Benefit of linking a gallery to a community?

ImagesOfWildLife

I was linking my galleries to a community hoping for more visability thus increasing sales.

I found out that Galleries associated with a community will either be smug default, or community default. They will not show my banner - i.e. my name will not appear at the top of galleries with a linked community.

If this is the case, what is the benefit of linking a gallery to a community?

rainprel

ImagesOfWildLife wrote:

I was linking my galleries to a community hoping for more visability thus increasing sales.

I found out that Galleries associated with a community will either be smug default, or community default. They will not show my banner - i.e. my name will not appear at the top of galleries with a linked community.

If this is the case, what is the benefit of linking a gallery to a community?

I came to this forum with the same question. I also wanted to "strut" my site to the community, but whatever I do, I lose the customized look of my site. My banner is gone and replaced by the Smugmug logo, and I get the footer below which I don't want. It looks kind of weird because it does not reflect the theme of my site at all and follows the default theme of Smugmug. Why does one have to conform with the default when you work so hard to customize your own? Is there a code to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

www.yenbaet.com / rainprel.smugmug.com

Andy

ImagesOfWildLife wrote:

I was linking my galleries to a community hoping for more visability thus increasing sales.

I found out that Galleries associated with a community will either be smug default, or community default. They will not show my banner - i.e. my name will not appear at the top of galleries with a linked community.

If this is the case, what is the benefit of linking a gallery to a community?

Just more exposure, and more interaction with fellow photographers.

RustlingLeafDesign

posting to multiple communities
can i post a gallery to muliple communites?

denisegoldberg

RustlingLeafDesign wrote:

can i post a gallery to muliple communites?

No. A gallery can be assigned to only one community.

From the help page at http://www.smugmug.com/help/communities:

At the bottom of your Customize Gallery page, any communities you've joined will appear in a pull-down menu. Choose one.

--- Denise

jfriend

Andy wrote:

Just more exposure, and more interaction with fellow photographers.

What are communities most used for? It is clear that they don't meet the needs of pros because of the loss of customization so I'm wondering what they are mostly used for? Anyone know?

Andy

jfriend wrote:

What are communities most used for? It is clear that they don't meet the needs of pros because of the loss of customization so I'm wondering what they are mostly used for? Anyone know?

Check out the dailyphotos community
http://www.smugmug.com/community/DailyPhotos
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1203855_jyhPQ

Folks get interaction via comments in this one. NOT perfect by any means at all and there's a lot we'd love to do to improve communities - we just haven't gotten to it yet.

jfriend

Andy wrote:

Check out the dailyphotos community
http://www.smugmug.com/community/DailyPhotos
http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/1203855_jyhPQ

Folks get interaction via comments in this one. NOT perfect by any means at all and there's a lot we'd love to do to improve communities - we just haven't gotten to it yet.

OK, I see. I guess it's sharing as part of a group in a non-commercial, non-branded way.

Andy

jfriend wrote:

OK, I see. I guess it's sharing as part of a group in a non-commercial, non-branded way.

For now.. we've got some grand ideas, but some other way more important stuff to do first

Thanks!

jfriend

Andy wrote:

some other way more important stuff to do first

Communities could be a lot more than they are, but no arguments here on doing a lot of other things first.