Smugmug and Not looking professional

btweller wrote in post #13702060
Another thing to keep in mind is that Smugmug has an API that lets you get at all of your images from a separate website with wrapper libraries in most major programming languages (I've worked with the C# and PHP wrappers in particular).

I'm a web developer who does photography on the side and I built my portfolio site around the Smugmug APIs. It gives me complete control and I'm able to show completely different sets of images on each site, while feeding all of the images from my Smugmug account. For me, doing this was far easier than trying to customize the look and feel of Smugmug through CSS, but that's just because of my lack of CSS skills.

http://brianwellerphot​ography.com/
http://brianweller.smu​gmug.com/

It might be a far stretch for you, but it does give you the ultimate in control over the look and feel of your site.

whoa, that's pretty good. I have to resort to CSS skills, but all I want is something clean and simple. though, i'm surprised not more folks have done what you have. or maybe they have, and just haven't showed it off

I think I'm the only person in the world that can't get past the name itself.

newrecruit wrote in post #13761487
I think I'm the only person in the world that can't get past the name itself.

Your clients never have to know it comes from smugmug, unless they recognize the interface.

randomlinh wrote in post #13756417
whoa, that's pretty good. I have to resort to CSS skills, but all I want is something clean and simple. though, i'm surprised not more folks have done what you have. or maybe they have, and just haven't showed it off

Thank you...I would imagine that not a lot of people have done something similar. It was a fair amount of work to get that put together the way I wanted it to work, and I'm still not 100% to where I want to be with the site yet.

I am not a coder, but was able to use dgrin to customize two different sites with a Wordpress install.

http://folsomvistafoot​ball.com/

http://folsomvistafoot​ball.smugmug.com/

and

http://mattmcguire.com​/

http://photos.mattmcgu​ire.com/

Have you tried Bludomain? They are reasonable and have client galleries with shopping carts --- and they look very professional--- Good Luck

I use Bludomain and have a blog with blogspot, but I am able to connect one with the other via external link-- if that helps at all.

cmchavis wrote in post #13745439
Ha.

I read this and thought to myself - wow, someone other than Brian did this. Then I saw the site names. Doh.

Unrelated - when did you do that Converse shoe shoot?

@mike - I really like the look of your - http://mike.imagesinth​ebackcountry.com

I really need to work on mine.

Thanks! I recently (last night) changed it even more. I have a custom Category/Sub-Category pages pages now and a custom breadcrumb trail. The only thing that looks like Smugmug is the final gallery page. Wish I could change that, but I'm pretty happy with what I have so far.