What am I locking myself into if I choose one site design over another?

ChancyRat

I cannot tell by looking at the thumbnails of the different site designs, what I'm locking myself into by choosing one over the other.

Is there a list somewhere of what the format differences are that one cannot modify, for each site design?
And by the process of elimination, what one *can* modify?

Example criteria: content, theme customization details, layout parameters, colors of (xyz), entire site, homepage, folders, galleries, pages, HTML, CSS, navbar format options, etc.

The deeper I go into customizing, the more painful it will be if I come up against a problem that can't be fixed because of the theme I chose.

There is hopefully a chart along these lines but with much more detail and also what the limits might be, such as, background must be grey, or white, etc.
http://www.smugmug.com/features

Thanks.

denisegoldberg

I think you are overthinking this. If you're not sure about what theme to use why not just start from scratch and create your own theme?

Take a look at the help page at http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/1210627-customization-what-themes-can-i-use- to see what can be changed.

--- Denise

ChancyRat

Thanks, Denise, will have a look-see. I'm already partly invested in the Turbo theme, and someone on another thread said a problem I was having could definitely be due to the theme I chose. That prompted an "uh-oh" moment. As it turned out the theme was not the problem in that instance, but if there are limits to the themes in terms of possible customization, I think it would be good to have an "at a glance" to understand the road one walks down.