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Confused about Categories and Subcategories? Don't go nuts about it. It's just a new method of organizing.
Put photos in galleries. Those galleries can then be organized with categories and subcategories.
Category > subcategory > gallery > photos
You can display either galleries or categories on your SmugMug homepage.
Say you are a wedding shooter. Simply create a new subcategory for each wedding. So, Smith-Jones gets a subcategory. In that Subcategory, you can now add galleries, for each part of the wedding: Before, The Ceremony, Formals, Reception, etc. The way it looks is just like this:
Here is the subcategories page, all your weddings would be here. Click on one of the wedding couples, and you can see how the galleries are underneath. Clear as mud?
Do you have better ideas - or different ways of organizing? Share them here!
I think you should be able to go ass many levels deep as you need to. For example, if you only really want one main gallery, say...Wildlife & Nature. Within that, you have categories, Bird, Animals, Scenics, etc. Then, in addition to those three categories, lets say I have a fourth....called Stock. This contains a mish mosh of all the photographs, maybe some of the ones I wouldn't neccesarily want to sell as prints, but wanted to make available to publishers. If you open the Stock gallery, I could have many subcategories like Alaska, Japan, Florida, Galapagos, etc.
The way it looks now, I am cut off from creating new sub-categories within that one. In other words, there is a limit.
I don't think there should be one, or at least make it reasonable.
Posted by Anonymous at Jun 03, 2009 12:26
It seems a little confusing to me because it feels backwards to me...like it was designed and implemented by a database designer with reverse thought processing.
I envision this:
Gallery (as in art gallery-the large building where you go to see Collections)
Collection (a group of Albums)
Album (a group of Photos)
Photos (individual)
The gallery is where I'd (being a sports photog) would choose, perhaps the sport, FOOTBALL
Within the FOOTBALL Gallery, I may have a Collection of leagues like High School, Youth, Flag, etc...
Within the Collection, say High School...I'd have a Album of each team or game I shot.
Within the album, obviously would be the photos.
Really nothing different than what exists now except sthe nomenclature. When you have a Gallery and a category (not to mention a sub-category) it's tough for the user to determine if the gallery or the category is the larger of the two which leaves the sub-category in the dark as well because you don't know the answer to the first question.
Scott