The layout, design, and overall look and feel of your photo site all play a huge role in the first impression you make on visitors. That’s why we give you complete control over how your site is designed on SmugMug. 

Note: Not all features mentioned below may be available on all account types. Check our account comparison chart if you’re unsure about which features are available to you.

If you’re a pro photographer or anyone else who takes photos for a business, customization is also the most powerful way to bring your brand to the forefront and give a clean, organized, put-together appearance. Nothing says, “I’d hire that!” more than a clean, beautiful, unified look and feel.

Here are some examples of beautifully beautifully customized SmugMug sites:

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‍How do I customize on SmugMug?

You’ve got a few options ranging from "I don't have time for more than a few clicks" to “I'm all in." But we promise you’ll love the way your site looks no matter how deep you dive.

Contact our Support Heroes if you’ve got additional questions or if you just need a helping hand.

Themes, designs, and content blocks.

These are the building blocks of SmugMug. All SmugMug accounts can choose from dozens of beautiful designs that bring your website to life and suit virtually any mood or palette. Additionally, all SmugMug owners can add, remove, or swap content blocks on the homepage, giving you endless configurations for the first photos, videos, and words your visitors will see.

Power, Portfolio, and Pro accounts have additional options to change the look and feel of the site, including modifying and creating completely custom themes. Changing the overall design gives you different layouts that change the location of essential features like a navigation bar, thumbnails, your cover photo, and your profile photo. The best part is you can create several versions of the same website using different designs, then swap between them.

CSS and HTML.

If you’re not a beginner or want to create more powerful tweaks, you can use your own CSS and HTML to personalize your theme or make changes to specific pages on your site.

To have your code apply across your whole site, look for the Advanced tab under your theme options where you can add your own CSS. To have your code apply to only a single page or gallery, drag and drop an HTML or CSS content block onto any page of your site and add your code there.

Need help? We’ve got cut-and-paste code shared by our in-house customization experts as well as tweaks shared by fellow SmugMug users like you in our Digital Grin customization forum.