zenfolio or smugmug for my personal site?

Up in the air between Zenfolio or Smugmug for my personal site. Not looking to make a pro site, but looking for something to present my photos and allow people to purchase prints through the site.
what is the easiest, nicest presentation, etc... between the two?
many thanks

I haven't seen any real difference in ease of use etc. between the two. The big difference appears to be that you can customize SmugMug and you really can't do much to differentiate your Zenfolio site from anyone else's.

I have mine with smugmug and would reccomend them (of course!!), but my advice would be to try both first, they both offer free trials, try them and see which suits you best.

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Tim

Thanks. It seems the backend is nicer on zenfolio while smug mug really lets your make ur site look unique.
Still up in the air of which to do. this will take awhile..haha

FWIW, if it matters to you (as of my when I signed up) Smugmug doesn't let you associate a coupon code to your gallery. I wanted this to give customers credits, which is why I went with Zenfolio.

I use SmugMug for both of my sites and highly recommend them.

Sites are here:
http://www.timnosenzo.​com
http://www.timnosenzop​hoto.com

In smugmug, can you use different themes etc for different galleries, but keep your own logo across the top of the page?
You can't do that in Zenfolio (which I wish I knew before commiting to them). Can't put a logo up at all.

Mike

dinny66 wrote in post #7659486
In smugmug, can you use different themes etc for different galleries, but keep your own logo across the top of the page?
You can't do that in Zenfolio (which I wish I knew before commiting to them). Can't put a logo up at all.

Mike

Yes, if you have a Power or Pro account, you can do quite a bit of customizing, including a custom header.

I signed up for a trial Power account. WOW that's complicated to customise.
I don't want to be a web programmer, or learn html or css. Looks like a non starter, shame.

I think I am going to go with the Unlimited account with Zenfolio. Seems to be easiest for what I want to do

dinny66 wrote in post #7660512
I signed up for a trial Power account. WOW that's complicated to customise.
I don't want to be a web programmer, or learn html or css. Looks like a non starter, shame.

It's really not that bad, and people are willing to help, but it does take some input from the user.

dinny66 wrote in post #7660512
I signed up for a trial Power account. WOW that's complicated to customise. I don't want to be a web programmer, or learn html or css. Looks like a non starter, shame.

You don't really have to be. There's a TON of help available in the forums, and a lot of cut-and-paste customizations.

That sounds encouraging! TBF, I did manage to get a custom header on smugmug so that's a good start.
Just have to work on it a bit.
Hope the OP is having good luck.
I like the fact that smugmug has a supplier who provides prints to the UK, albeit a bit pricey.

well, persistance seems to be the key here. Having now used both, I found Zenfolio easier to customise quickly, but have found you run out of options quite quickly. Smugmug took more time to get into, but seems to be much more customisable in terms of both gallery styles and colours.
I can see why the OP raisde the question.
Would appreciate any comments though:

Smugmug gallery

Zenfolio gallery

Still a long way from being finshed, but much slicker than pbase.

Many thanks, apologies to the OP, not meaning to hijack your thread, but hopefully contribute to it.

Mike

So I decided to go with Zenfolio b/c it's easier to do what i want to do for the time being (show off some galleries, and basically use it as a storage for my full size images so I have an extra copy in case my external hard drive crashes)

For customization, smugmug really lets you make a very unique website but that might be later down the road for me

Anyways, here is my zenfolio site: www.ryanomiller.com

take a look and let me know what you think so far... very early in the process