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unknownphotography

Hey everyone,
I am a serious amateur photographer who is graduating college this year. I have maintained my website www.unknownphotography.com for the past 3 years through fortune city hosting. I was attracted to smugmug for the potential of expanding my hobby into a business. Now, i just have to get started. I dont want to jump ahead before i know what im doing. This seemed to be a good place to come for advice so...
First, i canceled my hosting through fortune city, but my domain registration is still through them.
I would like to start setting up a smug mug pro account using the domain. Where do i begin?? Thank you in advance.

docwalker

Hi, first let me say welcome.

For the domain name, you can either keep it at Fortune City, or transfer it to another domain host like GoDaddy.com

We have instructions for setting the domain up here: http://www.smugmug.com/help/professional-accounts

If you need help getting it set up, please send us an email on the help desk and we can help you get that working. http://www.smugmug.com/help/emailreal

To set up a pro account, start here http://www.smugmug.com/pro

We offer free 14 day trials that do not require a credit card.

--Doc

Photobycate

Hi,

Welcome. I think you will enjoy using SmugMug. I just finished my 14 day trial and have signed up for the pro account for the year. I like the ease of use on this website, not having had a website of my own (yet). I also feel comfortable using the forums, lots of great help and nice people. I have about 9 galleries posted so far and over 600 hits, no sales yet, but they are forth coming. I also sell stock photography on other websites but wanted to sell some prints as well. So far so good.

Regards,
Cate:D