ProofHQ Blog
Updates about ProofHQ, design best practice and anything we can find to amuse you that's related to design and marketing.
Measuring in pixels, inches and millimeters
The measure tool on the proof page now includes the ability to measure in inches and millimeters.
These additional options are available for files where the file dimensions are known e.g. PDF and Microsoft Office documents. For other files types where the file doues not have a physical dimension the measurement is in pixels only.
Attachments on Comments
We have just added a new feature that allows you to add attachments to comments. This has been requested by many clients and has a huge range of uses. For example, reviewers can upload alternative text as a Word doc, or alternative images. Proof owners can upload reference documents or brand guidelines.
ProofHQ Meetup, Zakopane, Poland
We had one of our quarterly team gatherings, this time at Hotel Marilor in Zakopane in the south of Poland.
Zakopane is a pretty town in the Tatra mountains in the south of Poland. At least we think it was pretty, because we had fog and rain the whole time and quite honestly couldn’t see much of anything at all.
As usual, the team gathered from all points of the compass; the UK, Poland and Qatar.
View ProofHQ Team in a larger map
Despite the weather we had a great time, meeting some team members in person for the first time, having a series of important strategy discussions and enjoying “face time”. The hotel put on an impressive BBQ for us on the final evening…
…and we did some serious damage to the hotel’s humidor.
ProofHQ is hiring: Marketing Manager
We are hiring a marketing manager to join our team.
We are looking for a smart, social-media savvy marketing manager who can help us with a wide range of marketing activity. They will:
- Manage our demand generation, website and online presence (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc)
- Develop and execute demand generation plan
- Create and execute a website development plan
- Execute product launches and releases
- Develop marketing automation
- Manage SEO, PPC and online ads
- Create webcasts
- Create white papers, case studies and sales collateral.
Yes, yes, we know that this is a very long list of To Do’s, but ProofHQ is growing so fast that we need to start covering these bases quickly and efficiently.
We are looking for someone with start-up/early stage marketing experience, ideally in B2B and ideally SaaS. We need someone who is scrappy and understands what it takes to work in an early stage company with all of the pivots and changes of direction that involves.
The person will work from home, so location is really not important. They can be in North America, the UK, Europe - in fact anywhere. The important thing is that they are self-motivated enough to get on with the job by Skype, email, GoToMeeting and, of course, ProofHQ!
If you know anyone who is interested, they can contact mat [at] proofhq.com.
June Service Levels
Below is the monthly uptime report for June 2010.
Name: ProofHQ Production.
Service: HTTP.
Host (port): www.proofhq.com (80)
Check period: 3 minutes
# of checks: 14091
# of outsages: 0
# of failed checks: 0
Uptime: 100%
Avg response time: 0.157 s
Upgrades to the proof page
We have just released some important upgrades to the proof page in ProofHQ.These make a significant difference to the usability of the proof page.
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Workflow example - designers working with a project manager
“I want to give the designers access to upload files so that I can create a proof and manage the workflow. The client will access the proof I create and comment/approve. I do not want the designers to have the option of posting a “proof”, only a “file share” so that I can create the proof. What is the best workflow situation for me?”
Here is our recommended workflow:
If you set your designers up with a profile of “Observer” they will only be able to use the Share File function – the New Proof function will be disabled. If they share the file with you, you will see the file and be able to convert it to a proof. Here are the steps:- Designer logs in and uses the New > File Share function. Makes you the Owner. Does not need to share the file with you as you are the owner.
- You receive an email saying “File uploaded” for you.
- You log in and find the file on the Dashboard or in the Shared Files list in All Items.
- You click on the actions menu in the Shared Files list and select “Convert to proof”. You can then set the proof settings as normal and add your client.
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Your client does not need to have a login as they receive proof links by email.
If you have any workflow question, please feel free to email us.
Deleting individual versions
Everyone makes mistakes and sometime people upload version of a proof that they then want to remove.You can now delete individual versions in a version set.
- Go to the proof details page.
- Go to the versions list (see below).
- Click on the Delete link next to the version that you want to delete.
- That version will be moved to Trash.
ProofHQ Updates This Week
Over the next few weeks we have some big news and big new releases. However, small enhancements and bug fixes continue.
We have released a series of small updates this week:
New “Decisions” Email
One of the most frequently requested workflow features is an email notification that is sent when a decision is made.People find the “All comments and replies” setting creates too much email, but “Hourly summary”may leave too long between a decision and the notification, especially on a time-critical project.Today we added a new setting of “Decisions”. This sends an email notification only when a decision is made.. Learn more »