ImageEvent makes it easy to share albums with friends and family. Your friends and family do not need an ImageEvent account to access the photos. There are 4 ways to share your photo albums.
- Send an email of your photo album
- Invite friends and family
- Seamlessly add photo album into your website
- Send your own email using the URL.
Email your photo album sends an email to your friends and family. There are many benefits. With sending an invitation to visit your website, you aren't sure if your friends will see the photo album - but with emailing you know your friends will see the album as there is no link to click to visit. Each email is an html email and very small in size - only about 10k. It is quick to download as thumbnails are loaded from the ImageEvent Web Site when the email is opened.
It does work with all html and text based email programs. It works with online providers such as Yahoo Mail and GMail, as well as email programs as Outlook and Thunderbird
To send and email to your friends and family:
- Click on button on Album Bar "Email Album" or click on footer "Email Album" in the album.
- Enter the email addresses of one or more guests:
- Type in the email address, and separate each address with a comma, space, or return, OR
- Select the recipients in your address book. If you need to add recipients go to your addressbook.
- Select to BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) the recipients.
- Enter your name and email for the "From" field.
- Enter Subject and include a personal message.
- Preview your email on how it will be shown
- When ready click, "Email Album" and your emails will be sent.
All email addresses entered will be automatically entered in your addressbook so it is convenient to pick and choose addresses on subsequent invitations. It is a good idea to include yourself in the email.
Make sure you personalized and added the descriptions to the images before you send it. The guestbook and top bar navigation is not sent in the email.
To send invitations with friends and family to visit the album on the website.:
- Click on button on Album Bar "Invite My Friends" or click on footer "Send Invitation" in the album.
- Enter the email addresses of one or more guests:
- Type in the email address, and separate each address with a comma, space, or return, OR
- Select the recipients in your address book. If you need to add recipients go to your addressbook.
- Enter your name and email for the "From" field.
- Enter Subject and include a personal message.
- When ready click "Send Invitation" and your emails will be sent.
All email addresses entered will be automatically entered in your addressbook so it is convenient to pick and choose addresses on subsequent invitations. It is a good idea to include yourself in the invitation list to see what your invitation will look like.
Add photo album directly into your website, easily:
Add any or all your photo albums to your website. Just copy 1 line of HTML from ImageEvent and your photo album will be displayed in your webpage. The ImageEvent logo, header and footer are not displayed giving you the look, navigation and feel you want with the hosting from ImageEvent. It's so easy to do-- you'll be amazed! See the examples when you log in. All you have to do is add one line of HTML to your webpage. This process is similar to the way you would update text on your webpage.
Adding your photo album to your website uses only Javascript and HTML. That means it will work with practically all browsers. No download of applets or plugins are required. It's easy to do. Try it now and send us your feedback.
Make sure you have a webpage that you can edit or create a new one. It's best to use an editor that will you to preview. To add the photo album into your webpage do the following:
- Click on button on Home page "Add to Website".
- Highlight by selecting with mouse (or press Control-A) from the box.
- Copy (Control-c) and Paste (Control-v) the HTML from the box to the file.
Due to some limitations on message boards to prevent spam-- javascript may not be allowed. It will work on all pages that you own or have access to.
The URL to your album provides a convenient way for you to share with your friends and family without sending an invitation through ImageEvent. The URL is created at time of creating the album and once made it cannot be changed. The only way to change the URL is to create a new album, then move all your images to the new album. Once done, you can delete this album with the incorrect URL.
Having a direct URL to your album has the convenience of:
- Make flyers on your home printer to tell friends and family the URL before or when you are at your event.
- Easily include URL in your own invitation, without using ImageEvent's
- Put the URL in your personal webpages.
- Share URL word of mouth.
If you have a guest password to your album, you can include that in the URL. Your guests will not be required to enter a guest password to get to your album.
- Append the following to the URL: "?pa=<GUESTPASSWORD>"
For example if your username is "smithfamily", your album URL is "familyreunion" and guest password to album is "family", your URL will be: https://imageevent.com/smithfamily/familyreunion?pa=family
It is also possible to include the guest password to your Home page the same way.
If more than one album has a guest password, it may be a good idea to use the same exact guest password value. Guests will only have to enter the guest password once to go to one album-- when viewing other albums it is not needed to enter the same guest password value again.
Your ImageEvent addressbook contains your email addresses used to send invitations to your friends and family. You can add, edit, and delete contacts to your addressbook. To access your addressbook:
- Log in to your account
- Click "Account, Billing & Address Book"
- Click on Address Book
To add a contact click on "Add Contact"
To Edit and view a contact click on email address
To delete a contact or multiple-- select the checkboxes and click on "Delete Selected"
Your addressbook listing shows the email address, first name, last name, work phone, home phone and cell phone. You can view all the fields by clicking the email of the user you wish to view.
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