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PHOTOGRAPHERS: HOSTING OPTIONS
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How you host and present your store depends on whether you want to promote your own established brand, and whether you want a free
service or pay to get your own domain hosted.
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eventpictures.com
Customers can go to the main site and search for their event. A simple search usually does the trick, but an
advanced search is also available to find events by photographer name, specific date, name, etc.
All events hosted by Eventpictures are automatically made available this way even if you choose to use
one of the more advanced hosting options below.
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Subdomain
Your account comes with a free personalized store at a custom URL within the eventpictures.com domain. Choose
a name that identifies your business, and we will host your store at http://chosenname.eventpictures.com.
Your subdomain store can be customized with your own logo and colors, and you can even override the way it looks by uploading your own store page and additional pages.
Here are some examples from current photographers:
raceshots.eventpictures.com
andresphoto.eventpictures.com
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Tag
If you have chosen a subdomain (see above), and assigned tags to your events, all events for
each tag will appear inside a custom tag store visible at yoursubdomain.eventpictures.com/tagname. This is great for creating
distinct experiences for different types of customers which is handy if you do multiple types of photography.
Each tag store can be customized just like the subdomain store. So for example if a tag represents
a team name you can customize it with the team's colors and logo, whereas a 'weddings' tag store can have a sublime look and
a 'races' tag store can look bold and dynamic.
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Your Own Domain
If you have your own web domain (e.g. johnnyspics.com) we will be happy to host it for you. All features are the same
as if using a subdomain. For example, if you had a store setup at johniespics.eventpictures.com and you signed up for
domain hosting it would then be hosted at johniespics.com. Your customized look and feel would stay the same.
Our domain hosting includes your own SSL certificate, so customers stay in your site, with the same look and feel,
throughout the whole ordering process (even when they go to the SSL-encrypted checkout pages). There is no switching
to a different domain with cookie-cutter pages when checkout is initiated.
There is a $60 annual fee for this service to cover the cost of your SSL certificate, and offset the time and effort
involved in provisioning.
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Right inside your very own website!
All pages in our store are available in a different version that has no top or left-side menus. These pages
can be pointed to in a frame or iframe at a different site.
You can use this approach If you already have a website and you would like to continue hosting it yourself,
or if you would like to add picture browsing and ordering right inside a non-photography site, such as a race,
corporate, school or organization site.
Subframe pages share the same customized colors as your subdomain store.
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Continue Tour:
Custom Look
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