Overview of Design Process

We want to make sure that your new liveBooks lite site represents you and your photography and we will work with you on a one-on-one basis to ensure that this is accomplished.

“liveBooks puts the photograph first and the streamlined design makes it easy to navigate... The resulting website exceeds my expectations and the experience of working with their helpful staff has made it even more rewarding.” - Michael Jang, Photographer, SF (http://michaeljang.com)

We can facilitate or perform as much or as little of the design work as you like. We know that our clients are visual people and many like to take a hands-on approach to the design process. If this is the case for you, we will serve as a guide and a facilitator in the process. If this is not the case, we can do the design work for you. LiveBooks will build your new site to your specifications. In order to accomplish this we need to understand specifics of the aesthetic you are trying to accomplish. Generally, there are three approaches we can take to getting this done:

1) Review our list of example liveBooks sites (contact your sales representative for a current list of client examples) and choose a site or sites that we can work from as a starting point. We encourage all clients to review sample sites even if you have preexisting ideas, just to see the various ways that a liveBooks site can be deployed. ) LiveBooks can emulate your existing website or other promotional materials. ) Describe in a detailed email what you envision, or can create a visual guide for us in Photoshop® or similar software.

Once we receive your basic preferences, we will build your site. Please send preferences to design@livebooks.com. During this time you can be preparing your images according to the image prep instructions in the Image Prep section of this document. As soon as we have installed your site, we will deliver the site to you on a temporary URL so that you can view and test the site and so that you can populate it with initial images. You will be using our editSuite software to import the images. A quick guide to using the editSuite software is included in the editSuite Quick Start Guide Manual section of this document. Once you are happy with the site and ready to go live you can follow the instructions in the Going Live section of this document to provide us the information that we need to make your liveBooks site live. It can take up to 7 hours for the site to propagate. If you have an existing site, the transition will be seamless as your existing site will remain available until your new liveBooks site replaces it.