One of the user's at Defencetalk.com suggested this idea. I don't know if it would be valid or has been requested before but here goes.
I will use my site as an example to keep things in perspective.
Currently, I have this layout:
>MAIN CATOGRY (country / topic based)
>>Sub-category (airforce)
>>>sub-sub-category (fighters)
>>>>cooresponding albums (F-16)
Now, DT has close to 700 albums, some 300 categories. By the time when all is set and done, we will have close to 1000 albums. Thats when trouble comes when someone tries to upload the pictures. Scrolling through that amount of albums isn't fun.
Here is the idea that user suggested when uploading pics....
When you go on the upload page, it should give you atleast different drop down boxes:
Drop down box 1: >MAIN CATOGRY (country / topic based)
Drop down box 2: >>Sub-category (airforce)
Drop Down box 3: >>>sub-sub-category (fighters)
Drop Down box 4: >>>>cooresponding albums (F-16)
When you would select drop down 1, it should populate drop down 2 with sub-categories, when you select a category in drop down 2, it should populate drop down 3 with sub-sub-category, when you select the sub-sub-cat, it should populate the last drop down(#4) with albums that are in there.
I don't know if it makes sense. If not, I do have a html page which demonstrates this idea....
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Thanks to one of the team members at CPG by suggesting a mod for sorting albums and categories very nicely (all 700 of them
) - which DT is currently using to cover come the above issue. Thanks nibbler!