What if you could make a bride-to-be's site a core part of her event planning? In my last post I explained how you could publish a Workspace client website in just a few minutes, but you can add far more impact with some optional extras that take just a few minutes more...

Imagine it's months before the wedding and you've done an engagement shoot. You upload the images and create a new site for the couple as I described last time, but with two optional features added: 1. An event details page, with the wedding date, location and other details. 2. A gift registry. Imagine! Instead of buying the happy couple yet another toaster, their friends and family will be glad to contribute towards a meaningful gift - their photography and wedding album! If the couple have set up other registries you can add links to them as well. Why? because the goal is to make this site all they need. Both those easy-to-set up features will encourage your clients to make the site public, share it with friends and family, and spread the word about you and your photography at the same time.

Fast forward to the happy day...

You upload the wedding photos, sorted into collections and ready for viewing. You open and edit the couple's site, and add the extra image collections to it, including a collection for the album. But is the bride happy with what you've chosen for her album? You make the collection editable, and add her as an authorised user so she can modify your selection. Meantime she's sharing the photos and you're hopefully picking up some sales - and booking enquiries - from her friends and family. Now you've completed the album design - or maybe Queensberry had done it for you! - and you want the couple to review it, maybe suggest some changes, but eventually approve it before you place the order. You add the album to the website in exactly the same way you did the photography. Your bride reviews the album, adds comments and edit requests, and eventually approves it. Meantime she can also share it with her friends (who can look but not touch). In just a few minutes you've created a beautiful-looking site that will be genuinely appealing and useful to your clients, that provides a convenient way to interact with them about their album, and that helps spread the word about you while encouraging some nice add-on sales from friends and family. Click here to try it out, or here to upgrade if necessary. And tell us what you think, so we can make it even better!

Cheers, Ian