More Smugmug greatness

I mentioned in a post earlier that I had been playing and trying to get my head around integrate all the social media that I seem to be involved with. I have twitter, facebook, blogger and my web site, and to update all of them separately could take hours!

Smugmug, where my site (adamhanlon.com)is hosted have just launched a tool known as smart galleries. By adding keywords to images, it gathers these together in a gallery for you-as virtual images. They also have a "show off" facility that allows you to generate slideshows like the one below automatically!



I've used twitterfeed to gather the feed from this blog, and hopefully to publish it to twitter and facebook.

Embedding slideshows

I've been doing a lot of looking, reading and hopefully learning about the ways that you can integrate blogs, twitter and in this case, my Smugmug web site at adamhanlon.com In particular, wetpixel publisher, Eric Cheng (www.echeng.com) and contributors Cor Bosman (underwa.ter.net/) and Tony Wu (www.tonywublog.com) have unwittingly provided me with ideas and inspiration! Now all I need is time!

Cor has embedded a slideshow of one of his Smugmug galleries, and seeing the results, it looks great. So I thought I would try and do the same! This is a slideshow of a fantastic underwater adventure at the Farne Islands last September, when we were the center of attention for some very rowdy seals! I hope you enjoy it!

Migrating from Wordpress to Blogger

I wasn't happy with the look and feel of the blog being embeded within a frame, rather than being intgtrated into the www.adamhanlon.com sites look and feel.

The smumug support forum on Dgrin is an amazing source of nformation with some incredibly talented and helpful people on it. It is amazing these guys and girls willingly give up their time to help "mugs" like me out!

Anyway, there was a lot of posting about customising a blogger blog-but the options were very limited on Wordpress-so I bit the bullet.

The actual customization went pretty smoothly-just following the excellent instructions on the dgrin forum-then how to get the posts from Wordpress and onto blogger. After a fair ammount of googling and some trial and error, and I found Blog2blog This amazing bit of free software works like a charm-many thanks to it's writer Paul Cooley!

So you will be reading this post on my new blog-I plan to run down the wordpress one over the next few months.Please bear with me while I get the links etc up and running

Too late it's done!

Ok it was easier than I thought! I've still got a few small things to sort out-like getting it aligned correctly, but in essence the blog is now on the smugmug site. Wow!