First published April 27, 2019

PhotoBiz 9 is our most advanced website builder yet! We've revamped everything to offer you superior designs, enhanced tools, and increased speeds, ensuring your website stays contemporary, and scalable, and performs optimally for your business.

Click here to compare Portfolio to PhotoBiz 9 and see the difference!

Transitioning to PhotoBiz 9 is straightforward. However, if you prefer assistance, our 'We Build It For You' service is here to help! Simply select a fresh design, provide us with your updated content, and we'll assemble it for you. Plus, we'll optimize it for SEO, lifting the burden off your shoulders. Enjoy a comprehensive, perfectly optimized, and swift website that's always accessible to your customers.

Still interested in doing it yourself? Here’s how to move to the new platform and start building on PhotoBiz 9:

Start by selecting a template from our template library. There are new designs to choose from and you can change your design anytime. Take a look at the library and preview the samples.

When you select a template to start from, your PhotoBiz 9 builder will load those premade pages and sample content. All you have to do is populate that content and tweak the design until it looks the way you want.

Note: Because the new builder is extremely flexible, any template can be customized to get the specific layout that you want. At this point, you’re mainly selecting how you want your menu and logo to be positioned!

The PhotoBiz 8 builder is a little different from the Portfolio builder that you’re used to. After you pick your template, click on the PhotoBiz Assistant, the orange button in the bottom right corner, this will give you an overview of the functionality. It’s a good idea to get started by experimenting on a new test page. That way you can get used to the new content blocks and options before you start building for real.

Create a new page by clicking the gray NEW button and selecting NEW PAGE. You can start with a blank option or a preset page design. Once you select your preferred page, you can start adding content with the content blocks available for you to use on the right-hand side of the window.

Click or drag a few blocks from your toolbar and pop them into the middle building area. You can click into blocks to add your words and images and customize how you want that section to look. You can change the padding, colors, background, and other things about every block to make it look the way you want.  

Move your blocks around to change the order. Try adding a BANNER. Experiment with different layouts for IMAGE blocks. Try dragging a text block next to another text block and see what happens. LIST ITEMS are super cool, and you can use them to link images, text, and videos to other areas of your site.

If you get stuck, click on the orange question mark icon in the bottom right corner of the control panel to access the PhotoBiz Assistant. You can watch tutorial videos, read knowledge base articles, and submit support tickets.

Got a handle on how to use the PhotoBiz 9 builder? Great! Now you can start moving your content over to your new site.

The best way to do this is to open a second tab or browser window. Set one to your Portfolio, and the other to your new PhotoBiz 9 builder.

Now you can flip between the two windows and copy and paste your words into your new pages quickly.

You can use the clipboard to easily transfer over your image galleries.

In a Portfolio gallery, simply drag a box around all of your images to select them all. Then drag those selected images to the gray box that says CLIPBOARD. If you have a lot of images, they may be sectioned into pages. You may see little icons that say 1, 2, 3 ... if so, make sure to visit each page to snag your images!

Now hop over to your PhotoBiz 9 window. Open an image block and select CLIPBOARD. All of your most recent images will be saved there, so you can select which ones you want to insert into the block.

Your most recently saved images will be at the end of your clipboard. If you want to insert an entire page of images, just click SELECT ALL and then INSERT. If you want to insert MOST of the images on a page, you can do the same thing – select all, then deselect the ones you don’t want to insert. It’s a little quicker than clicking each one :)

Here’s another tip: you can set how many rows and columns you want your galleries to load at the start. By default, they’re set to automatically display the first couple rows of images so your page can load quickly. If you want to display more, click CHANGE next to your current layout, and you can select how many rows and columns that block will show when the page loads.

You can also show visitors a LOAD MORE button when they get to the end that will cause another wave of images to load. Set that up in the LAST ITEM LINK section of the block editor.

After transferring your text and images, continue to populate your pages and feel free to create additional ones!

Consider adding a blog page, establishing your online store, or incorporating forms into your pages.

There's no limit to the number of pages you can create or their length. The possibilities are endless—embrace your creativity!

Once everything is good to go you can publish your website!

To do this, go to the MENU in the top right of your screen and click DOMAINS. You'll see your active domain and your PhotoBiz 9 site in draft below. Just click EDIT MAIN to make the change, and update your domain to the new site. 

If you ever get stuck or want some advice, give us a call at 866-463-7620 and we’ll be glad to help. We are standing by to help make your transition as smooth as possible. 

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