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Picasa Web Album Testing New Homepage

Keith Chan [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, October 13, 2007
16 years ago3,142 views

It seems that Picasa Web Album is testing with new homepage layouts and probably they are using AdWord Website Optimizer to track the performance. :P

Old Layout:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_E0dlF4_71TI/RxBwphbLlLI/AAAAAAAACzI/nz2HagUt2lA/s1600-h/picasa-old.png

New Layouts:
http://bp0.blogger.com/_E0dlF4_71TI/RxBwpxbLlMI/AAAAAAAACzQ/V4jVEhuzmOI/s1600-h/picasa-new-1.png
"Easy uploads; See Pictures Faster; 1GB free storage*; Integrate with Picasa"
*Note the inconsistence of capitalization, it's so roughly made

http://bp1.blogger.com/_E0dlF4_71TI/RxBwqBbLlNI/AAAAAAAACzY/VPJiV_D8h20/s1600-h/picasa-new-2.png
"Share photos in seconds; Friends and family; See what's new with friends; Bigger, better pictures"

Which one (or the old one) is better? Any good suggestions for better tagline, e.g. Flickr sucks ?

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

number 3 looks more like Gmail

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I can see it too..

And i agree with James :)

Keith Chan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

One significant different between #3 and Gmail is that there is no storage counter :P

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Strange Though; "Each account gets 1GB (and counting!) of free storage – that's enough to post and share around 4,000 standard resolution photos"

And counting?

from http://picasa.google.com/intl/en_US/web/learn_more_picasa.html

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Also notice that the " New Features " link is gone now, and instead there's a link to their latest Photos blog.

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Yeah... One of the shortest "New Features" ever for Google!

Mambo [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

The "Google" name seems to be more prominent now. It looks like they're gradually shifting towards it being a feature of an overall product (i.e. rather than being Picasa Web Albums, it's Photo Sharing from Google).

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

They should link to some sample albums.

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Like this for example:
http://picasaweb.google.com/picasateam

Keith Chan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I figured out how the images would show up here:

Old Layout:
http://lh6.google.com/album.keith/RxBwphbLlLI/AAAAAAAACzI/vnP8tlqfWqE/picasa-old.png

New Layouts:
http://lh3.google.com/album.keith/RxBwpxbLlMI/AAAAAAAACzQ/1LnRAA2qtng/picasa-new-1.png

http://lh4.google.com/album.keith/RxBwqBbLlNI/AAAAAAAACzY/ar6Af-ZGklE/picasa-new-2.png

James Xuan [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

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