integrating my blogger style with smugmug

Jace

i recently purchased my own domain and have been publishing from blogger to this site. i would really like to get my smugmug site to look like my blogger style sheet. is it possible to integrate the template style sheets i'm using at blogger with the branding i have on smumug?

my site is jacecole.com

thanks for the help

Ben

Jace wrote:

i recently purchased my own domain and have been publishing from blogger to this site. i would really like to get my smugmug site to look like my blogger style sheet. is it possible to integrate the template style sheets i'm using at blogger with the branding i have on smumug?

my site is jacecole.com

thanks for the help

Hi Jace,

While there is no smooth process to just copy across, it should be possible without too much pain. The first place to start is this help section:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/custom-colors

That should cover all the relevant stylesheet elements you will need to change.

The first (and most noticeable) change is the background image. You can find that code near the very bottom of the help section:

Body { Background-image: url('http://www.blogblog.com/dots_dark/bg_minidots.gif'); }

If you right click on your blogger page and "View Source", it will open up the source code for your page. This can be intimidating at first, but they were nice enough to put the stylesheet elements in easy to read sections right at the top.

One of the things that won't seem as obvious is the background color of the tables on your page and the smugmug page. This code will cover that:

.offshadowbg { background-image: url('http://www.blogblog.com/dots_dark/bg_minidots2.gif') ;}

You will want to put in a header (text, banner image, whatever) to remove the smugmug stuff from the top:
http://www.smugmug.com/help/create-photo-album

And you will want to change the text colors and link colors (which you should find reference to on the custom colors help section I pasted near the top).

But that should get you started.

Good luck!

-Ben

Jace

Awesome advice Ben... I'm hoping to get a start on this tonight when I have some time to sit down and start playing.

I'll report back with my results!

DoctorIt

I'll be curious to see your results too... one of my main uses for smugmug is to host my daily photo project. "Blogger" style would work well for this.

...Hmmm, how much is that upgrade to power user???