How to organize Smugmug for Business AND Pleasure....?

Oakley

When I first joined SmugMug, my photos and galleries were all for personal pleasure --- shared with friends and family.

Then I started getting gigs and so I "crammed in" the business stuff --- client galleries, testimonials, etc.

Now I'm ready to convert my site so that it is less my "home" and more my "store front".....though I'd still like to live upstairs.

OK...stay with me here.

What is the best way to turn my site into a pro site while still keeping my personal photos and making them accessible to my friends and family?

Thanks!!

Ryan
www.thepupil.ca

Allen

On your homepage do you want it to be strictly business?

You could create two different site areas for these two. Customers would not see your personal area.
Make your homepage only for business.

Create two navbars, business and personal.
Turn off the gallery/category box. No browsing. Business and personal navbars would provide that.
Show business navbar on all business pages.

Create an unlisted landing page for personal area with personal navbar.
Provide this link to them. Perhaps even password this page.
Something like this showing all your personal categories and/or galleries.
Or a personal site index similar to this.

Allen

BTW, if you put the same password on every personal gallery it will be used for every gallery in the
personal area so only entered once. Negative, in PW'ed galleries keywords, datepage, etc., won't
show the personal photos if the business peeps stumble upon those pages.

Oakley

Thanks Allen....I think that was the solution I was looking for.