Plio is built upon WordPress, the “state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability” *, praised and preferred by bloggers and designers alike, as well as supported by millions of users and a large international community of developers.
Plio leverages WordPress to offer an exclusive and evolutive art portfolio solution, the ideal online art portfolio solution.
* Quoted from http://trends.builtwith.com/blog/WordPress
Portfolio
- Graphic design tailored for the visual arts context.
- Additional themes by world-class designers.
- Customize your appearance with additional variations and options by theme.
- Associate captions and descriptions to images and groups of images.
- Gallery structure to show artworks with oversized thumbnails.
- Lightboxes to display images.
- Steady navigation menus and breadcrumbs.
- Customize your navigation menus.
- Widget-ready side bar.
- Slideshow component for homepage or other pages.
- 3 distinct entry types to organize your content: works, pages and posts.
- Edit your Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
- YouTube and Vimeo integration with custom thumbnails for your video.
- Present your work in a second language as well.
Simple and elegant visual layout designed to make the art standout.
Growing number of choices makes it easy to keep up with new trends.
Customize further, without the need to learn CSS, HTML or else. Very easy, choose an appearance that goes well with your work and then, change it as often as you’d like. With more than 30 well-thought variations and options available (color schemes, typefaces, rounded corners, bigger text, etc.) you will find a visual scheme that suits you and your work.
Give context to the presentation of your artwork so people can get a complete sense of what you do.
Easy to use presentation that is scalable, flexible and easy to maintain. Classic navigation model that is familiar to visitors. Viewers can get a sense of the work before clicking on it. Makes the viewing of your work a pleasant user-friendly experience with efficient browsing.
Stylish display of the images of your work. Scalable approach that adapts gracefully to different screen sizes.
Easy, straightforward navigation that allows visitors to find their way around and focus on your work.
Guide the visitor or reviewer by showing the available pages and categories in the order that makes the more sense.
Use widgets to allow alternate navigation through your portfolio and help visitors find your work.
Keep audience engaged by using slideshows. A homepage slideshow is a great way to set a mood to visit your portfolio.
Keep content organized and manage it easily. Works represent your artworks, pages show general information and posts let you blog, publish news and more. Keep hierarchies according to relevance, timing or importance. Well-structured content makes it easier for visitors to find their way around your website and to connect to your work.
For web-savvy users, further customize by retouching your CSS.
Make a media rich website. You can add videos of your art, your creative process or your events. Integration with Vimeo and YouTube allows you to publish video without going through the hassle of appropriately optimizing media files for the web, plus you get to develop your presence in these networks as well. Alternatively, directly upload small video files (QuickTime format supported).
If you are developing an international career or you live in a bilingual country, you might want to publish your website in an alternative language.
Backend
- Content Management System (CMS).
- Complete and evolutive administration interface.
- Dashboard and administration bar.
- Neat content-presentation separation.
- Administration interface in 3 possible languages: English, French and Spanish.
- Media library to manage images, videos and other media.
- Easy importing of multiple images.
- First-class cloud hosting.
- Visitor and traffic statistics (Google Analytics).
Plio helps you keep your content fresh, up-to-date and organized by using the intuitive WordPress Content Management System (CMS).
You can easily manage and update the content, settings and appearance of your website by yourself without any technical knowledge (no programming required). Don’t depend on anyone to keep your online presence up-to-date.
Convenient navigation of administration interface. Shortcuts to most commonly used sections to make the updating process easy, fast and efficient.
Easy to change visual presentation (graphic designs). You can change appearance whenever you want. Change your mind, change your website. No need to re-upload your content, everything stays there; it is simply presented in a different way.
Use and display your website in your preferred language.
Find everything conveniently organized in one place. Reuse media in different sections of your website without duplicating the files.
Publish entire projects easily and efficiently with a few clicks only. If you prepare your images with meta-data such as captions and tags, it gets imported with your images so uploading your complete annotated projects is an efficient task.
All-inclusive service. No technical hassle to deal with. Periodical back-ups and performant caching system, so your content never gets lost and accessibility is permanent.
Get to know your visitors and be able to follow and measure the reach of your website.
Online Exposure
- Free membership and easy registration.
- Custom stand-alone domain name and up to 5 derived email addresses.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
- Make a blog.
- Syndication (RSS).
- Allow comments on your blog or portfolio.
- Publish and manage external links.
- Use keywords to tag your artworks and posts to relate your content to others.
- Plio showroom.
- Social network integration.
- Plio professional network.
- Build a profile with your interests
- Have a circle of relationships
- Participate in groups and forums
- Use internal messages to communicate with other members
- Affiliate program.
Risk-free. Get your website up-and-running in minutes. Try, explore and learn before engaging with us.
Present yourself with the most professional image.
Content referencing and automatically generated sitemap. Get search engines to correctly index your content so relevant web surfers can find you.
Make an appealing online presence by publishing interesting content that will draw new visitors and entice them to keep coming back.
People can register to your streamline so they receive updates and notifications on their own email inbox or RSS manager (feed reader or news aggregator).
Interact and exchange with your audience. Give and receive feedback. Connect with your audience. Allow comments by entry type or specifically by entry.
Publish related links to let people know more about you, your practice, your context or your interests. Promote others and develop relationships.
People in the network can find your content by searching keywords. Use descriptive specific tags to allow people to discover your work.
Find your portfolio featured in our showroom, specifically created to promote our members’ work.
Benefit from social network visibility. Maximize your exposure by letting people spread the word about your work on Facebook, Twitter and more.
Great for boosting visibility and meeting peers:
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Accompaniment & Support
- Accompaniment through registration and portfolio setup.
- Access to resources.
- Premium Support.
Learn your way around Plio by following the extensive support articles. Be able to get the most out of your Plio portfolio website with less effort.
Learn from other artists and partners. Contribute yourself to get seen and share your experience and knowledge.
Exclusive channel to access support.
For Premium members only.