If your passion is hangliding, bulldogs or Zanzibar, you're in luck: communities help you bond with other odd people like you.
What are they?
A way for you to associate your bulldog galleries with other bulldog lover's galleries. Bulldog fanatics can see — in one place — galleries from you, your friends, clubs, shows, etc.
Communities can be customized with the look and feel of other websites to seamlessly power the photo galleries of message forums, blogs, clubs, etc. Example.
Joining one
When you're logged in, you'll see a link to photo communities in the Homepage tab of your Control Panel. (The photo communities box can be moved to your homepage, if you like.)
Click to join or create one.
You'll see a directory of all SmugMug communities. Each will have text beside them saying join, invite only, or leave. Invite only means you'll need to finagle an invitation from the owner.
Associating galleries
When viewing one of your galleries, click the Customize Gallery button. You'll see a page of options. At the bottom, the communities you joined will appear in a pull-down menu. Choose one.
You'll also be given the option to have your gallery take on the look and feel of the community, provided the community has one.
Note: Galleries associated with a community will either be smug default, or community default. They will not show your customization.
Tell me about creating and managing communities
The fine print
SmugMug reserves the right to disallow community names for any reason, at its sole discretion, effective immediately. We also reserve the right to terminate communities for any reason, at our sole discretion, effective immediately.
