Share Your Photobooks With Friends on Facebook or Your Blog

You’ve spent hours making your photo book. When it arrives, you’re delighted to hold it in your hands and share it with friends and loved ones. But what about your friends and loved ones far, far away? Inkubook’s Share feature lets you share your memories with anybody online using Facebook, or using your own personal blog or website. We’ve recently made some improvements to this feature that we’d like to share:

  • New Fullscreen button – the beauty of your books are no longer constrained to a little box!
  • You get to watch the book widget being built, giving you a much better idea of when it will be ready to share
  • By popular demand, sharing book widgets on your own website is back
  • Book widgets shared on Facebook work properly for people using a secured connection
  • If you change your book after you’ve shared it and want to update the book widget, you only have to wait for the pages that have changed or been added to be rebuilt

GETTING STARTED

Click the pink Share button in the bookshelf, or in the editor:

Share buttons in Inkubook bookshelf and editor

Inkubook will start building your book widget, showing you what’s going on page-by-page:

Inkubook shows your book widget as it's being built

Once it’s finished building, you can share your book with your friends:

Once the book widget is built, it's ready to share with friends

SHARING YOUR BOOK

Facebook

Click the Post on Facebook button to post your book on your wall:

Sharing a photo book on your Facebook wall

Maybe you don’t want to share your book with just everybody on Facebook – no problem! Just click the lock at the bottom of the window, and you can restrict who can see your book on your wall to just you, a few specific friends, or a group:

Setting Facebook privacy for your photo book

Your blog or website

Clicking the Post on your Blog button will copy the necessary HTML snippet to your clipboard that you’ll need to paste into your blog or website. Once you do, it’ll look something like this:

–> classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0″ id=”inkuflip” align=”middle” allowFullScreen=”true” quality=”high”>

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Making Changes

If you make changes to your book after you’ve shared it and you want those changes to show up on in your book widget, just click the Share button again. Inkubook will rebuild any pages that have changed, add new ones and remove deleted ones. You don’t have to re-post your book widget to Facebook or your blog again; the changes will automatically show up!

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Category: Announcements andFeatured Feature - Date: Tuesday 28 June 2011 - Comments: 2 Comments

Put the “We” In Your Wedding Album

Let’s face it, the tried-and-true, stand-in-a-row-and-smile style wedding photos are nice to have, but do they really capture the personalities of you and your better half?

With a wedding album from Inkubook, you make the call on what shots go into your own album. And you get to personalize it in ways that your average album just can’t accommodate.

Tips for Making Your Personalized Wedding Photo Book

  • Never worry about yellowing, fading or loss: Clip your wedding announcement from the newspaper and scan it to include in the photo book. Do the same with other paper goods, such as your save-the-date, invitation and program. See if the best man and maid of honor are willing to give you their hand-written notes from their toasts, too!
  • Experience your big day from another angle: Ask friends and family to include their email addresses in the guest book; then invite them to upload their snapshots so that you can include them in your book.
  • Don’t miss any special moments: Ask a friend or family member to capture candid moments – the tiny groomsman and flower girl napping in the corner; you and grandma cutting a rug to “We Are Family;” the happy couple driving away in their decorated car.
  • Give it the 3-D feel of a keepsake scrapbook by scanning small items such as the bride’s garter, the groom’s tie, a flower from the bouquet, lace from the dress, etc.

Other Ways to Use Inkubook for Your Wedding

 

Use our Great Big Square style in place of or to supplement the traditional album with a more personalized Inkubook.

Put together photos from your engagement shoot for a guest book that you’ll actually want to display after the wedding day.

No matter where you plan to go, your first trip as husband and wife is sure to be memorable. Capture the excitement in a honeymoon travel book.

MORE IDEAS

  • Create unforgettable thank-you gifts for parents, grandparents or members of the wedding party.
  • Think ahead to the first anniversary. Start uploading photos from your honeymoon and other more basic snapshots that will remind you of your first year together.
  • No wedding coming up? No problem. Gather old wedding pics and mementos and create an anniversary album for parents or grandparents.
  • As an alternative to a wedding slideshow, compile all your favorite and funniest photos of each other into a Mini Brag book that you can incorporate into your table centerpieces. Buy as few as 10 copies and you’re eligible for Inkubook’s volume discount of 15%.

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Category: Inspiration andLinks andResources andTips 'n' Tricks andUncategorized - Date: Wednesday 22 June 2011 - Comments: None