Sharing albums

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Table of contents 1 Publishing albums to your site 2 Inviting others to view site or albums 3 Other Sharing options

When you create a Phanfare account, you set a site URL that is formatted as http://username.phanfare.com. You can choose to have that site be open for viewing or protect it with a site password. You can change your username, and hence your site URL, whenever you like.

If you are looking to share just a single album with someone you can keep you can obtain an external link to it and communicate the link outside of Phanfare or use our email invite tools to send the external link to the recipients.

Publishing albums to your site

When you create a new album, it is unpublished by default. This gives you time to get all the contents uploaded, edited, captioned, etc. the way you want it before anyone can view it.

Once you have the album ready for viewing, you need to click the "publish" button to publish the album to your site.

Inviting others to view site or albums

Using Phanfare's email invitations, you can invite people to:

• View your entire site
• View just a specific album
• View a specific album but also give them access to all albums published on your site

Site Invitations: To send someone a site invitation:

1. Sign into Phanfare (http://www.phanfare.com/login.aspx)
2. Click Share site button
3. Pick the picture for the invite, recipients, and customize a message
4. Hit send.

If the site has a site password, it will be included in the invite.

Album invitations: To send someone an invitation to view an album:

1. Sign into Phanfare (http://www.phanfare.com/login.aspx)
2. Select photos and videos-->edit albums from the header
3. Select the album you want to invite them to
4. Click share album-->email link to album
5. Pick the picture for the invite and the recipients
6. If the album is published you will have the option to choose if the recipients will only be able to view this album or be able to navigate from this album to other albums on your site. Unpublished albums will only give recipients access to the one album.
7. Customize a subject and message
8. Hit send.

If the site has a site password, it will be included in the invite.

Other Sharing options

Phanfare offers a few other sharing options:

1. Registration-based security: Similar to social networking sites, you can add friends and family within Phanfare. It will allow them to receive automatic daily notifications when you create albums. But friends and family have to register for a Phanfare account to make this work (there is no cost for this). For any given album to be visible to connected friends and family, you will need to go into album options for the album and specifically share with your friend or family connections. Read more.
2. External links: You can get a link to any of your Phanfare albums that doesn't allow access to any other album in your account. Read more.
3. Share on Facebook: You can link your Phanfare account to your Facebook account and push photos and videos directly to your Facebook account. Read more.
4. Share on Flickr: You can push images directly into your Flickr account. Read more.
5. RSS: Phanfare offers a number of RSS feeds. You can get site RSS feeds or album specific feeds. Read more.