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I like the composition of this piece, it has a cool balance.

Welcome to Fine Art America Eric, your gallery is very nice and compositions and the Old Shack a favorite. To answer your question, speak with Abbie and if your domain name is Eric Brown Photography, perhaps when you created your account here at Fine Art America something changed.....what ever the name of your account is here this is the name of your artistwebsite. unless you want specifically want something different, I do recall when I first joined something had happened to my artistwebsite or I preferred a business name, and it was corrected.... It seems that can be corrected.

Also something else you might want to consider the images you upload here your name on the front of the photo may not go over so well with potential buyers. Signature on a oil painting yes, a printed artist name on a beautiful photo no, a print with signed title and name on the matt yes..... When something is purchased a sticker of the title of the work and artist name a label is affixed to the back. Example: A lease agreement to use your photo as a book cover jacket, more than likely you name will not be printed on the front cover with your name printed on the photo. Of course you will get credit but in most cases your name will not appear on the actually photograph on the jacket cover but elsewhere with the necessary photo credits. Photo by .....IIt's pretty much a preference of the artist and photographer how they like there images to appear on the inner-net, IMO, not certain if you were aware of that.

You may think about that, you might not want your name plastered all over the front of a piece of your fine Fine Art Photography, work uploaded to any site on the inner net is protected, and the water mark used by Fine Art America is not printed on the work. If you upload the FAA watermark, once you do there is no toggle switch to remove it. The point being if any cyber thief wants your photo, name or no name they will steal it, might not be the raw image but they will. You can always keep track with google reverse search of anything you upload.....



Cheers, Michael Hoard Actor, Artist and Photographer.

Eric - you need to edit the website address here on FAA/Pixels to reflect your new domain name. There's nothing that automatically updates it when you choose to use a custom domain name.

Go to "Behind the Scenes" - when you get to your control panel, scroll down until you see "contact information" which is underneath the large heading of Public Profile.

Once you've clicked that option, you'll be taken to another page where you'll see your address information but you'll also see an entry for website. Right now, it has your Artist Website address, but you can change it to your new domain name or really any address you'd like.

Hope that helps,

Mark
tisdaleart.com

PS LOL - figures that when the answer comes, it comes in twos. Hi Abbie! ;-)

Visit website Is put in by yourself, behind the scenes / CONTACT INFORMATION.

Ha! Thanks Mark...posting together

Abbie, is this a new feature for us here at Fine Art America. I do recall when I became a member this was something we could not do but the office. I just noticed when I went behind the scenes, who removed my address information, how did that get removed from my account. Thanks Abbie and Mark, I went back in and posted I went in and updated my information.

Abbie, since we have no clue what his domain name is, at the moment you have to type in the letter 3-eric-brown.artistwebsites.

This has been here since the start

You put in your website address

You need more inventory. Its like opening a store with bare shelves.

The worse thing is they have a target="_blank" on the Visit Website link, which opens up in a new window or tab.

Oh my gosh, Thank you Abbie and Mark! Got my private domain linked to FAA now :-)

Silly me. I never paid attention to that either. Just changed mine to my Joe the Photog domain. Thanks, folks.

Okay, in contact information I changed my website to www.davidkingstudio.com but when I type my domain in the address bar and go to the website the address bar still changes to www.11-david-king.artistwebsites.com once the website comes up. Am I doing something wrong or am I misunderstanding what this discussion is about? I have cleared my internet history.

David;

I just clicked on your Visit Website link on your FAA page and it took me to www.davidkingstudio.com which is the important thing.

Glad the info about updating the website addy was helpful. :-)

@David - at some point in the past you set up to forward your own domain name to your existing AW address. That can be changed now so that visitors see your website URL while they surf your AW but explaining it is involved... Abbie has a tutorial here that hopefully should get you rolling:

http://1stangel.co.uk/fineartamerica/2014/10/25/custom-domains-artist-website/

I'm fairly sure you also need to cancel the forward when you're setting up the custom domain name, otherwise you'll run into a conflict between the custom domain name set-up and the forward.

Mark
tisdaleart.com

Thanks Mark, Joseph. Apparently I misunderstood what the thread was about. I'll have to get on to GoDaddy and see if I can make it work from there. Re-reading the OP for the 3rd time it finally go through my thick skull.

David, Do you already have your new domain name?

Yes, I registered it with GoDaddy more than two years ago. I think the link Mark gave will show me how to make it show up in the browser address bar.