Segregation

cambler

I suspect that there's no way to clearly segregate categories, is there?

That is, I shoot two things. I shoot fashion/glamour, and I shoot cheerleading competitions (by way of explanation, I'm a fashion/glamour photographer but my daughter cheers, so her gym has asked me to shoot competitions. I'm not weird, I swear!).

That said, I don't want parents coming to look for cheerleading shots to see the fashion/glamour stuff. It can get racy.

I'm looking at two separate accounts to ensure that this doesn't happen, right? There's no way to have two completely segregated genres of photography and keep one set from the other, especially since I can only have one account name. Right?

dogwood

possible option
If you didn't have a ton of cheerleading photos, you could creat a private gallery and hide your navigation back to your main site. The url would be a bit unwieldy (yourname.smugmug.com/xxxxxxx) and wouldn't be too difficult to figure out how to get to your main gallery (drop the xxxxxxx in the address bar).

But I'm sure you've figured this part out. I'll be curious to see what the experts say about your question.

Andy

Private, passworded galleries? Led to, by a navbar link?

cambler

Andy wrote:

Private, passworded galleries? Led to, by a navbar link?

Yes, but those would be individual galleries, and would still have the URL of "cheerphoto" which has nothing to do with my fashion/glamour work.

I want the ability to, in my single account, combining the print accounting and revenue, to be able to have two completely separate sites, with separate branding, separate themes, complete with galleries and catagories and such. I don't want caltgories and breadcrumbs to intermix.

Now mind you, I'd pay the $99 (or is it now $149?) fee twice for this. But what I don't want is two separate accounts where I have to log in twice each day to check sales and the like. I want one, combined sales and accounting page, with one login and password.

Now, take "two" and make it "n" in that I'd love to have one for my fashion/glamour, and one for cheerleading, and one for some other genre of photography that I've not thought of yet, but I'm sure I'll be doing, oh, next month or two :-)

I expect the answer is, "no, you can't have your cake and eat it too," in which case I'll say, "yeah, but what good is having cake if you're not going to eat it? And if I'm going to eat it, don't I need to have it first?" ... which is my way of saying, "yeah, I know. I'm just asking."

devbobo

How did u envised this working from a url perpective ? obviously, cambler.smugmug.com has to show either cheerleading or glamour ?

I might be able to work something if you give me some specific details.

David

cambler

devbobo wrote:

How did u envised this working from a url perpective ? obviously, cambler.smugmug.com has to show either cheerleading or glamour ?

I might be able to work something if you give me some specific details.

David

That's the problem, I think. It would require the ability to accept multiple domain names as host headers - and that's work on SmugMug's part that would generate no additional revenue.

I'd be more than willing to pay for a second account if there were a way to tell SmugMug that I own both accounts so I could have a single accounting interface.

devbobo

cambler wrote:

That's the problem, I think. It would require the ability to accept multiple domain names as host headers - and that's work on SmugMug's part that would generate no additional revenue.

I'd be more than willing to pay for a second account if there were a way to tell SmugMug that I own both accounts so I could have a single accounting interface.

ok, that makes sense. I actually posted this in the feature request thread a little while ago.

Personally, I think it's a feature that could attract pros...that sort of segregation between personal and professional photos or different types of photography in your case.

David

mmcguire

Sorry to revive an old thread, but did any feature like this ever get implemented? I want to do exactly what cambler is asking about.

jfriend

mmcguire wrote: »

Sorry to revive an old thread, but did any feature like this ever get implemented? I want to do exactly what cambler is asking about.

Two separate accounts is the only way to have two separate domains.

mmcguire

Thanks, I was afraid of that. I guess I am about to purchase a third account.