categorie and sub categorie and more ?

fafarun

Hello,

I'm a new user of smugmug.

I would organize my family photo like that (for exemple)

Family (category)
YEAR (subcategory)
MONTH (subsubcategory)
Gallery_name

But If I'm right, we can just create a subcategory of a category, but not a "subcategory" of a subcategory, like I need?

How can I realise this organisation ?

Thanks.

jfriend

Your options are as follows:

Family
....January 2009
........Gallery 1
........Gallery 2
........Gallery 3
....February 2009
....March 2009

Family
....2009
........January - Gallery 1
........January - Gallery 2
........January - Gallery 3
........February - Gallery x
........February - Gallery y


Family
....2009
........Gallery 1
........Gallery 2
........Gallery 3
........Gallery x
........Gallery y


Family 2009
....January
........Gallery 1
........Gallery 2
........Gallery 3
....February
....March
Family 2010

The general object here is to make it as easy to find what the viewer wants with the fewest number of clicks and the least searching. That typically means you want as few levels as possible and you want no levels with only a couple choices (because that means that level is underutilized) and you want no levels with way too many choices.

If you add CSS to have flexible and stretchy categories/sub-categories (search for "stretchy category" here on dgrin), it's no big deal to have a lot of galleries on one page as long as they are organized logically.

For example, this page could have been done with more levels (if Smugmug supported them), but it works quite well the way it is even though there are 30 galleries on the page because it's stretchy and because the galleries are organized into a logical order. Everyone can find what they want without an extra level.

deckeda

How?

jfriend wrote:

If you add CSS to have flexible and stretchy categories/sub-categories (search for "stretchy category" here on dgrin), it's no big deal to have a lot of galleries on one page as long as they are organized logically.

For example, this page could have been done with more levels (if Smugmug supported them), but it works quite well the way it is even though there are 30 galleries on the page because it's stretchy and because the galleries are organized into a logical order. Everyone can find what they want without an extra level.

How was that page created? I see a category, subcategory, right? And then for the galleries within the subcategory page further divisions (General, 4th Grade etc.) and then each gallery's name below it?

Even the simpler http://friend.smugmug.com/Sports page escapes me?

jfriend

deckeda wrote:

How was that page created? I see a category, subcategory, right? And then for the galleries within the subcategory page further divisions (General, 4th Grade etc.) and then each gallery's name below it?

Even the simpler http://friend.smugmug.com/Sports page escapes me?

At the time I wrote my earlier message, these were simple categories and sub-categories with stretchy CSS. Since then, I've written a custom script that adds the extra level of organization to the category and sub-category pages.