Newbie With Questions...

Welcome aboard!

You can open as many accounts as you want, but there is a very big advantage to having only one.

Not sure how they can be totally not related buy yet fit on an art site.

As for other sites, let's not talk about FAA competitors, that is not polite and it is against the rules. It is kind of like standing in the showroom at Ford and asking the people shopping Fords what they think of the new Chevrolet.

Thanks for the response. What is the advantage to having only one?

Sorry, I didn't realize posting my bad experience with another company was against the rules :)

Basically I have two websites.

One is a tourism website. (I want to sell Prints (photographs) of the area, along with shirts with logos on them).

One is a children's cartoon. (Which I want sell products with the logo and characters on them.

Both very different and would prefer to keep them separate. Although it's not as important to keep them separate from my name, I would prefer to promote the store pages as the name of the website, rather than promoting my name.

Advantage of one account - cost savings and wider net.

Disadvantage - too much stuff to wade through.

You can have as many galleries under one account as you like.

the main disadvantage is based on how the search works. the more you sell the higher you are. if you sell well in one store, and not the other, the other store may not be seen. you still have to advertise both stores which is much harder. one image may advertise the entire store. but with two you have twice the work.

further if you want to upload more than 25 things, you have to pay for 2 stores.

i have one. customers are not confused. there is no reason to make them into two different stores. its not like you have political party stores where you don't want it to mix.

i never got the clothes here. the shirts have a mix of reactions, others like the bags and duvets.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

I've just been browsing other artists. I'm guessing under 1 account, there is no way to organize the Shop into different categories?

For example; Under my account, if I go to galleries and create two ("website 1" and "website 2") and then went to my "Shop", it would show products from both galleries "website 1" and "website 2". Is there any way to change that? So if I have a link to basically one section that only shows products for "website 1" and another link for "website 2".

This wouldn't be very good for me, because I would want to keep the products separate. The people who would be buying products for "website 1" would not be interested in products for "website 2". I wouldn't want my viewers to have to scroll through pages of products for "website 2" in order to see products for "website 1".

I don't mind paying for two separate stores, if it works how I would like it to and the quality of the products meets my expectations.

If I have to create separate accounts for each website, do I still provide my first/last name when joining, or do I put the name of the website instead?

You can name yourself anything you want.

" "website 1" would not be interested in products for "website 2".'

Not sure that is an assumption that I would be too quick to make. People are likely to buy anything they see that they like.

I would set up galleries and then have your landing page set to galleries view.

The benefits of having everything in the same account, in the long run, will probably offset any of you concerns of not have the separation exactly as you want it.

Why don't you upload a couple of each kinds of art you are talking about so we can see what they are?

Welcome and good luck.

My customers have been very happy with their prints and cards, but I can't speak for the clothing yet. . One of my family bought one of my tote bags and we are pleased with it.

I think you could have one site, with multiple galleries.. After all, tourists have children! I've heard honeymoon travel actually is one of the leading causes of offspring!

In my case, both sites are very different. I think running separate accounts will work for me, but I'm not sure if I want to use pixels now or not.

I was reading through the forum and it sounds like there are a lot of issues with shirts and not a lot of response from the admin. Never a good sign.

Benefit of the doubt, I just uploaded an image (I wasn't sure on sizes, so I uploaded a 15000x15000 png) and looks great, of course you never know until you get the final product in your hands.. Sadly, I just discovered that you can only place an image on the front of the shirt. This is a huge disappointment because I would like to have a small logo on the front pocket and a large image on the back.

It might work out for one site because I want to focus more on prints and other things - only a few shirts.. I'll probably give it a try and see how it goes..

many of us here are hoping we get a print on the back option soon..not sure about the compleities involved in printing on front AND back

Printing just the back would be rather strange.

my personal preference is never have a t-shirt with anything printed on the front unless its a logo on the chest pocket..I have a huge collection - back print only ..but thats me...Im not selling to me

In case anyone was wondering, I decided to go with this other account. I've been busy uploading designs and integrated the shopping cart with my new website. It's still early and work in progress :)

Ryan,

You might find by having one account and setting up galleries you market different items separately.

When you sign up for the $30 membership, with the artists website, AW, you can put links on SM with images and bring
one audience to see one subject matter and same separately for the other audience elsewhere on SM.

You would advance possibly quicker in the search rankings do that instead of setting up two accounts.

Dave

why are there two sites? there is pixel and fine art america. .. what is the difference?

fine art america was the first site. and it sold posters etc. then pixels was made to make it sound more universal and he's been trying to make it the main site. pixels has the extra stuff that isn't considered fine art - like phone covers and other things that will come out. but google and everyone else knows about FAA and will go to that. but the main difference is the stuff on the sites. and i think he's going to change the look of pixels so it looks different.

that's really the only difference. however if you paid to be here, use your personal site and it has all the products.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Pixels/FAA have a fulfillment center in the UK to serve the EU and ME with cheaper shipping.

Pixels plays better overseas than FAA. Pixels is now the parent company. FAA was founded in 2006.

Dave

OK . I use a 50 megapixel camera and get large files how do I get fineart printing as all my files excede the 25mb upload and have procolor ICC profiles along with layers , alphas and spot color channels.? Does this site or the other ( puxels), offer the fine art printing option?

25 meg is the limit sadly. despite advancements in camera tech, the size etc, the meg size is limited to 25 still, even as a transparent png. pixels is the same as this site in every other way other than the offerings and name length.

channels, layers, alphas etc - won't be used here, they only accept 2 formats. and it will be compressed. the site prints at 100dpi, so you won't need a huge file anyway.


---Mike Savad
MikeSavad.com

Back to the original question, I've decided not to develop a second account, but only because I want to sell shirts that have designs printed on the back. So unless pixels.com decides to offer that, I'll utilize another print on demand company for that site.

Wait Fineartamerica.com says they print at 720 and 1440 dpi ... 100 dpi from a 25mb up load with a web color profile? This for both sites?

good grief