on the Shutterfly service. 

So how do you get started with the new eteamz Albumz when it launches?  That's the best news yet!  There's nothing special for you to do - we'll do all the work for you!  All your eteamz Albumz will automatically be transferred to our new eteamz Albumz and links to your existing Shutterfly Albumz will still be available on your eteamz site for as long as you keep those photos on the Shutterfly service. 

Please feel free to contact eteamz support if you have any questions and thank you for being an eteamz customer and allowing us to share in your active lifestyle.

We've been working diligently to improve your photo albumz experience on eteamz.

Here's a sneak-peek at some exciting new features we'll be adding!

• Cinematically view, browse and share your photos directly in your eteamz site

• Create slideshows & share with one-click posting to your website

• Oodles of editing and design options via our picnik integration

• Drag-n-Drop photos from one album to another

• Customize and buy prints, calendars, mugs, cards and more!

And get this! Along with the new eteamz Albumz Center, you'll be able to purchase 5GB of storage space at a price lower than you pay for 20MB today! Be sure to take advantage of this offer when the new eteamz Albumz Center goes live! Now that's something to get excited about!

Best of all, there's nothing special for you to do - we'll do all the work for you. We simply wanted to share the exciting news!

We just know you're going to love the new photo experience on eteamz just as much as we do and can't wait for you to see it in action so STAY TUNED or learn more!

Of course you want your eteamz website to perfectly match your team colors...especially when they're fluorescent orange and baby blue. Well here's a tip to help you easily customize your website colors to perfectly match your team!

From the Customize folder,

1) Select a color by clicking the color box and choose either one of our eteamz standard colors or enter your own HEX code number in the box at the bottom right

2) Click the green "SAVE" button in the upper right of the page

3) Click the close button and your new color selection will automatically appear on your web site

If you're not familiar with HEX codes, using the following color guide will help you find nearly any shade under the sun. This guide displays 2 columns with different color codes - one for RGB color code and the other for the HEX #. Make sure you use the column for "HEX #" which is consistent with what we use on the eteamz sites.

Don't have one of our new fully-customizable templates? Simply login and upgrade to PLUS. From your Site Appearances, then Customize folder you'll be able to change the colors of your site.

And don't forget to submit your colorful new site to our monthly Spotlight Site Contest.

Posting news on your website is a great way to keep your members up to date on the latest team news. So it's important to know how to jump in and make edits. Here are 5 easy steps to quickly edit your site news and keep your site as up to date as possible.

1) Go to you're My Site News folder within Site Admin

2) Select the appropriate category from the drop down menu found in the upper right of the page (you will have one category on a free site and can add up to 16 pages/news categories on PLUS sites)

3) Click "Go" and it will bring up the list of news items you've posted

4) Click the box for the news item you'd like to edit

5) Click on the pencil icon to the right and begin editing.

Be sure to click the "Update My Site News" button to save any changes.

Not a PLUS member? Login and Upgrade to PLUS now!