Customizing The Collection Page

Not sure I have understood your question correctly, but if you are referring to the customisation of your Pixels homepage, this thread might be what you are looking for:

https://fineartamerica.com/showmessages.php?messageid=4659521

Customisation of other pages is not possible (as far as I am aware).

I'm sorry Paul, I have no idea what this means either, I'm sorry

Here is you page, Paul. To see your collections you can click on Collections at the top of the page under the header. That collections page CANNOT be customized! On the home page your collections are shown as a grid but you can change that to just a single logo for all your collections.

https://paul-w-faust.pixels.com/

People have different slides, so that will look different for everyone. You can change the order on the homepage and choose not to have the slides, change the order of the collections, bio and images, etc. If you think yours looks different then so what? The nice thing is you really don't have to do anything and it's good to go.

You can't change the background color at all. White is the only color. And you cannot customize other pages, but then you never could do that with Version 1 either.

Log in to your site, then edit website appearance. Then you will see where you can customize. You just have to look around and click on things to see how they work. Just get familiar with things and find you way around.

This is what you will see:

Jessica - - Thanks - as usual !
When I said to you before (FB) I was comparing my FAA collections page with what I now see is your Pixels page.
I was thinking that they would both be the same. Not so I guess. Your page has the prices under each image.
That's what I wanted mine to look like and I see that mine does - in the Pixels site.
I am now guessing that you do all of your customizing in Pixels alone.
I have always been working in FAA. That's where I place my new images in and I never even go in to Pixels.
- - - Am I doing this backwards? - - which would not be anything new.
Can't the FAA collection page be made to look like the one Pixels has?
It makes NO sense to me that they do not link to look the same.

My main problem is that I almost never promote my images other than showing them on FB,
so I have never gotten into the setting up/customizing anything on here.
So I don't know where to do it or even find where it's done,
and this site does not make things easy to find or understand.
They can't even give us a simple INDEX to go to places from.

It would be nice if I had the time to get back on here more often and look around - - I don't.

Also, when you say log into my site - are you talking about the Pixels one ?
As I said, I always work in FAA. Not Pixels.

Thanks Jess !

Paul to customize the premium site you have to sign into your premium site/artist website. Can't do that from FAA.

As I said - I have only ever worked from FAA and I didn't even know I had a "premium" artists site.
Are we talking about our galleries on Pixels- as that premium site? - - Never heard it called that.

I was always under the impression that they were totally linked together.
What you added and changed on one showed up in the other site.
So now I am getting the feeling that you can totally customize Pixels but not FAA pages.
We have to work them as separate sites.

Did you not bother to read what you were paying for when you purchased the premium site?

https://paul-w-faust.pixels.com/

AGAIN, as I said more than once, I never do anything in any place other than FAA and I don't even remember purchasing any premium site, and I sure don't remember paying for one if I did. I pay $30 a year for an FAA gallery. That's all I know about paying for.

And you could try to be a bit less rude considering you are supposed to be helping us, not insulting the members.
which isn't the first time I have gotten this attitude from you.

I do nothing on this site but add images to sell and I do not follow how things operate. I do not have the time.
What I might have done years ago has gotten lost in time and if I ask questions
it is because I need the help - not the BS.

I just went to behind the scenes and found out that the $30 a years IS for a premium site.
I had remembered it as being for the FAA membership itself. Not any extras,
but that was so many years ago I don't sit here keeping track of what was done that long ago.
So, now I'll go in there and probably just work only from the Pixels gallery.
That should fix that much of my needs.
- - After I learn the differences between them - -

The big difference is that your premium is yours ONLY! A visitor coming through FAA can visit your account and then go to other members. You should be marketing your premium site.

Paul, I understand your confusion.

FAA and Pixels are mirrors of each other. When you make a change on one, it happens on the other. You have an FAA profile and a Pixels profile, and they are the same thing.

Pixels is not your premium site. Your premium site is a third site, which is usually Your name-pixels.com. I was confused when I began here as well. Basically, it is still a mirror of Pixels and FAA, and anything you upload on either FAA or Pixels will still appear automatically on your Premium Website, but it is not a profile - it is it's own standalone website and is designed for you to share links from there so people who visit your work don't get lured off to other people's works. The FAA and Pixels profiles are not standalones; anyone visitng those can easily access someone else's profile when browsing. With your Premium Website, they see your work only.

