SmugMug, the premium photo hosting/sharing site, rolled out the new version of its service on Tuesday and while you still can’t follow other SmugMug photographers or join groups or communities, there’s no doubt the looks you can now give your site are really stunning in comparison with what you had before, specially if you have a Basic account, like myself.

I would’ve loved a more social SmugMug, one where interactions with other photographers were easier to achieve, but I guess the site will for now continue to be aimed at pros looking for a place to host and share their portfolios with potential customers. I guess it’s also nice to see the MacAskills and company have a clear road map of where it is they want their company to be headed: mostly a place to host, design and market professional photography websites while also offering the occasional amateur a place online to store and share photos of birthday parties and trips to the beach.

They have made the entire customizing process incredibly easy. Whereas before you needed to get your hands dirty with code in order to have your site look exactly they way you intended, now it’s only a matter of dragging and dropping content blocks and choosing the colors and fonts you want. In other words, if you can use a mouse, you can put together an amazing-looking site in a matter of minutes. It’s that easy, really.

Would you like to give SmugMug a try, no credit card needed, for 14 days and see what happens? Right this way, please.