Arranging Categories & Galleries Nightmare

RogeriousRogerious Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
edited July 24, 2010 in SmugMug Support
Okay. I'm struggling with moving my categories where they should be and my galleries where they should be. I've created and deleted, moved, shifted...and I can't get anything to work, no matter how much I've read in the Help site. But I'm about ready to hang it all and start from scratch.

My goal is the following...top most category "Photography". Below that two categories "Collections" and "Home Life". Under "Collections" gallery "Nature", under "Home Life" galleries "Backyard Landscaping" and "Pool Construction"

What I currently have...categories/galleries, "Home Life", "Photography/Collections $ Pool Construction galleries", "Other/Backyard Landscaping", "Collections/Nature". A mess, and I've tried to make it right (until 3 am last night!).

I really appreciate your help with this.

Roger

Comments

  • hoffmcshoffmcs Registered Users Posts: 125 Major grins
    edited July 23, 2010
    It sounds to me the step you are missing is creating subcategories. Click on the section "Want to create, rename, or delete Categories, Subcategories and their NiceNames?" on this help page http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo. Currently SmugMug only lets you have 2 levels, categories and subcategories. It sounds like what you are trying to do is exactly that. But, if you want to have a subcategory under Nature, you cannot go any deeper.

    -Photography (c)
    --Collections (s)
    ---Nature (g)

    --Home Life (s)
    ---Backyard Landscaping (g)
    ---Pool Construction

    (c) category
    (s) subcategory
    (g) gallery

    Try creating a subcategory and see how it goes.
  • RogeriousRogerious Registered Users Posts: 5 Beginner grinner
    edited July 24, 2010
    hoffmcs wrote: »
    It sounds to me the step you are missing is creating subcategories. Click on the section "Want to create, rename, or delete Categories, Subcategories and their NiceNames?" on this help page http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo. Currently SmugMug only lets you have 2 levels, categories and subcategories. It sounds like what you are trying to do is exactly that. But, if you want to have a subcategory under Nature, you cannot go any deeper.

    -Photography (c)
    --Collections (s)
    ---Nature (g)

    --Home Life (s)
    ---Backyard Landscaping (g)
    ---Pool Construction

    (c) category
    (s) subcategory
    (g) gallery

    Try creating a subcategory and see how it goes.

    Thanks. I wasn't thinking right regarding sub-categories which was messing me up; since I was trying to do what I shouldn't be able to do ;0(

    It still took me a while to get it all straightened out - to undo what I did. But your layout helped greatly.

    Thanks again.

    Roger
  • HaraldEHaraldE Registered Users Posts: 161 Major grins
    edited July 24, 2010
    Try StarExplorer
    Hello Roger,

    I have myself set up over 40 Categories. They have all their own Sub-categories and Galleries. This I do using StarExplorer. Doing it directly in SmugMug is possible but much more tedious.

    There are probably other tools so look around and see what you like best.
    StarExplorer has become a valuable tool to manage the SmugMug structure and to upload photos

    Ragards, Harald
    ==================
    My focus is on digitizing memories
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