Pikicentral

Pikicentral is a platform for creating your own fun image generation sites. We give you the power to create your own image generation site, theme it, target it towards a niche, add value to an existing user base, or create a new user base.

Easily grow your user base by tapping into the viral traffic generation these sites have. Users of your sites will become the number one advocates by posting images created at your sites on social networks, blogs and forums, all linking back to your site!

Each of your sites can be easily branded. You can upload your own logos, select a color scheme or even customize your own color scheme. Then you can create your own bling categories and upload your own bling graphics.

There are many niche communities on the web that would love their own dressup site targeting a particular interest.

Ok, so you have created your sites, but you're having trouble finding them. There are two links in the top blue bar of this page, under "View your sites", Dressup and comic.

These are your two image generation sites. The easiest way to get to them is by clicking the links, you can do it now, it will open a new window.

We recommend bookmarking these sites so you can easily get back to them in the future.

Visit one of your two image generation sites (make sure you bookmark them), and click the login at the top of the page.

Enter your username and password, the site will detect you are an administrator and reload with a link to this administration panel at the top. Click the link.

We mean you have two sites to play with and make a success!

You have your own Dressup site and your own Comic creation site!

When you upload original material that you have authored you retain ownership of that material. However, by using our system you grant us a license to use that material. Refer to our Terms of User for more detail.

There is no real theoretical limit to the space allocated to each new Affiliate. However our system monitors all Affiliate account usage to ensure the web space usage is commensurate with the traffic activity.

Also, each new image created by a user is stored by us to facilitate the viral marketing feature when someone viewing that image in an email or from site where the image has been embedded, can click on the image and be returned to the Affiliate site where the image was created.

However, if an image has not been virally accessed for any period greater then 60 days, our system purges that image out of public access.

The Affiliate program operates on a revenue share model based on two banner ads. All new Affiliate sites have two banner ads one that belongs to the Affiliate and one that belongs to PikiCentral.

The position of the two banners is randomly swapped between us on a regular basis so that we both get equal prime exposure rights. Content provision of the banners is setup within the Affiliate administration console and Affiliates have three options for content (1) Google Adsense, (2) Adbrite, or (3) a custom html banner option. In this way, the revenue earned by an Affiliates banner goes directly to them without PikiCentral touching it.

Affiliates can monitor traffic on their site via an in depth traffic reporting section included within the Affiliate administration console

Yes, this can be setup within the Affiliate administration console within the Domain Settings page, which is a sub-menu item of the Settings page.

A unique user is, for a specified period of time such as a day or month, an individual that has visited a Web site. If a visitor visits the site twice in the time period, it does not increment the unique users.

You sure can.

Under navigation, click on website statistics. This will load the statistics for both of your sites (totals combined). Scroll down the page and you will see an area called "Hits by Country". This displays a breakdown of visitors coming to your site via country.

To view where people are posting images created from your sites, click "viral stats", located under website statistics. This will give you a breakdown of all the webpages displaying an image created from one of your sites. Information displayed here is great to see if your sites are becoming popular on particular sites, social networks, forums or blogs!

Under navigation, click on settings, then click domains. This loads the page which lets you configure and map your domains.

You will see an area labelled "starting domain", and within the box will be the starting domain you picked when creating your account.

If you are not happy with your starting domain you can change it here by typing a new domain and even selecting a new domain to host it on. Once you have done this, click "update default domain" and your setting will change.

Sure can!

Under navigation, click on settings, then click domains.

The first step in setting up your domain with Pikicentral, is purchasing a domain. In order to do this, you should use a domain registrar.

After you have obtained a domain, you will need to create a CNAME record that points your domain to dressup.pikicentral.com or comic.pikicentral.com. This record informs computers that your domain shares a computer with www.pikicentral.com. This setup is done through your domain provider's DNS configuration system.

All images generated through the site are hosted on our servers, these are under a different url than the site itself. If you want your site to look and feel completely independant of pikicentral, you can also map the url's of where the images are hosted to your own domain. To do this you follow the same steps as mapping a domain.

Not by default. But if you contact us, we are always ready to listen!

Under Navigation, click Advertising. This loads the page to setup your advertising for both of your sites. In the dropdown, select custom html. Here you can insert your own html.

Not by default. But if you contact us, we are always ready to listen!

Under navigation, click settings, the click site settings.

Half way down the page you will see an area for Image settings. Upload your own image here and it will automatically be addede at the bottom of user generated images.

Under navigation, click page management, then site settings.

This will load your Dressup home page settings. In the menu just below the title click About. From here you can click the "edit text" button under "page text". A new popup window will load where you can type in your information. Once you click save, check the dropdown is set to "active" and click "update".

This will have edited your dressup site about text. You can do the same by selecting Comic pages under Page management in the left menu.

Under navigation, click page management, then colors and fonts.

This will load your Dressup home page settings. In the menu just below the title, click "Contact". You can easily fill out the fields and click "update", or you could add more information by clicking the "edit text" button under "page text". A new popup window will load where you can type in your information. Once you click save, check the dropdown is set to active and click "".

This will have edited your dressup site about text. You can do the same by selecting Comic pages under Page management in the left menu.

Sure Can.

Easiest way to do this is under Page Management, viewing either Dressup Pages or Comic pages, Click "External Home Page".

Yep.

Find the page you wish to change the name of, under page management. There is a field called page name, change this. When you click update and look at your site, you will see your page name has changed in the top navigation.

Under navigation, click settings, then site settings.

This will load your site setting for your dressup site. Here you can upload an image form your computer, then click update. You can do the same for the comic site, by clicking comic site in the top menu.

For best results, make your logo 65px high. Don't make your logo any longer than 300px.

Under navigation, click appearance, from here you can select a theme.

If you want to customize the colors, click colors and fonts, under appearance.

Under navigation, click settings, the click site settings.

Half way down the page you will see an area for Image settings. Upload your own image here and it will automatically be addeed at the bottom of user generated images.

Under navigation, click on Bling items. On the page that loads, is a create new bling button, click this.

Here you can setup your new bling item. Note, for best results and transparency use a flat, one layered photoshop file, or a .png file. It will accept gifs and jpg's but transparency will not work as well.

You can't remove individual blings, but you can remove complete categories.

To do this, click on bling items, then categories (under navigation).

To remove a category untick the category.

Under navigation, click on Bling items, then click default categories.

You can select different categories to be loaded first for both your dressup and comic site(s).

Select your prefered category from the dropdown list and click "update defaults"

Under navigation, click appearance, then click Colors and Fonts.

This will load the color settings for both of your sites To change the advertising colors for both sites, click the "Show Advanced Color Options" box.

You will now see an area to set advertising colors.

To set the colors for each site individually, click on the site in the menu above the colors, then show advanced colors again

Under navigation, click appearance, then images.

This will load your image setting for you dressup site If you wish to change the image for your comic site, click Comic in the menu below the title.

You will see a category of images called "top Navigation", one of the images listed will be "Top Menu Background", this is the image that repeats behind the logo and navigation buttons.

You can upload your own image and it will be repeated in place of the current one.

Yes you can. Under navigation, click appearance, then click colors and fonts.

Click on dressup in the submenu.

You will see a color labelled Manage Pane Background Color, changing this will change the color of the manage pane area.

Yes you can.

For each tab, you will have to make an on and off image (well you could use the same image for both, but this way works best). Once you have done that, you can then set the tabs.

Click appearance, then images, this will load your dressup site images. There is a category of images labelled "top navigation", listed here are all your tab images. You can upload your own images from your computer, then click update.

At the moment you cannot change the html layout of the pages, we are looking into building this in the future (no timeframes for this one though).