the "hacking" link

audi · January 4, 2006

I never thought much of it until a recent visitor alerted me of the "hacking" link in the smugmug footer. She didnt quite understand how to take it. Thinking about it from her point of view, I really cant blame her.

Imagine being a buyer in the shopping cart section of a website. You are about to disclose sensitive information such as your address and credit card number. You look at the footer on your screen and see "hacking" amongst a list of other links. Is the use of this internet sensitive word really necessary? Or, atleast, is there a way to change the footer on the shopping cart page? It just doesnt seem professional and though it hasnt happened to me, I fear it has the potential to turn off future customers.

What do you all think?

Andy · January 4, 2006

audi wrote:

I never thought much of it until a recent visitor alerted me of the "hacking" link in the smugmug footer. She didnt quite understand how to take it. Thinking about it from her point of view, I really cant blame her.

Imagine being a buyer in the shopping cart section of a website. You are about to disclose sensitive information such as your address and credit card number. You look at the footer on your screen and see "hacking" amongst a list of other links. Is the use of this internet sensitive word really necessary? Or, atleast, is there a way to change the footer on the shopping cart page? It just doesnt seem professional and though it hasnt happened to me, I fear it has the potential to turn off future customers.

What do you all think?

Hi, audi <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/wave.gif" border="0" alt="" > thanks for posting! It's part of our culture - to foster hacks and apps. We've got a very active SmugMug hacking community, and they've come up with some great stuff.

I see you've turned OFF the big SmugMug footer for your site, via your customization - and that's great - it removes the "hacking" link from your site.

BTW - for anyone reading this, it's control panel>customize> and check the radio button for "show SmugMug Footer" to "NO" -- GOTCHA -- you must have something, anything in your footer for this to work, so if you don't have a custom footer, just put in the Footer box.

cabbey · January 4, 2006

Andy wrote:

I see you've turned OFF the big SmugMug footer for your site, via your customization - and that's great - it removes the "hacking" link from your site.

That won't impact the shopping cart though, will it? i.e. after spending time in Audi's site, and picking some images to buy, they'll be linked to the cart, and it will still have that. (I actually had to answer this very same question from the grandparents, who thought my pages had been hacked.)

Andy · January 5, 2006

cabbey wrote:

That won't impact the shopping cart though, will it? i.e. after spending time in Audi's site, and picking some images to buy, they'll be linked to the cart, and it will still have that. (I actually had to answer this very same question from the grandparents, who thought my pages had been hacked.)

It will not impact the shopping cart, correct. Thanks so much for the feedback, audi and cabbey

Arsenicson · March 10, 2007

Andy wrote:

Hi, audi <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/wave.gif" border="0" alt="" > thanks for posting! It's part of our culture - to foster hacks and apps. We've got a very active SmugMug hacking community, and they've come up with some great stuff.

I see you've turned OFF the big SmugMug footer for your site, via your customization - and that's great - it removes the "hacking" link from your site.

BTW - for anyone reading this, it's control panel>customize> and check the radio button for "show SmugMug Footer" to "NO" -- GOTCHA -- you must have something, anything in your footer for this to work, so if you don't have a custom footer, just put in the Footer box.

Strangely, it did not work for me. The new footer appears, but the old one is still below it, and the radio button to remove it doesn't make any effect. Some help please?
arsenicson.smugmug.com

Andy · March 10, 2007

Arsenicson wrote:

Strangely, it did not work for me. The new footer appears, but the old one is still below it, and the radio button to remove it doesn't make any effect. Some help please?
arsenicson.smugmug.com

Hi <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/wave.gif" border="0" alt="" > and welcome! You essentially duped the footer with this:

<div id="arsenicsonFooter">
	<p align="center"><font color="#626262">powered by</font> <a class="nav" href="http://www.smugmug.com/">
	<font color="#B7B7B1">SmugMug</font></a><font color="#B7B7B1"></span> </font>
	<font color="#626262">|</font> <span class="cartlink_footer">	<a class="nav" href="http://www.smugmug.com/cart/">
	<font color="#B7B7B1">shopping cart</font></a> 	</span>
	<font color="#626262">| All photos © Anton Y. Kovalenko</font>

If you want your copyright, sure just put that inside it's own div in your footer html.

