TinyPic Launches Member Themes by Mark
November 04, 2008 in Happy Clients with 1 Comment
TinyPic is an image and video sharing service with a no-frills (registration-free) uploader. We've worked with TinyPic since last year and have had tons of fun working on great projects with their team. The latest feature to launch was themed member profiles. We had the pleasure of designing and coding the six starter themes.
Little Background Info
TinyPic first launched registration for their members several months ago and have since had much success in new sign-ups. Long time unregistered users were huge fans of the easy uploading process, simple sharing, and even vanity URLs. Many signed up in short order and were quickly enjoying enhanced features like editing, deletion, and even albums.
Although members loved all those features, they clamored for more. Profile themes was one of the most popular requests. We decided it was an easy to implement feature and pushed forward on it. So far, people seem to love it!
Themes in Action
You can check out some of the new themes for yourself by visiting the TinyPic team's pages.
Mike and Tony are in the dark and Alex is busy playing in the grass. If you use TinyPic already and aren't registered, sign up today and get your own themed profile. All your pages—Home, Uploads, Albums, and more—get styled when you set your theme. It's pretty slick!
Stay tuned. We're launching more and more exciting features with these guys in the coming months!
1 Comment
Jeremy (ZURB) says:
This is a great example of listening to your customers to identify something easy to do that carries a big emotional impact for them with simple personalization. Now die hard TinyPic'ers have a chance to stretch out their legs and show off their homes on tinypic.com.
One of the cool things about this feature is what it isn't. It's not a complete, open-ended customization option for users. No, it's a limited selection of "canned" themes. This made for the best and "tiniest" first pass at addressing user's requests for a bit of personalization. It got out the door quick and is a clean implementation we can build on in the near future should those same users keep asking for more.
For my part I've chosen the Fall theme now that the leaves are falling even in California: http://tinypic.com/jbritton
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