I will find the links to all three for you:

Your FAA profile: https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/paul-w-faust.html
Your Pixels profile: https://pixels.com/profiles/paul-w-faust.html
Your Premium website: https://paul-w-faust.pixels.com/

I hope this helps.

Jessica - thanks.
I see that everything I do from now on I need to do in Pixels.
It seems to have more and whatever I do in there ends up in FAA anyway, so am now changing my procedures.
I now see that you were referring to one site "Pixels" and I have been talking about my FAA pages.


from Chance's post - - -
OK, now I'm totally fucked up. I have a third site I never even knew about and features I knew nothing about.
I really like the news that I can keep people IN my premium site only.
More things that is next to impossible to learn about when you join this - or even ears later -
unless you want to spend months going through the whole site looking up things - - but - -
"You don't know what you don't know" as they say.
So how are you supposed to learn "What you don't know" ?

I like FAA but it really is lacking when it comes to information and how to find it.
That has always been my major problem here. Finding answers, and learning what I need to know to make it all work for me.

One last thing - among many - I don't understand.

What is the point of a profile page/site ?
My Pixel profile page has the same things in it that my Pixel Premium site has.
What's the point of two of the same thing?

Any and all other sites I belong to, the profile is a "part" of the member's main site.
It is not a whole 2nd dupe site of the main one.
My FAA site has my profile "in" it, not another site "for" it.

So if my premium site keeps buyers in it, "WHAT" does the profile site do that is so special that it needs its own site to do ?
What am I supposed to be doing in it that I can't do in the main premium site ?

When you upload images you can only do it from your FAA or Pixels Profile (doesn't matter which since they are mirrors of eachother). You can also only like and comment on other people's works via either of those profiles. And post on discussions etc. You can also only edit the order of images and the order of your collections from these profiles.

On your Premium Website, you can still edit individual images, and you can also customize the site a bit by going to "behind the scenes --> "website appearance." There is a thread somewhere with how to's but I could not find it. I was able to customize mine by playing with the settings. Your premium website will still work without customization.

The point of having a profile is because FAA/Pixels is an online art marketplace, like Amazon. So while you want to advertise your Premium Website (to keep people in) there are still shoppers who come to FAA/Pixels and search for stuff, and there is a chance they will find something and buy it that way.

I actually suck at advertising, and look carefully at analytics for my premium website, and even though it's often hard to tell, I suspect a majority of my own sales have come from people going to FAA/Pixels and finding one of my works by searching, not by me advertising my premium website. Not that I'm a sales whiz to begin with.

Hope this makes sense. I know it can be a lot to take in. I have learned a lot by reading the forum and trial and error, but I still don't know everything there is to know myself. Others here are probably more knowledgable than me. Hang in there.

Oh and FAA and Pixels are almost the same thing but with slight differences to my understating. FAA is geared more toward wall art (prints) and home decor (pillows etc). Pixels actually shows all products one can list for sale (t-shirts, battery chargers, etc, in addition to wall art). Pixels was also built to cater to the international market since "Fine Art America" sounds like it's an American store only. I think Pixels will eventually be the main site but I'm not entirely sure. Again, anything you do on one of the profiles automatically happens on the other. I always work out of the FAA one.

I think I found what I needed. "Surprised me also.

The Pixels Profile page is for adding and working on the images.
The Pixels page is where they are sold,
and the FAA page does both in one site.

Am I getting close ?

Thanks All for your time - I now have what I needed.

I will close this in a week if anyone wants to add more before than.

I'm done.

Pixels/FAA do the same thing - you can work out of both, upload from both, and a sale counts the same from all 3. For what you work out of, it's a matter of preference. I simply work out of FAA because I participate in some threads that use FAA links.

Edit - I was trying that as you posted your last post in response to the one prior

Chance, you can upload on the premium site. Look on the images page, at the bottom.

Free members don't get a premium site so they would market from Pixels.com site where all products are.

Paul, all the info you need is in the sticky posts at the top of the forum.