Smugmug for Multiple Purposes

mishnogram

As my collection of family and hobby shots keep increasing, I'm realizing that not everyone that wants to see the pictures of the kids wants to look at other shots that I think look nice (could be of a tree or that old car sitting behind my father in law's house). I was wondering if anyone had done something creative to separate personal gallery type photos and family shots? I know that they could be put under different categories etc but I was hoping to get some more elegant solutions other than getting a second smugmug account.

Thanks for any responses.

Min

Andy

Try a 2nd hompage?

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=47912

devbobo

Hi Min,

As it turns out, I am working on a hack that would be right up your alley

However, at this stage it's still in development, and I don't see it being released until the new SM beta stuff has been released as I am waiting on some improved functionality from an update yui.

Cheers,

David

Stustaff

Another option that works great for me is create different categories and then buy a couple of external addresses that link to the different categories! you can even branf the categories differently.

for example on my one smugmug account I can do this

www.stuandju.co.uk has a link in the menu bar called galleries which goes to here http://stuarthill.smugmug.com/Family as you will see the 'branding' is that of my homepage and access is only to my personal pics.

www.belperphoto.co.uk again has a link in the menu bar which goes to http://stuarthill.smugmug.com/Photography again 'branding' is the same.

You could make your personal url's link straight to the relevant category.

If that makes sense or doesnt make sense! and you want a better explanation or what I did to set it up let me know.

mishnogram

Thanks for all the help guys, I will definitely be on the lookout for the hack.

I'll keep working on it and see what I can come up with, I'll have to remember my old days of html coding again. Who would have thought that a new hobby would bring back memories of an old one.

Thanks again,

Min