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AllizDogStudios
Nov-13-2007, 10:53 AM
My site is for business and pleasure, but I'd like my clients to not see the pleasure (family and friends) part.

What I was wondering is if I was able to have the main site (www.allizdogstudios.com (http://www.allizdogstudios.com)) point to the main gallery that would have 'Clients', 'Portraiture', 'Events' and 'Prints for Sale' as the only 4 categories that are seen; and then have a url like www.allizdogstudios.com/mylife (http://www.allizdogstudios.com/mylife) only show categories like 'Family', 'Friends', 'Vacations', etc.

Any way to do something like this?

Dna
Nov-13-2007, 09:48 PM
My site is for business and pleasure, but I'd like my clients to not see the pleasure (family and friends) part.

What I was wondering is if I was able to have the main site (www.allizdogstudios.com (http://www.allizdogstudios.com)) point to the main gallery that would have 'Clients', 'Portraiture', 'Events' and 'Prints for Sale' as the only 4 categories that are seen; and then have a url like www.allizdogstudios.com/mylife (http://www.allizdogstudios.com/mylife) only show categories like 'Family', 'Friends', 'Vacations', etc.

Any way to do something like this?Yep, just hide your galleries / Categories off your home page and replace them with links, eg www.allizdogstudios.com/Weddings (http://www.allizdogstudios.com/) to link to your wedding category.

Have a look at my site for an example. www.andrewmurdoch.net, what you can't see is the links such as www.andrewmurdoch.net/sports etc unless you know its there.
The link boxes are just links in the header section of the customisation.


Andrew

coleygm
Nov-14-2007, 09:38 AM
Yep, just hide your galleries / Categories off your home page and replace them with links, eg www.allizdogstudios.com/Weddings (http://www.allizdogstudios.com/) to link to your wedding category.

Have a look at my site for an example. www.andrewmurdoch.net (http://www.andrewmurdoch.net), what you can't see is the links such as www.andrewmurdoch.net/sports (http://www.andrewmurdoch.net/sports) etc unless you know its there.
The link boxes are just links in the header section of the customisation.


Andrew

This is a possible work around sure...but I'm not sure if it answers the real question which I'm interested in as well.

I utilize sub-domains for my different work. So I'd want my sports pictures mounted on one sub domain, my portraits mounted on another sub-domain, etc.... So, how can you have separate homepages?

Ideally, my main website 'www.example.com' would have links to 'sports.example.com', 'portraits.example.com', 'events.example.com' etc... These would then be part of my smug mug site then linking to my categories/galleries....Although i currently don't see a way to do this. I know you can link your smug mug account with your own URL...but how would you link separate categories or galleries to a URL? I need to link my smug mug pages up to these sub domains as i cannot change my main webpage...it's too complex and deals with more than photography.

any help is greatly appreciated.

AllizDogStudios
Nov-14-2007, 10:03 AM
I ended up doing this (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=680961&postcount=2) and it works great. My family can type in www.example.com/family (http://www.example.com/family) and see all the galleries I make under the family category, and my client can go to www.example.com (http://www.example.com) and only see client work.

Thanks!

coleygm
Nov-14-2007, 12:29 PM
I ended up doing this (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=680961&postcount=2) and it works great. My family can type in www.example.com/family (http://www.example.com/family) and see all the galleries I make under the family category, and my client can go to www.example.com (http://www.example.com) and only see client work.

Thanks!

Cool! Thanks as this is even a better work-around i think.

I'd still like to find out if we do have the ability to have multiple home pages without opening separate accounts though...hmmmm

thanks again