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<description>The latest from EntryThingy - the embeddable digital call for entries, entry management and jurying software for art, photography and video exhibitions, festivals, fairs and competitions</description>
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<title>Artist space assignments</title>
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Now you can assign space codes to accepted entries and sort by these codes. Use whichever coding scheme you like. You can assign the codes in the entries list and also in the entries images wall. To assign or edit the code for an entry, just click where is says 'space:'.<br><br><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4408839429_9e657c2787_o.png" width="710" height="400" alt="space codes" border=1/><br><br>The space codes will show for each artist in your image gallery widget - great for visitors to find out where their favorite artists are!<br><br><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2638/4408839557_17ab5502dd_o.png" width="710" height="309" alt="gallery space code" border=1 /><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-03-05T20:56:00UTC</pubDate>
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<title>Token History</title>
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You pay for EntryThingy by purchasing tokens. Your token account is debited when you receive new entries, use the alert emailer or store entries for more than a year. Your token account is credited when you delete submitted entries or set the status of submitted entries back to not submitted.<br><br>Starting today, we're recording each of these transactions and making these records available to you in the Admin area of your EntryThingy - click on [tokens] to get a page that looks like this:<br><br><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2736/4385656708_c83e1e4140_o.png" width="709" height="444" alt="Jury Processing Page for the Bonita Springs National Art Festivals_1267039489659" border=1 /><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-02-28T03:18:47UTC</pubDate>
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<title>New Video: Adding a call for entries. The details.</title>
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<pubDate>2010-02-26T05:51:19UTC</pubDate>
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<title>Asking for artist statement and resume</title>
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Now you can ask entrants to submit their artist statement and resume - and optionally link to their profile (with statement and resume) from the juror's entry view.<br><br>To enable this, login as admin, click into a call for entries, click [settings] and then [edit]. Scroll down and select 'Ask for statement and resume', scroll down a little more and select 'Show link to entrant profile' - then click 'Save'.<br><br>Now, when an entrant adds their entry, there will be a new page shown when they start their entry where they will be asked to paste their statement and resume. They can also add and edit both in their profile by clicking 'My Profile' and [edit].<br><br>With the 'Show link to entrant profile' enabled for a call for entries, jurors will see a link to the entrant's profile that they can click and view the statement and resume.<br><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-02-15T05:11:52UTC</pubDate>
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<title>Styling your EntryThingy</title>
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<i>This post is a little geeky (not the first one, I'll admit) - but basically it's about making your EntryThingy look even cooler. It's ok if you don't understand any of this - your web designer will. And if you don't have a web designer and feel like doing some fancy stuff... well, just let us know and we'll help out!</i><br><br><div style='float:left; margin-right:15px; margin-bottom:15px;'><img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/2439051714_a7ef7c67d7_m.jpg></div>Until now, most of the UI elements in EntryThingy have not been exposed to CSS styling. That's ok for most sites, because it simply takes on the look of your site - automatically. But if you'd like to do some fancy stuff, like change the color or size of text fields or buttons, for example - well, now you can do that!<br><br>It all boils down to the CSS stylesheet which is here:<br><br><a href=http://entrythingy.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/entrythingy_widget1.css>http://entrythingy.s3.amazonaws.com/resources/entrythingy_widget1.css</a>.<br><br>Take a look at it - it doesn't really do that much except make sure things aren't all bunched together and the text fields have a certain size.<br><br>You can point EntryThingy to your own copy of this CSS file with your settings by adding the following line to your EntryThingy code - just above the entryThingy(); statement:<br><br>w_['css']="http://yourcssfile.css";<br><br>In that file, just edit the class definitions to suit your needs and you're done - the class names are pretty much self explanatory - please contact us if you have any questions!<br><br>How about that.<br><br>Big thanks to Jason of <a href=http://www.htmlgraphic.com>HTML Graphic</a> for getting this going! He's responsible for the <a href=http://www.artseventsinc.com>Arts Events, Inc.</a> web site.<br><br>Photo by <a href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/risager>risager</a><br><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-02-11T14:39:41UTC</pubDate>
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<title>How to show a list of shows instead of the registration form</title>
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When you first go to your EntryThingy, it shows the entrant registration form. Now you can show a list of your shows that looks similar to the Main view when you're logged in to your EntryThingy - along with links to the registration form and login form. It'll look similar to the image shown below.<br><br>To enable this, add the following line to your EntryThingy HTML code, just above the entryThingy(); statement:<blockquote>w_['startwith']="list";</blockquote><br><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4336778430_38d8084b39.jpg" width="500" height="308" alt="" /><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-02-07T04:50:12UTC</pubDate>
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<title>Soliciting art exhibition proposals with Entrythingy</title>
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<div style='float:left;margin-right:15px;'><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4017/4308324232_90729120ee.jpg" width="230" height="500" alt="et proposals" border=1 /></div>You can also use EntryThingy to solicit exhibition proposals. It's not really all that different from a call for entries - it's just that some of the settings are a bit different:<br><br>Just add a new call for entries, add entry instructions, terms of entry and a description, don't set deadline, notification or show dates, set the maximum uploads per entry to a higher number, increase the length of the description of work and set 'Vote for each' to 'Entry'. Make an announcement on your site and point to your EntryThingy page.<br><br>Let it run for a while - collecting proposals - when you're ready to jury the proposals, change the call for entry status to 'Show to Jury only', add a new call for entries with the same settings as the former and enable it by setting the status to 'Show to entrants and jury'. Then you can jury the received proposals while again collecting new proposals.<br><br>How about that!<br><div style="clear:both;"></div><br><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-02-03T06:13:17UTC</pubDate>
