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For a paid site, I would go with SmugMug as well. I'm throwing around the idea, just to see if people wanted to purchase anything, but I'd hate to put money into this if no one buys anything. I guess that's the risk you take.
I have been looking at smugmug also. Not that I think people will buy my pictures but just to have seperate galleries and unlimited storage for $150 a year is pretty cheap. If the others using it feel up to it link your homepage there so we can check out how you set it up and your galleries
For the OP - I'd still argue that Picasa is the best solution for her, over smugmug or otherwise. It provides an easy-to-use software interface to edit and upload photos to albums, and it's 100% free. If she's just uploading snapshots and success stories for her dog adoptions, I can't imagine she's concerned about people stealing images. As an adoption agency, I'd think you would want to keep as much money available for the dogs, and not tied up in smugmug annual fees (even if it covers just a bag or two of dog food)
Also, if you do a google search, picasa has a built in option to create RSS feeds, here's a link from the picasa FAQs about it: Creating custom RSS feeds - Picasa Help
To the OP, in thinking about your situation, I checked over the options on Photobucket. The site does allow for descriptions to be entered for each photo and you can maintain albums on the site.
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If you have a SmugMug Pro account, check out the DigitalGrin Customization Forums. There are several threads explaining how to set up the layout I have. Just be aware that a lot of the information is going to be in web design language for Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and HTML.
The header design was actually done in Photoshop using about seven or eight layers, one for each of the photos, one for each of the frames around the photos, and two more for the wording. I kept the master file in Photoshop format, flattened the image and saved it as a PNG. The PNG is what I use on the site.
The slide show I have set up is actually a "call" within the design of the main page to a hidden gallery within my account where I keep all the images.
I have been looking at smugmug also. Not that I think people will buy my pictures but just to have seperate galleries and unlimited storage for $150 a year is pretty cheap.
I haven't looked at Smugmug but a quick look at the link provided and I'd suggest Coppermine or Gallery are going to be in the same boat. I haven't used either in quite a while so I'm not up to date on what they offer.
If you already have your own domain and hosting that supports PHP and Mysql you can download them for free... Both of those features are very common, actually it would be odd if you didn't have them.
One big benefit is you're doing everything in house.
Best I have been able to come up with so far is this: bydand photo using the "easy customizer" which I really don't like, but I am severely limited by lack of CSS language knowledge. I'll have to poke around the digital grin link you gave and see if that clears up some of the "hocus pocus" factor for me.
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