Integrating PhotoDeck galleries or eCommerce with another website

PhotoDeck includes a complete website builder, but you can also use PhotoDeck only for galleries or eCommerce and integrate them with an existing website.

Technically, PhotoDeck galleries and pages will always be displayed via a PhotoDeck “website” on its own URL. This guarantees ultra-fast page loading and excellent mobile responsiveness. Here are our recommendations so that the integration is as seamless as possible for your audience:

1. Add links from a website to another on both websites, for example in their respective navigation menus. You can easily customize the navigation menu on PhotoDeck to include different links to pages on your main website.
2. Under My website / Setup / Website integration, activate the option to integrate with another website. This will ensure that all “Home” links and the link on your logo redirect to your other website.
3. Customize the PhotoDeck design to use the same logo, colors and fonts as on your main website. PhotoDeck includes in-depth design customization so that you can align its visual identity with your main website in a way that is transparent for your visitors.
4. Optional: consider placing the PhotoDeck galleries under the same domain as your main website, using a different subdomain (for example: galleries.mydomain.com).

Linking images on another website to their product page on PhotoDeck

Upload the images also to PhotoDeck galleries and attach them to a pricing profile to offer them for sale. On your other website image pages, place “Buy” links that point to:

• http://[your PhotoDeckURL]/media/IMG_1234.JPG/price: link to the pricing page for the image whose original file is IMG_1234.jpg. Make sure all your files have unique filenames!
• or http://[your PhotoDeckURL]/media/302348fe-41ac-11df-8124-002219dda2c0/price: link to the pricing page for image whose PhotoDeck ID is 302348fe-41ac-11df-8124-002219dda2c0. Use our CSV export feature on the My images & videos / → CSV export page to get the list of your images and corresponding PhotoDeck IDs. This is the safest and best-performing method, especially if your filenames are not unique.