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<title>Entry and jury fee payments with Paypal</title>
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The easiest way to receive jury fee payments is through Paypal (or any other payment gateway that you use!). You can setup EntryThingy to automatically calculate the jury fee, add the unique entry number to the item name and send entrants to your payment page after they've added their entry. Here's how it can be done with Paypal.<br><br>All this is done in the 'Default Instructions for Entrants After Entry is Submitted' text area in the show settings. And because it's just a text field, you can configure it whichever way you like. So it can have a Paypal payment button along with instructions and also your address for entrants that want to pay by check. <br><br>Now please don't be alarmed - sample code for all of this is shown under the images below. You can ask your web designer to take a look at this or just ask us and we'll put it together for you.<br><br>This is a sample of what it could look like in EntryThingy:<br><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2754/4301136927_f8250c0c2e_o.png" width="396" height="247" alt="et paypal1" border=1 /><br><br>And this is what it looks like when the entrant clicks over to Paypal:<br><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4301125963_c60d5694bb_o.png" width="627" height="194" alt="et paypal2" broder=1 /><br><br>This is the code for the Paypal button:<blockquote>&#38;lt;form action='https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr' method='post'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='image' src='https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif' border='0' name='submit' alt='Buy now.'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;img alt='' border='0' src='https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif' width='1' height='1'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='cmd' value='_xclick'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='business' value='yourpaypalemail'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' id='item_name' name='item_name' value='Entry fee for entry &#38;lt;$entrynumber$&#38;gt;'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='item_number' value='&#38;lt;$entrynumber$&#38;gt;'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='no_shipping' value='1'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='return' value='http://www.yourwebsite.com'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='cancel_return' value='http://www.yourwebsite.com'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='no_note' value='1'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='currency_code' value='USD'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='lc' value='US'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input type='hidden' name='bn' value='PP-BuyNowBF'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;input id='price' type='hidden' name='amount' value='35.00'&#38;gt;<br>&#38;lt;form&#38;gt;</blockquote> Just change the <i>business</i>, <i>return</i>, <i>cancel_return</i> and <i>amount</i> values.<br><br>And if you want to automatically calculate the amount based on whether an entrant is a member or not, you can add a dropdown that looks like this:<blockquote>Are you a Member? &#38;lt;select id=membership&#38;gt;&#38;lt;option value=u&#38;gt;&#38;lt;option value=y&#38;gt;Yes, I am a member&#38;lt;option value=n&#38;gt;No, I am not a member&#38;lt;/select&#38;gt;</blockquote>and add this to the Paypal button &#38;lt;form&#38;gt; element:<blockquote>onsubmit='return checkPaypal();'</blockquote>And then add javascript code to the EntryThingy code on the page on your site like this: (this code even calculates the fee based on how many images they've uploaded)<blockquote>function checkPaypalPayment() {<br>if ($('membership').value=='u') {<br>alert('Ooops. Please indicate whether you are a member or not.');<br>return false;&#9;<br>}<br>$('item_name').value=($('membership').value=='y'?'Member':'Non-Member')+" entry fee for entry <$entrynumber$>";<br>var price;<br>if ($('membership').value=='y') {<br>&#9;if (currrevisions.length<=3) price=30;<br>&#9;else price=40;<br>}<br>else {<br>&#9;if (currrevisions.length<=3) price=40;<br>&#9;else price=50;<br>}<br>if (currrevisions.length>5) price+=5*(currrevisions.length-5);<br>$('price').value=price+".00";<br>return true;<br>}</blockquote><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-01-29T04:06:48UTC</pubDate>
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<title>Backups now stored on the other side of the continent</title>
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<div style='float:left; margin-right:15px;margin-bottom:15px;'><img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3329/3595638548_170637c59c_m.jpg><br></div>EntryThingy runs on <a href=http://aws.amazon.com/>Amazon's AWS</a> - in a data center on the east coast somewhere in Virgina. They recently <a href=http://aws.amazon.com/>announced the availability</a> of a new data center on the west coast in Northern California.<br><br>We had previously been running nightly backups of all EntryThingy data to S3 buckets in the east coast data center - now these backups are being stored in the west coast facility.<br><br>What does this mean? Well, if the east coast facility goes up in smoke, we can just startup the EntryThingy software on new servers in the west coast data center with the backed up data and we're up and running again.<br><br>Now that's pretty cool.<br><br>By the way: The live data is stored in <a href=https://s3.amazonaws.com/>S3</a> and <a href=http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/>EBS</a>. And data stored in Amazon S3 and EBS is redundantly stored in multiple physical locations as part of normal operation of those services ... see the <a href=http://awsmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/AWS_Security_Whitepaper.pdf>security whitepaper</a> for more details.<br><br><div xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/neospire/3595638548/"><font size=-1>(Image by <a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/neospire/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/neospire</a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a>)</font></div><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-01-26T17:28:18UTC</pubDate>
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<title>I want to send emails to my entrants</title>
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And now you can! With the new entrant emailer, you can send emails to your entrants based on the status of their entry. You can notify artists that they've been accepted, that they haven't paid their jury fee yet, send them important information regarding the show... and, and, and. Watch the video to see how it works:<br><br><embed src="http://blip.tv/play/gsJWgb_xQwA" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="732" height="442" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed><br><br><br><br>]]></description>
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<pubDate>2010-01-24T01:37:22UTC</pubDate>
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