This section covers the following topics:
General Information
Enable Update Web Site
Adding Logo and Gallery Picture on Home Page
Adding Upcoming Events
Adding Artist Bio's and Pictures
Adding Items to your Web Site
Another Way to Add Artist Bio's and Pictures & Titles and Items to
your Web Site
You should store all Item,
Logo, and Gallery Pictures
in the C:\Masterpiece\Pictures
folder as they should all be in one central location.
Your folder
path
needs to have no spaces or funny characters
in it and the path should not be too long.
Masterpiece cannot handle really long folder paths and it prefers to have
no spaces or funny characters in the folder and image names.
You can create subfolders to help you sort your items, for example by artist
name. When you name the folders do not use any spaces or - hyphens.
The folder below named "Ken Austin"
is incorrect as it has a space in the name of the folder.
"Ken_Austin", "KenAustin", and "kenaustin"
are all examples on how to name your folders without spaces.
When you name your pictures you should also have no spaces or funny characters in them like in the example below.
You
should store all Artist Bios and
Artist Pictures in the ArtistBio
Folder under C:\Masterpiece.
Your folder path needs to have no spaces or funny characters in it and
the path cannot be too long.
You can create subfolders to help you sort your items, example by artist
name. When
you name the folders do not use any spaces.
Go to Tools > Change Company Settings.
Go to the tab Online. Click Edit on the Toolbar and check the box for "Send Data to Web site" then click on the big button to "Register Connection Via The Internet." This should give you a User Name and Password.
Note: This only needs to be done once and only if you have a web site or test site through us.
.
Copy your Logo and Gallery Pictures to C:\Masterpiece\Pictures. See the General Information for more information on why you should do this.
Go to Online > Modify Web Company Data.
Click Edit
on the Toolbar.
Enter your text information into the text fields such as Company Description,
Hours of Operation, Store Location, etc.
To enter your pictures for Company
Logo and/or Gallery Photo,
double-click the field.
This will open the browse window.
Browse to where you are keeping the Logo or Gallery photo and click on
it and click the select button or you can just double-click the picture.
To feed in the other picture, repeat the steps above.
Now verify the check box is checked for Update Company Pictures.
Click Save on the Toolbar.
By checking the box to Update Company Pictures you have marked them to be loaded to your web site the next time you run Online > Update My Website. Until you run Update My Website these pictures and anything else you have marked to Add to Web or Delete from Web will not appear or be removed.
Go to Online > Modify Web Company Data.
Click on the 2nd tab called Upcoming
Events Text.
Click Edit on the Toolbar.
Free text in what you would like to appear on your Upcoming Events Web
Page.
Click Save on the Toolbar.
When you want to actually update the information to your website click Online > Update My Website.
Note: The 3rd tab labeled "Upcoming Events List" is an OPTIONAL feature that requires custom programming.
To create the text for your Artist Bio's you will need to save them in RTF format. You can use many different programs to save in RTF format such as Microsoft Word, Notepad, or Wordpad. Once you have created your RTF documents you can copy your Artist Bio RTF docs and any Artist Pictures to C:\Masterpiece\ArtistBio. See the General Information for more information on why you should do this.
Note: When creating the RTF document do not use the & or unmatched quotes or the Bio will load blank.
To add an Artist Bio RTF document and/or Picture to Masterpiece to be marked to be added to your web site you will need to do the following:
Find
the Artist (Contact) you would
like to add to your website.
Click Edit on the Toolbar.
Go to the Online tab.
Double-click the field for Artist Bio,
browse to where your RTF Bio is and double-click on it.
Double-click the field for Picture,
browse to where your picture is for the Bio and double-click on it.
Go to the Web Status drop down
and select Add to Web to mark
this Artist to be added to your web site.
Note: The following are OPTIONAL
features that require custom programming depending on the web template
you have chosen.
You can choose what Image will appear on the Lists of Artists as your first piece by double-clicking the field First Title and selecting a Title or you may leave this field blank.
The check box for Upcoming Show is to add this Artist to your Upcoming Show page.
The Short Description is where you can add a sentence or small paragraph under the Artist Link on the List of Artist page.
Click Save on the Toolbar.
Choose the appropriate button:
If
you would like to add all Titles and Items for this Artist click the YES button.
If you would like to add only certain Titles and Items click the NO button and then to add particular
Items you will need to go to each Item and mark it Add to Web.
When you want to actually add them to your website click Online > Update My Website. When you run Online > Update My Website it Adds anything you have marked Add to Web to your web site.
Find the Item
you would like to add to your website.
Click Edit on the Toolbar.
Go to the Web tab.
Choose the drop down for Title Web Status
and choose Add to Web to mark
the Title to be added to your website.
Next choose the drop down for Item Web
Status and choose Add to Web
to mark
the Item to be added to your website.
Click Save on the Toolbar.
When you want to actually add them to your website click Online > Update My Website. When you run Online > Update My Website it Adds anything you have marked Add to Web to your web site.
General Info
Add Artist RTF Bio
Add Picture to a Title
This screen below combines most of the 2 topics above (Adding Artist Bio's and Pictures & Adding Items to your Web Site) for adding pictures to Items, and Titles and also adding an Artist Bio RTF files all from this one screen.
Go to Online > Web Status Browser.
In the Top section for Artists, click on an Artist.
This will populate that Artists Titles in the Middle section.
To add an Artist Bio that is in RTF format click on the Add button to the right of the Artist Name in the Bio Column.
Double-click in the blank field to browse to your Artist RTF file.
Browse to where your RTF file is using the drop down for Look In.
Double-click the RTF file or click it once to select it and click on the Select button.
Click the OK button.
You will see that in the Bio column the button
has now changed to Edit.
You can choose what Image will appear on the Lists of Artists as your first
piece by double-clicking the field First
Title and selecting a Title or you may leave this field blank.
Next choose the drop down for Status
and choose Add to Web to mark
it to be added to your website.
Click Save on the Toolbar.
When you want to actually add what is marked to your website click Online > Update My Website. When you run Online > Update My Website it Adds anything you have marked Add to Web to your web site.
To add a Picture click on the Add button to the right of the Artist Name in the Pic 1 Column.