Smugmug Badge - or the lack of it

There is no other place on the web that takes as good care of your photos as Smugmug.

That said, while I am a very happy Smugmug customer, I am very disappointed that Smugmug doesn't offer a Flickr style badge. I have a pro Smugmug account and it sucks that there is no badge available for me to easily integrate my photos on my blog through javascript. Worse, the RSS feeds generated by Smugmug aren't focused towards photos rather they have a lot of junk text that I really don't care about.

Some thoughts for Smugmug:
- How about creating a feed that just has photos in it, minus all the noise?
- How about having a feed that displays random photos from my gallery, not just the recent photos?
- Smugmug's pro account is pricey (I am not saying it's not worth the price) so at least the pro members should be allowed to have a Flickr style badge.
- How about putting all the description noise about "user updated gallery" and gallery descriptions incorporated as alt and title tags?

I used Rss to Javascript site to display my photos for now but frankly, the presentation looks very crappy, or should I say not up to Smugmug standard. A badge can act as a marketing tool for Smugmug if it does photos justice in presentation.

I am going to send these suggestions to Smugmug's founder Don McAskill. He cares a lot about his customers so hopefully it is just a matter of time that he will have a Smugmug badge that looks as gorgeous as Smugmug galleries. BTW, I am a big fan of Don McAskill and his work and recently wrote about him on my other blog.

For now, I am thinking of one day writing a quick badge myself. It should be a couple hours of hacking. Since badge creation is generally quite easy, I wonder why hasn't this been accomplished yet by Smugmug.