PhotoBiz is excited to pick our Full Screen Collection and travel to the beautiful city of Pamplona Spain.  This template brings our trip to Spain to a close as it is built off of the same concept structure as Madrid and Barcelona.  Let’s break down the features of our new Pamplona template to see what is carried over and what is unique. 

What’s Unique?

The overall layout of Pamplona is very minimalistic.  With clean lines and thin boarders that color shift to coordinate with the image, you will love the way that your images are presented.

Within the gallery, you will notice that the thumbnails are shown at the bottom just below your navigation bar and image.  Arrows to the left and right of the image, coupled with the thumbnails placed directly below the navigation bar, will give the user better control of the image speed and a more pleasant viewing experience.

To round things out; the unique transitions, animation, and loader symbol bring an interesting dynamic to your website.  As you control the other customizable features like backgrounds, colors, music, transition speed, and size of your images; your new Pamplona website will be brought to life! 

What’s carried over from Barcelona and Madrid?

You will notice a “banner like” layout that displays your large (re-sizable) image, framed with the unique PhotoBiz color shifting ability.  The incredibly unique “re-sizable” layout allows your layout to always stretch across the viewers monitor and simply add more space to the top and bottom of your website.  This border will be added to only the top and bottom and will allow you to choose any color or background image to be displayed.  This is a very unique feature that is different from all of the other PhotoBiz templates!

The NEW navigation bar is built with the roll-over capabilities so that you do not need to click on it to pull up the drop down navigation bars.  In the image below, you will notice it displays “The Photographer”, “Unique Features”, & “Our Products”.  As you simply hover your mouse over “Information”, this drop down menu appears.  Less clicking = Less confusion!

The logo placement can be anywhere across the top in Madrid.  If you would like it on the left, right, or center; that’s not problem.  You can make these changes with a click of the mouse.  The logo is placed just off of and above your image to emphasize the main focus, your images! 

What else is included with the Full Screen Collection?

As this series is a part of the larger “Full Screen” collection, let’s look at some of its other fully customizable attributes:

• Complete Color Customization
• Best SEO in the Industry
• Custom Background Upload
• Re-sizable Image Frames
• 32 Changeable Fonts and Styles
• Unlimited Galleries
• Full List of Features!

The Best SEO in the Industry is of course included for FREE! This includes page specific Meta Tags, deep linking URL’s, Automatic XML site mapping, an HTML Splash Page, an automatic HTML mirror site (One-time $45 fee) and unlimited free access to SEO specialists here on the PhotoBiz team. 

All of the images in this template are provided by
Kimberly Kay

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Exhibit Dates:

Monday, March 8 – Wednesday, March 10, 2010

 Location:

MGM Conference Center • Las Vegas, NV

 Trade Show Hours:

Monday & Tuesday: 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday: 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

PhotoBiz is going to be located at booth #1212 in the MGM Grand Hotel Conference Center.  With such a large exhibitor hall, we thought that we should make it a little easier for you to find us, so here is a little map to help you out.

“Door Buster Special”

Due to the enthusiastic response PhotoBiz will once again offer the “Door Buster Special” at the Las Vegas WPPI trade show. This offer is only available to the visitors of booth #1212 between 10:00 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. or to the first 100 sign-ups. A total website package consisting of a Flash site, HTML mirror site and a Mobile mirror site will be offered for ONLY $95! (Regular $390)

Already a PhotoBiz Customer?

Come make some money!  Not only are we going to have some absolutely incredible specials for your friends, but you can WIN two different ways:

• Bring a friend by the booth that signs up, and you will get a $20 check per sign-up!
• Bring three (3) friends that sign up and you will win a FREE IPOD TOUCH!

*Referrals must remain active clients for 45 days as our terms of use states.

What’s NEW?

PhotoBiz will be introducing three new templates, a new mobile website, a new chat function and the powerful new Client Viewing feature.

