Hey Im Becky, new photographer...new fan of smugmug... I've had a vision in my head of what I want my photography website to look like...it seems that Mike Lane Designs has it. Im sure you've seen it already, there have been a few requests here for help so im sorry for being redundant. Any suggestions on how to get that clean, sleek look. Any help would be wonderful!!! Thank you!!

Originally Posted by MissB Hey Im Becky, new photographer...new fan of smugmug... I've had a vision in my head of what I want my photography website to look like...it seems that Mike Lane Designs has it. Im sure you've seen it already, there have been a few requests here for help so im sorry for being redundant. Any suggestions on how to get that clean, sleek look. Any help would be wonderful!!! Thank you!!

First thing anyone will ask is a link to your site.

I can see that you will be my hero :) my disaster of a site right now is.

http://www.rgonzalez.smugmug.com

the site I would like to see set up even in its closest capacity...which would be a single large photo or slide show.... simple text name and menu. Clean, clean, clean and black. Oh, did I mention clean?

Originally Posted by MissB I can see that you will be my hero :) my disaster of a site right now is. http://www.rgonzalez.smugmug.com the site I would like to see set up even in its closest capacity...which would be a single large photo or slide show.... simple text name and menu. Clean, clean, clean and black. Oh, did I mention clean?

Here's a perfect place to start. Put in what you can, can't hurt nuthin' and
makes it easier to troubleshoot if something goes wrong.

This tutorial will explain and guide you through the process of setting up
your Power- or Pro-smugmug account with a custom header, navbar,
homepage with a slideshow but no galleries/categories and a separate page
for the galleries/categories.
http://dgrin.smugmug.com/gallery/2160039

Oh my goodness, thank you so much...I am off to bed now...but I can't wait to get started tomorrow!

I have a few more questions...well im almost certian this wont be the last...lol..
see here... http://www.rgonzalez.smugmug.com what i've done so far... biggest complaint is the

"RGonzalez's Home" and "map" above my slide show... also... how to I change my footer to to just say "© R.GonzalezPHOTOGRAPHY 2009 All Rights Reserved" Instead of all the smug mug links?

What do you think so far? Thanks BTW for your help barb

Originally Posted by MissB biggest complaint is the "RGonzalez's Home" and "map" above my slide show... also... how to I change my footer to to just say "© R.GonzalezPHOTOGRAPHY 2009 All Rights Reserved" Instead of all the smug mug links?

You can switch to the small smugmug footer, but you can't remove it entirely. See # 16 in the customization FAQ at http://www.smugmug.com/help/customize-faq.

You can put your copyright statement in the footer, either surrounded by <center> and </center> tags, or formatted with CSS.

To remove RGonzalez's Home, see # 23 in the customization FAQ. And the info for removing the map this button is in # 22 in the customization FAQ.

--- Denise

Oh wow that was fast thank you! By the way I hoped you don't mind, I paid a visit to your blog... very talented I must say... I think the ice is the face of one of those vintage jockey statues...I will see if I can find a photo of one :)