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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.
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.
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!