New Websites:  From the inception of the company PhotoBiz has been a industry leading developer of website templates for photographers. We will be introducing three new Full Screen Templates:  Pamplona, San Francisco and Charleston. All will be full screen templates with color shifting capability; custom background ability, and all utilize the cloud computing technology in which PhotoBiz is the only Flash Template company offering.

Mobile Site:  PhotoBiz has introduced a brand new mobile website that will customize your flash websites to fit the new iPhone.  As iPhone’s are becoming more popular worldwide, PhotoBiz is innovating the industry and accommodating your developing business needs.

• Low set up fees ($25 one-time fee)
• No monthly fees. 
• They build and maintain themselves as you build and maintain your PhotoBiz Flash site.

Client Viewing:  This is a powerful new proofing tool that has been developed to complement and expand our online proofing and shopping cart features. This high impact presentation system is extremely customizable with multi lingual, complete color customization, font styles & sizes, transitions styles & speeds, AND MUCH MORE. This has the potential to be one of our customer’s favorite selling tools.

Smart Light Box:  Embed just about anything you can imagine into the PhotoBiz websites!  Chat, video, blog, Facebook, Twitter; you name it and we can probably help you get it on your PhotoBiz website with introduction of the PhotoBiz “Smart Light Box”!

This article will walk you through creating a badge for your Twitter account.

Login to yourTwitter account.Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the screen and click on Goodies.

Next, click on Widgets.

On the Left side of the screen, click on My Website.

Now click on Profile Widget.

In the box, type in your Username.  The Username is what appears after www.twitter.com/username. Then click on Test Settings.

On the left side, click on Preferences to edit your settings.

Next, on the left side, click on Appearance to edit the colors of the badge.  Click on the color box to open a color picker.

Last, click on Dimensions.  You will want to leave the default settings for this section.

To retreive the embed code, click on Finish & Grab Code.  Highlight and copy the code.

In your PhotoBiz control panel, click on the External Link. 

Under the Page Settings you can change the name of the link as it shows in the navigation. 

Under the URL settings, choose Embedded Link beside Link Type. 

Paste the code from Twitter into the Embedded Content area. 

You can enter in a Link Caption.

To ensure the badge fits properly, set the Width as 250 and the Height to 387.

*Last, click on Update.  We recommend previewing the site before Publishing so you can view the changes.

PhotoBiz is so excited to announce the release of a one of a kind new feature that will blow you away!  This feature cannot be done with any other template system in our industry.  In fact, if you want to do something like what we are doing, it would require extensive coding knowledge and quite a bit of money!

What does it look like?

Our new light box is a beautiful overlay on top of your PhotoBiz website.  As it displays right on top of your website, users can tell that they have not left your site and they can still see your moving photos transition in an opaque view throughout the background.

What can it do?

What can’t you do is probably a better question.  You can have absolutely any link, video, website, contact form, social network, slideshow, or anything else online imaginable, appear directly on your website!  This feature is available under ANY menu item with your PhotoBiz Flash and/or HTML website!

Are you on Facebook?  Instead of just a link to your page, how would you like to bring Facebook to your Website?

Do you Blog? How powerful would it be if your customers can view and interact on your blog while they are still on your website?

A simple link to Twitter is never enough!  Your customers want to know what you are doing!  Bring the power of your twitter updates directly to your website with a number of Twitter widgets!

Do you use any studio management software?  How would you like to harness the contact management system directly on your PhotoBiz Website!

How would you like to have a completely customizable calendar embedded on your website?  Google has a great option for you but literally any web based calendar system that you use can now be brought to your PhotoBiz website!

What about a Chat function that allows your customers to chat with you while they are on your website?  With many embeddable chat features out there, your customers can initiate a chat directly on your website!  Using any smart phone, you can be mobile and keep in contact with you prospective clients.

Please don’t let our very brief ideas here restrict your creativity!  There are virtually unlimited options at your disposal with the new PhotoBiz “Smart Light Box”!  Try it out for yourself and leave a link back here with how you intend to use it!

