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I'm switching to SmugMug

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:08 am
by Snow Nymph
Snow Nymph's SmugMug link: http://snownymph.smugmug.com/


I have been pretty disappointed in Webshots, so SnowDude got me signed up with SmugMug. =D> It'll take time for me to transfer photos over, so I'll keep the webshots accounts til they ask for more $$. I've got 7 webshots accounts that I'm paying for right now, which are listed at the bottom of my SM page. Plus those without webshots accounts won't get those annoying ads! I was looking at someone's photos from another computer and was not logged in, and it was frustrating with the pop-ups and ads, so I quit looking. :shedevil That's when I realized how bad it was, so I've switched!

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 6:42 pm
by hikerduane
I like viewing photos from SmugMug because they load faster on my slow phone lines at home, must be because of the lack of ads. However I don't care to spend much money so I have nothing now after getting mad at the udder place when I tried doing an upgrade and had a toolbar installed which I didn't want but I guess I could have gone the old way and not installed there stuff. Oh well, I don't have that many photos to show.

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 8:48 pm
by ridgeline
Snowy, can you transfer photos from web shots to the new site? Or are you doing it from your own files?

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 9:18 pm
by Trailtrekker06
SN- Looks good, I'm gonna fill both my webshots accts, then switch. The pics looks so much better on Smugmug!

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 11:09 am
by wingding
SN: You're smugmug account looks really good. I've had my smugmug account for 11 months now and I'm almost done moving over the one webshot account I had - I've been really slow about it. I still need to add the captions to most of the pictures I've moved over. I did a back-up of webshots to my harddrive and I've been loading the pictures from there (they are not original size, but it makes it faster that way). When you back-up your webshots photos they give you and index that includes the captions that went with the pictures.

I'm really happy with smugmug - it's really nice to be able to customize it. I wish I knew more of the language needed to do more customization. Maybe when I get the final webshots photos moved I'll work on learning some of that stuff.

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:31 pm
by Snow Nymph
Luckily I saved the photos I used on webshots with captions on my hard drive, so it should be easier to transfer from there. I just have to find time to do it. The older photos don't have captions. '2snownymph' expires in April, so I'll start transferring that account. I started backing up the webshots accounts. SmugMug looks so much nicer, and NO ADS OR POP-UPS!!


edited because what I wrote didn't make sense the first time.

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:04 pm
by Shawn
I agree with tyhe other comments. Your smugmug account makes all of those nice photos just that much nicer to view!