Smugmug for Multiple Purposes

[mishnogram]

As my collection of family and hobby shots keep increasing, I'm realizing that not everyone that wants to see the pictures of the kids wants to look at other shots that I think look nice (could be of a tree or that old car sitting behind my father in law's house). I was wondering if anyone had done something creative to separate personal gallery type photos and family shots? I know that they could be put under different categories etc but I was hoping to get some more elegant solutions other than getting a second smugmug account.

Thanks for any responses.

Min

[Andy]

:wave

Try a 2nd hompage?

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=47912

:D

[devbobo]

Hi Min,

As it turns out, I am working on a hack that would be right up your alley :D

However, at this stage it's still in development, and I don't see it being released until the new SM beta (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=51218) stuff has been released as I am waiting on some improved functionality from an update yui (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui).

Cheers,

David

[Stustaff]

Another option that works great for me is create different categories and then buy a couple of external addresses that link to the different categories! you can even branf the categories differently.

for example on my one smugmug account I can do this

www.stuandju.co.uk (http://www.stuandju.co.uk) has a link in the menu bar called galleries which goes to here http://stuarthill.smugmug.com/Family as you will see the 'branding' is that of my homepage and access is only to my personal pics.

www.belperphoto.co.uk (http://www.belperphoto.co.uk) again has a link in the menu bar which goes to http://stuarthill.smugmug.com/Photography again 'branding' is the same.

You could make your personal url's link straight to the relevant category.

If that makes sense or doesnt make sense! and you want a better explanation or what I did to set it up let me know.

[mishnogram]

Thanks for all the help guys, I will definitely be on the lookout for the hack.

I'll keep working on it and see what I can come up with, I'll have to remember my old days of html coding again. Who would have thought that a new hobby would bring back memories of an old one.

Thanks again,

Min