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liveBooks professional is an easy, time-saving website solution that makes you look great and gets you business. Based on input from thousands of photographers liveBooks has created a product that delivers the features needed by photographers to create a web platform on which you can build your business both today and in the future.
Every liveBooks Professional package comes with:
- A Custom Professional Website
- Tools to Reach Your Audience
- Features that Build Your Business
- Visitor Tracking Tools
- Easy to Use Online Admin Tools
- A Rich Multimedia Experience
Additionally, you choose the package that meets your needs today.
The below packages determine the one-time non-recurring fee for your site.| Unlimited $3,200 The ultimate in flexibility and customization |
Select $1,700 Great customization with a few less bells and whistles |
Basic $800 A great place to get started on the web |
All liveBooks sites must also be hosted by liveBooks for an annual $90 fee. Read more about our hosting, we think you will feel it is worth the money.
Custom Design
No templates here. All packages include design time with our in-house design staff. Amount of design services vary according to package, so be sure to read about what’s included.
Your Style
Your custom design will include your fonts, colors, logo and other elements that help to create your brand.
Large High-Quality Images
Having the ability to showcase your work allows viewers to make decisions about purchasing your imagery or hiring you for the next job. We view this as being extremely important.
Intuitive Navigation
Our research shows that people will leave a site no matter how beautiful if they can not figure out quickly how to view the content. This is why we give you three types of navigation, automatic thumbnails, buttons and slideshow playback.
Automated Metadata Upload with ImagesEliminate redundant data entry with automated metadata upload. This feature supports import of image info from programs including Apple® Aperture™, Adobe® Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop® and Microsoft® iView. Once the data is uploaded you can edit it as much as you like through the image information panel within the editSuite.
Search Landing PageThis optional new HTML page can be used as a quick snapshot to capture search engine viewers and entice them to view the full website. The page enables you to customize content to target search engine traffic with specific keywords and almost all links on the page will drive visitor traffic to the Flash site.
Custom Keywords
Using the Search Engine tab in the liveBooks online admin tool, you can enter your site title, description and keywords in one location to ensure high rankings with search engines.
Enhanced Automatic HTML Creation
The liveBooks admin tool – the editSuite – automatically creates a searchable HTML site to ensure that the content on your site including your keywords, image names, image descriptions, etc are catalogued by search engines further enhancing your ability to rank high in search results.
Image Title and Description
Use this feature to display image details to site visitors by entering image title and description. Using automated metadata upload this can automatically be done for you at the time of upload. Having this information can also enhance your search rankings, as it is included in your automatically generated HTML site.
Features that Build Your Business
Shopping Cart
Using the shopping cart you can decide which portfolios as well as which images within portfolios you would like to make available for sale from your site. The shopping cart is integrated with PayPal™ and allows you to set your own price structure per image or type of work.
Downloadable PDF
Allow site visitors the ability to keep a reminder of your work with the ability to post a downloadable PDF file of your portfolio.
Printable Comp Card
Ensure that site visitors have a way to remember you and your work with a printable comp card which includes your contact information and your work.
Webstats
Monitor the traffic to your site with live Webstats or request integration with your own Google™ Analytics account. Either way you will always know whether your latest promotion was successful in getting people to view your site.
Google™ AnalyticsNow you can track site visitor traffic at a page-by-page level using Google Analytics. With support for page-by-page tracking, you can measure which parts of your site are receiving the most traffic, and gauge the success of your marketing efforts.
Webstats
Monitor the traffic to your site with live Webstats or request integration with your own Google™ Analytics account. Either way you will always know whether your latest promotion was successful in getting people to view your site.
Easy-to-Use Online Admin Tools – the editSuite
Single or Bulk Image Upload
Easily select single images or complete folders from anywhere on your computer for upload to your site.
Resize on Upload
In a pinch select the resize on upload button to ensure that your images are sized appropriately for quick display on the web. We recommend you follow our detailed image preparation instructions using a professional image application such as Adobe® Photoshop™, Lightroom™ or Apple® Aperture™ for optimal results.
Drag-and-Drop Portfolio Creation
Easily drag-and-drop images to create portfolios and to edit portfolios as often as you like. Also includes ability to pair vertical images within the lightBox giving you the flexibility to change your pairings on the fly.
Custom Menu Naming
Maintain control of all the menu names and pages on your site. Each menu item you create can be either a page on your site or a link to an external location. This gives you the flexibility to determine whether you want everything within this site or whether you want to use this site to pull together various services that you use such as a blog, a proofing sales site, an online archive, etc.
Uploadable Pages
Continually maintain control of the content on your site with the ability to upload your own individual pages at any time. The Unlimited and Select packages include page design for various pages by the in-house liveBooks design team (see feature list for number of pages). Any pages that we design for you will be saved as “master” pages so you always have a safety net to fall back to should you be unhappy with the changes you make.
Custom Styling
Use the editSuite to further customize your site by controlling individual elements of your site such as the selection of colors and loading images, as well as setting image transition and menu animation effects.
Music/Audio
Upload your music/audio files to enhance the mood of your site. Using the online editSuite you can assign different music to each page and each portfolio of your site.
Multimedia Upload
Further enhance the emotional connection visitors obtain from visiting your site by incorporating video. With Multimedia upload you can add a menu item to your site that contains videos, slideshows, PDF files, HTML galleries, etc. You control the naming of this menu item, the order of the content and the upload of all content.
Portfolio Slideshow Playback
Decide whether you want your images to automatically play back in slideshow mode to minimize the work by your visitors or to wait for people to advance on their own. You can make this choice on a portfolio by portfolio basis and no matter what you do the visitor can always change what is happening so it is a win:win for you and your visitors.
Make a choice from the below packages to finalize your feature set and pricing.
| Unlimited | Select | Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| non-recurring one-time fee hosting annual fee |
$3,200 $90 |
$1,700 $90 |
$800 $90 |
| image size and thumbail design | choice of 920 x 562 with hide-reveal thumbnails or 750 x 500 with persistent thumbnails |
750 x 500 with persistent thumbnails | |
| number of portfolios | virtually unlimited | 4 | 1 |
| number of portfolio images/pages | up to 64 images across 32 pages per portfolio | ||
| additional menu pages | virtually unlimited | 2 | 1 |
| additional external links | virtually unlimited | 1 | $95 |
| password protected client areas | virtually unlimited | 5 passwords | starting at $495 |
| hosted by liveBooks on your URL | √ | ||
| email addresses included | 5 | ||
| website traffic and connection | virtually unlimited | ||
| email storage space | 50 MB/address | ||
| website storage space | 3 GB | 2 GB | 1 GB |