I'm creating a archive site and it will have a lot of albums. Do I create a category first and then albums in the categories?
Example
Drivers
- Drivers Name
- Video
- Photos
Main things will videos and photos.
I was thinking the category would be Main Category :Drivers
Then the sub would be the drivers name and in the sub make 2 albums called Photo's & Videos.
Not sure what would be a clean way to do this without making it too confusing or messy.
Of course the answer to something like this is 'it depends'...
What you have will certainly work - but is it the best for what you need?
Some thoughts/comments.. No right/wrong answers - just have to determine what your needs are and match that.
I assume there will be other categories besides Drivers?
If so - a good way to break it down... If not (the entire gallery is drivers) - then its a layer you don't need...
You indicated an archive site with a lot of pictures/videos...
How many (estimate) photos would you expect a driver to have?
If a large number - will users be able to find the pictures they want without further breakdowns like year, event/race, etc to be able to get to what they want to see.
Take a look at
greggallery.gmcdesign.com for some ideas... I have a wide range of photos - over 28,000 - and different ways of breaking them down...
'Bil Krauss Music Weekend' is a once a year event - so just the main category, and an album for each year.
'Sporting Events' is a larger category - subcategories for each organization (local sports club, NASCAR, school) - then albums for each team (club/school) or event (NASCAR Race).
'R/C Flying' has a category for each major event, with albums for each year...
'Skymasters' has a lot more events - so its own category, subcat by year, then albums for events within the year...
For actually implementing - I find it easiest to create my category structure - then add albums to the categories, then upload and batch add pictures... But can be done in almost any order. (album must exist to batch add pics... But albums can be assigned to a category and categories moved under other categories at any time.)
A hint if your folder structure doesn't match your album structure... (ie - in Skymasters category, I have up to a dozen albums per year - but wanted less folders - so only 1 per year for skymasters events...) Upload the pics for one album - batch add them... Upload the photos for next album to same folder - batch add them to their album... Etc... Batch add is smart enough to auto select only the photos that aren't already in an album so you don't have to sort/select again...
Hope that helps...