Holler if you need more help?

Arsenicson · March 10, 2007

Andy wrote:
Hi <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/wave.gif" border="0" alt="" > and welcome! You essentially duped the footer with this:
<div id="arsenicsonFooter">
 powered by <a class="nav" href="http://www.smugmug.com/">
 SmugMug</a> 
 | <a class="nav" href="http://www.smugmug.com/cart/">
 shopping cart</a> 
 | All photos © Anton Y. Kovalenko
If you want your copyright, sure just put that inside it's own div in your footer html.

Holler if you need more help?

Well, i guess i do need more help

because i thought i just DID include everything in a separate div in the footer. I even tried to close it with /div below everything else i have there so it will all belong to that custom div, assuming that doing so will leave nothing for the standard footer and help it disappear

As i understood from what you've posted above, the standard footer should be gone, and only mine remain - that's what i want. <img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6029383/emoji/mwink.gif" border="0" alt="" >

Or are you saying that in fact the standard footer will remain no matter what, and i only can add a copyright of mine above or below it?

UPDATE

I guess i've figured it out, please correct me if i'm wrong. The smugmug footer remains in any case, but may be adjusted, and I can just add whatever necessary to it. Well, that's ok, i've managed to get something i'm satisfied with. If there are more options please tell me.

Andy · March 10, 2007

Arsenicson wrote:

I guess i've figured it out, please correct me if i'm wrong. The smugmug footer remains in any case, but may be adjusted, and I can just add whatever necessary to it. Well, that's ok, i've managed to get something i'm satisfied with. If there are more options please tell me.

More options? The options are really limitless

What did you have in mind?

Arsenicson · March 11, 2007

Andy wrote:

More options? The options are really limitless What did you have in mind?

currently - to pay for a Pro, fill in the contents and see what happens

guttman · September 3, 2007

More tricky...

Andy wrote:

Hi, audi thanks for posting! It's part of our culture - to foster hacks and apps. We've got a very active SmugMug hacking community, and they've come up with some great stuff.

I see you've turned OFF the big SmugMug footer for your site, via your customization - and that's great - it removes the "hacking" link from your site.

BTW - for anyone reading this, it's control panel>customize> and check the radio button for "show SmugMug Footer" to "NO" -- GOTCHA -- you must have something, anything in your footer for this to work, so if you don't have a custom footer, just put in the Footer box.

Hey Andy!
OK, I did this but I would like to have a more discrete one, something like this:
http://transtrum.smugmug.com/ - with no shopping cart, no feeds logo etc. clean.
Currently mine is a bit more pronounced - you can take a look at my site: guttman.smugmug.com
10x for your time!
Chen

Andy · September 3, 2007

guttman wrote:

Hey Andy!
OK, I did this but I would like to have a more discrete one, something like this:
http://transtrum.smugmug.com/ - with no shopping cart, no feeds logo etc. clean.
Currently mine is a bit more pronounced - you can take a look at my site: guttman.smugmug.com
10x for your time!
Chen

Hi, check the customizing FAQ:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/customize-faq.mg

Look for the footer faq

Allen · September 3, 2007

guttman wrote:

Hey Andy!
OK, I did this but I would like to have a more discrete one, something like this:
http://transtrum.smugmug.com/ - with no shopping cart, no feeds logo etc. clean.
Currently mine is a bit more pronounced - you can take a look at my site: guttman.smugmug.com
10x for your time!
Chen

Add this to your CSS and see if it's what you want.

.cartlink_footer,
.loginLink,
#feeds{display:none;}

#footer a.nav {color:#666;}

the "hacking" link

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