I’ve Decided to Keep Smugmug

Yesterday I was conversing with a friend that recently signed up with zenfolio.  I saw his galleries and was very impressed.  I’ve been a smug mugger (pro) for over a year and couldn’t remember why I originally choose smug over zen.  So today I revisited my smug account.

Smugmug is a great gallery tool.  I really like the customization available and spent time today improving mine.  I recall that a year ago the customization was not nearly as user friendly.  As of today, my smugmug account (lifeandlens.smugmug.com) has a very complimentary “look and feel” to my primary site.

I also refined the organization of my galleries.  I found this customization to be quite easy.  I also created two pricing mechanisms and applied them universally to my galleries.

I did post two questions today to the smugmug help site and both were answered quite quickly (less than 3 hours).  Though the second response wasn’t very helpful.  I’ll try to be more clear about my questions.

It would take a lot more time to do a side by side comparison, I’d love to see someone do that effectively, but for now I say “Smugmug rules!”

- Tom

New Site for Life and Lens Photography

Today marks the launch of the new www.lifeandlens.com website.  It features a much cleaner look, news on the home page, and a new design for upcoming galleries.  Here is the home page showing the final image of a 26 image slideshow.

The NEW Life and Lens Website!

The site was crafted using Sitegrinder 2.  Sitegrinder works in conjunction with Photoshop and turns “layer comps” in to separate web pages.  I was able to design and build the entire new site in only 2 hours and 15 minutes.  Wow!

If anyone is interested in my thoughts about Sitegrinder, definately reach out and contact me.

Enjoy the new site!

- Tom