Aug 13, 2010 – PRESS RELEASE – Pixpa is designed by experts to present your work in a clean, crisp, user-friendly professional website. The websites are built to the specifications of creative professionals keeping in mind that every photographer, artist or designer has their own unique style and distinct body of work. The wide range of pre-designed templates on offer by Pixpa are focused on showcasing your work. The designs are unobtrusive and intuitive and present large high quality images in a clean and clutter-free environment. At any point of time if you feel like changing the design template, Pixpa gives you the option to do so in a seamless manner.
The easy to use three way navigation system – view next / previous controls, thumbnail based gallery view and slideshow view enables visitors to your site to browse your portfolio galleries in a flawless manner.
All Pixpa websites are fully loaded with powerful and relevant features like a very flexible and expandable menu structure that enables to create unlimited image/video galleries, editable information pages and external links for your site. You can also create password protected galleries for client access, a home page slideshow of up to 5 images that best represent your work and make the perfect first impression. Your Pixpa portfolio website also comes with a Guest Book for visitors’ feedback, full integration with Google Analytics, a Search Engine friendly HTML mirror site for SEO and I-Phone compatible mirror site.
Your Pixpa portfolio website will work with your own personalized domain name. In case you haven’t booked a domain name yet, don’t fret, for Pixpa can register a domain on your behalf. All Pixpa websites are hosted on state-of-the art hosting infrastructure to ensure reliable delivery of your website to potential clients. So with hosting, site maintenance, renewals, upgrades, security and everything else taken care of, all you need to focus on is showcasing your portfolio.
A zero-hassles fully-managed website with such great features, I certainly am impressed. Aren’t you?
Take a free 15 days trial
So how does one go about making a Pixpa Portfolio website? It’s simple. Just log in to www.pixpa.com and sign up for the 15 day free trial. You can select a design template for your website. Choose from a wide array of designs and remember you can always change your site design on-the-fly for your portfolio website.
There you have it! Your very own Portfolio Website. Try it out for 15 days and then you can subscribe to any Pixpa plan that fits your requirements.
Manage your site’s content
Every Pixpa website comes with an easy to use 24/7 control panel called EasyStudio that lets you control and manage the content of your site anywhere, anytime…This simple yet powerful online control panel helps you create portfolio galleries, upload and manage images, drag and drop images to change their sequence, create internal pages (like contact, bio) and external links in your sites navigation structure, create password-protected galleries for client access and so much more. You can generate custom thumbnails; assign titles and descriptions to your images.
You can create unlimited external links in your site’s menu to connect with other websites – your social media profiles, stock photo selling websites, your blog or with sites that you like and want to share with your site visitors.
With intensive focus on delivering lightening fast loading times, image buffering and a host of other technical innovations, Pixpa delivers a seamless and rich user experience for your portfolio website.
Share and embed your portfolio galleries
The Pixpa team is constantly working on adding new features and functionalities. Here’s the latest one –Pixpa portfolio website users can now publish and share their portfolio galleries anywhere on the web-which I believe is a great step forward. Pixpa users can now embed their photo galleries directly on their Facebook wall, any website or blog or a number of social networks as a beautiful, interactive slideshow with full navigation controls. Users can publish single or multiple galleries by simply selecting galleries in EasyStudio. Click here to see this in action – http://www.pixpa.com/share-and-publish
The interactive slideshow is branded with the user’s identity and links to a full screen photo gallery slideshow on the user’s portfolio website. Pixpa users can also use this feature to share specific galleries as stand-alone slideshows with clients.
Gurpreet Singh, CEO, Pixpa says – “We feel that the ability to share and publish work across the web is a very important tool for any photographer, artist or designer to reach out to a distributed audience online. Creative professionals can now take their work to their audience, rather than wait for people to visit their website. The embeddable slideshows also are a great tool for driving traffic to one’s portfolio website by sharing selected works”.
Another feature coming up in the next upgrade is the Client Micro-sites which enables you to create password protected micro-sites that you can share with your clients. The Client Micro-sites can have unlimited galleries, information pages and external links that enable you to service your clients and deliver your work to them securely and elegantly. Password-protected client micro-sites are not visible to normal site visitors and are not part of your site navigation structure hence keeping your portfolio website focused on showcasing only the images that you want.
Loved by Creative Pros around the world
Pixpa has been the chosen Professional Portfolio website solution by an eclectic range of creative professionals – from an art gallery (www.impulsearts.in) to fashion photographers (www.amitworks.com), photo journalists (www.renaudphilippe.com), advertising photographers (www.dineshkhanna.com), wedding photographers (www.mecophotography.com) and hair stylists ( www.richardkavanaghwork.com) to name a few.
With all this and lots more coming, the Pixpa team is surely headed in the right direction. Here’s what some of professionals in the industry have to say about Pixpa:
“PIXPA portfolio website was a unique trouble free solution because of its simple and clutter free front-end a very technically solid and stable back end. I was quite harrowed by so called web designers and their whims. After a couple of websites full of glitches and literally no backend support, Pixpa was peace of mind, right from the word go. It is ideal to present my work as it optimizes screen space without compromising on browsing speed. Also, I could easily customize the design according to my style of work. Hoping to see more new developments from the Pixpa team…” by Amit Sharma- www.amitworks.com.
Pricing Plans:
So what is the pricing structure like for Pixpa websites? Pixpa offers three packages – Basic , priced at $15 monthly fees or $150 yearly; Pro which is priced at $20 monthly fees or $200 yearly and Plus which costs $25 monthly fees or $250 yearly. The yearly plans have a lot more takers since they are very cost-effective.
Having a portfolio website that presents your work in a professional manner is a must today for any creative professional. Pixpa offers zero-hassles, great-looking online presence with a choice of several designs that make your work stand out. You can also opt to customize your website to personalize it even more. The Pixpa team is always available to support you. Check out examples of Pixpa websites.
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