If And How Have You Integrated Pixels In To Your Website?

http://www.edwardfielding.com - using a Wix site and the FAA/Pixels widgets

That's a great question Leigh. It will be interesting to see how other artist have done this. I played with this for a long time. I ended up linking the images in my gallery to their pixels page.

David

https://cuttsnaturephotogr.wixsite.com/blog

Hi guys,

Thanks for your replies, I'm also using WIX. I'm always interested in such things, websites are very important nowadays, I'm no web designer but I am pretty experienced with graphics and that's my thing :) so, although it's been a bit of a labour of love I think that it's important to try and have a website in this day and age. I'll be having a look at your websites in a sec..

Kind regards

Leigh

I'm using the shopping cart widget on my site in several ways. In addition to just having the full widget on a page, I have a cart button on each page that opens to the shopping cart contents. Also, there is a "Buy Print" button on each gallery image to open the widget to the respective image.

https://selanderfineart.com/

Hi William, thanks, I'll check out your site.

Best wishes

Leigh

That pop up is kind of annoying! and I wouldn't want to click on it A lot going on on the homepage.

fully https wingsdomain.com using wordpress and linking to my custom.artistwebsites.com images where the https is lost except for my custom cart icon/link.

Thanks for the feedback Jessica, Hi I do agree the popup is annoying, it's not going to be there for long :). I put the intro page in so that folks could just visit the shop orf the full website depending on what they wanted to do. thanks for the infrormation Wingsdomain.

Main website built with wordpress https://markandrewthomas.com. The Galleries & Prints page leads to my artist website.

Two of mine using Wordpress with FAA shopping cart widgets.

https://www.gregnorrell.com/
https://www.tetonart.com/

I added the shopping cart widget to my existing Weebly site as a page that opens in a new tab. In fact that was a huge factor in my decision to pay for a premium membership here, that and the unlimited uploads.

Hi guys, thanks for sharing, I also chose premium for the shopping cart functionality. I'm also on Wordpress, I have a blog there but it's the free Wordpress and not the paid version. I've just added a shopping cart link. some very good ideas here. Enjoying viewing your websites and your work.

Best wishes

Leigh

My website is hosted by Photium.com, which has the best customer service I've ever found on the net.

I didn't use any widgets, but have manually linked my images to their corresponding pixels pages, so that they act as my sales pages.

http://murraybloomphoto.com/

I used to promote pixels, then my custom sub-domain, but both are a waste of time; as fineartamerica tries to take over everything with their cannonical ref tags and now has 'original source' links on the bottom of every page on artistwebsites.

I still use widgets, shopping cart and direct links but am going to mirror everything to my own pages and promote them above all else; then have a buy link.

Anything else is just promoting Fine Art America and not good for your own SEO.

Michel
https://photos.travelnotes.org/

Hi Leigh,

I have a Wordpress website. I embed the code found in Behind The Scenes > Your Own Website > Shopping Cart Widgets in a page I created in Wordpress called Shop. It seems to work fine.

My website is http://www.ambientlens.com. If you need help, you can PM me.

Art

Finally I got my new site set up http://yoursbyshores.com under Portfolio.

You may be interested in looking at this sample page I created to demonstrate linking the widget to a specific image and product type using a lightbox:

https://selanderfineart.com/faality/

I like how you've done your galleries as well, using Highslide JS.

https://selanderfineart.com/wildlife.html

Thanks, Travel Pics,

Highslide is a much more robust lightbox and is now free to use under the MIT license, but I don't know that it's being updated anymore.

Lity is very streamlined and easy to use but no features

The method should work with any lightbox that can handle external links.iframes.

Murray, I can't get over how awesome your website looks.

https://www.jaiart.com/

Click the SHOP link on the top menu and it goes to my artist website.

I had a WordPress site and linked my images from each individual description and not as a widget as a whole. If you use the widget for everything, as travel pics says, you giving all your SEO to FAA. If you link each image, you keep the SEO. Why even purchase the use of another site if you giving the search away.

Two examples: I do not use the widgets but do link to my Artist Website here at FAA/Pixels.

1) I am building a niche website for my photographs of Fort Mchenry in Baltimore, MD.
On http://www.FortMcHenry.net the main navigation menu "Gallery Store" clicks through to the Fort McHenry Gallery/Collection at https://bill.pixels.com/collections/fort+mchenry.

2) On my blog site, which is being transitioned to be almost exclusively for my photography I have menu choices that lead to three different views of my A/W.
The http://www.BillSwartwout.com menu links go to my Images, Galleries and Shop display pages.


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~ Bill Swartwout Photography

Nice blog; the Bill Swartwout Photography one.

The twentyseventeen theme is simple but effective.

Have you thought about a different theme for Fort Mchenry?

Michel
https://photos.travelnotes.org/

I have one main site and link over to the pixels site, currently. I have a link "Shop for Images and Products" I've only been here a few months, so may change at late date.

Thank you, Michael. Yes, twentyseventeen is simple, effective, powerful and about as secure as one can get. I also do not load up with fancy plug-ins to do "fancy" things that aren't really needed. I also have plans for the Fort McHenry site to become an "authority site" for the landmark - with a page for many of the individual features of the fort (or at least those that warrant a decent art photograph). I've had an 18 year stint selling other people's things online (Affiliate Marketing) and 2018 will be the year I transition to focus on selling my own things. LOL

one of the issues with linking individual images to the FAA shoppping cart on one's own site is the duplication of effort in maintaining both FAA and the site gallery. I had been thinking about trying something to minimize this effort.

Here's a sample page of one idea:

https://selanderfineart.com/faality/gallery_test.php

This page builds a gellery using a small anount of php code and a text file containing the names of the works to be displayed. The thumbnail images are called form FAA. Clicking on an image opens the corresponding widget link in a lity lightbox. Adding to the gallery only requires adding the name of the work to be included to the text file. Different galleries or selections can be displayed by loading alternate text files. This example uses two files, scenic.txt and wildlife.txt. The dropdown selector reloads the page with the selected gallery file.

This sample uses three text files for the galleries. The dropdown selector reloads the page utilizing the specific file for the selected gallery.

This method can also be used with a database that offers more selection/sorting options, etc.

If anyone is interested, I can offer more details on how this is accomplished.

William, you have an https URL so need to call all images from https sources as well, or your padlock breaks.... which puts some people in a panic, for no real reason.

Michel
https://photos.travelnotes.org/

Travel, this is just a sample page, I wasn't concerned with ssl security. But thanks for pointing out the missing "s"

I also use wix I just put a shopping chart into my page https://manchesterphotogra.wixsite.com/manchester-photos

For those not interested in php, here's a sample gallery linked to the FAA widget using JQuery and a simple JSON file to control the items displayed:

https://selanderfineart.com/faality/json_test.html

Again, I can offer more details if anyone is intrested.