Logging in and my custom domain name

[Andrew Gould]

Is there a more direct (and therefore less tedious) way for me to log into my SmugMug site than the way I'm doing it now?

My original address was:
http://andrewgould.smugmug.com/
Then I registered the domain name:
http://www.andrewgouldphotography.com/

The point is that I want to be able to open it as quickly as possible with the latter custom domain name showing in the address bar.

I have my site on my favourites as andrewgouldphotography. I click on this, and it opens with that web address, but with a non logged in view. Then I click on (Powered by) SmugMug at the bottom of the page, and click again on Your Photos, at the top of the following page. The page then opens as andrewgould.smugmug (rather than andrewgouldphotography). I then go to andrewgouldphotography on my favourites again, and my site opens, showing this address in the address bar, but visitor view again. I must go to andrewgouldphotography on my favourites list yet again, and this time I get my site with my custom domain name and my logged in view.

Of course, if I close the web page, I have to go through this all over again.

Can anyone help with this?
Thanks!

[Pupator]

Something in your customization has removed the "login" link from the footer. If it was still there you could:

-Go to: http://www.andrewgouldphotography.com/
-Click on "login" in the footer (you will have been switched to the *.smugmug.com version)
-Put in name and password and click "login"
-Refresh (back to the custom domain version)

edit - you have this in your CSS:

.loginLink {
display:none;
}

[Andrew Gould]

Thanks for the advice on that. I actually removed the login from the footer because I thought it looked cleaner like that. I may well put it back if there's no other solution to this problem, but I'm still wondering if there isn't another way to simplify the login process, leaving my homepage as it is.

[Pupator]

Thanks for the advice on that. I actually removed the login from the footer because I thought it looked cleaner like that. I may well put it back if there's no other solution to this problem, but I'm still wondering if there isn't another way to simplify the login process, leaving my homepage as it is.

I'm not sure I understand what the complaint is then. When you're working on your site why do you care which domain is displayed in the address bar? They're the same site. Once you've logged in with user.smugmug.com all you have to do is refresh the browser and you'll also be logged in a customdomain.com. Most of the extra clicks you're having to do are because you removed the login link from your page. I don't think the page looks any cleaner because it has one less word in the footer - but that's just me.:D

[Andrew Gould]

I'm not sure I understand what the complaint is then. When you're working on your site why do you care which domain is displayed in the address bar? They're the same site. Once you've logged in with user.smugmug.com all you have to do is refresh the browser and you'll also be logged in a customdomain.com. Most of the extra clicks you're having to do are because you removed the login link from your page. I don't think the page looks any cleaner because it has one less word in the footer - but that's just me.:D

I want to have my custom domain name showing in the address bar when I'm working on my site, firstly because I'm paying for it and I like it. I also want it to display when I paste a link to a photo on my separate photoblog or when emailing a link to a private gallery, for example.

I just don't usually see a login box on most personal websites, and think it looks more of a thing that is seen on a forum, etc., but that's just me.

The other point about this is that I'm wondering why it isn't possible to just always remain logged into my website on a particular computer, the way I can with almost any other site where I'm registered. Then it wouldn't be necessary to go through any of this at all.