How Customizable is it?

You are given complete control over the size of this “Smart Light Box”.  Simply insert the size you would like it to appear and it will automatically be centered over your website.  If the color customization is something you are worried about, there’s nothing to worry about with PhotoBiz!  All of the colors that you see on this embedded page can be 100% customized with our enhanced color picker!  Further customization includes a new roll-over caption feature is enabled on each embedded content page so that you can give a little bit more information to your viewers.  Colors and fonts choices again come in abundance.  Lastly, you can choose to disable background music from your website or not.  PhotoBiz is the King in giving you fully customizable features!

Where do I begin?

Now that you are excited to start using it, remember that as a PhotoBiz customer; there are no upgrade fees are hassles to add this feature.  As PhotoBiz is the only web template company that is truly cloud computing, this feature is already enabled in your web based drag and drop control panel and ready to use.  Here are some screen shot to point you in the right direction.

Step 1 is to add an External link in the “Web Pages” section of your control panel.

Step 2 This External Link is added to the bottom left.  Simply click on it to start your customizations.

OR

***There is a known Security measure in place with using the Facebook Page (Not Widget or Fan Badge) and Twitter Pages (Not Widgets) that may prevent optimal use of this feaure.  We are recommending that you use the Facebook Fan Badge and Twitter Widgets for best results.***

So a quick trip to Madrid and we’re off to Barcelona!  This is sure to be a crowd favorite with some of the unique design concepts that are being captured from this beautiful Spanish city.  The Barcelona template’s layout is based off of the same layout structure as Madrid with a “banner-like” frame that stretches from end to end of your monitor.  Working off of this NEW layout that is inspired by Spain, let us show you what is unique about Barcelona!

The most unique feature that you will notice is the frame that surrounds each image to the left and right.  If you have a large panoramic image that stretches from end to end, you will notice this frame stretch with it.  This is great for photographers that would like to use both portrait and landscape layout images.

Additionally regarding the layout of the Spanish inspired templates, is how the re-sizable template feature is used.  Usually, when you add “border padding” to a template, it will re-size the entire template down and add a border around the outside.  This border can display and color or background that you would like.  However, with both Madrid and Barcelona, the sides do not add this border.  Only the top and bottom will add this “border padding” to keep the image and color shifting frame consistent with an end to end look.

Another unique feature that you will notice about Barcelona is the round frames that hold the thumbnails on the left of the website.  As Madrid incorporated a square frame here, we wanted to give a slightly different look.

Lastly, utilizing the unique color shifting capabilities that we used with Milan, you will notice that the navigation bar is placed at the bottom as well and color shifts as well.  This NEW navigation bar is built with the roll-over capabilities so that you do not need to click on it to pull up the drop down navigation bars.  Some people are concerned with a navigation bar being located at the bottom, however, there is no need to worry with PhotoBiz.  Our Templates automatically re-size to fit each viewer’s monitor.  Whether you are looking at your website from a 6″ screen or a 36″ screen, your image and entire website will recognize this and adjust appropriately!  This way your navigation bar will ALWAYS display.

Another great feature with this series of templates is the fact that the logo can be placed on the left OR the right. With just 1 click, you decide. As this series is a part of the larger “Full Screen” collection, lets look at some of its other fully customizable attributes:

• Complete Color Customization
• Best SEO in the Industry
• Custom Background Upload
• Re-sizable Image Frames
• 32 Changeable Fonts and Styles
• Unlimited Galleries

The Best SEO in the Industry is of course included for FREE! This includes page specific Meta Tags, deep linking URL’s, Automatic XML site mapping, an HTML Splash Page, an automatic HTML mirror site (One-time $45 fee) and unlimited free access to SEO specialists here on the PhotoBiz team.

All of the images in this template are provided by:

Loren Callahan with Alante Photography

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