Subalbums, great but

edasque

So I've been running http://www.generalmagic.org with subalbums for a little while and everything works fine. But I find myself missing root-level albums only now.

Let me explain.

While organizing everything in sub-folders is great for organization, I find it might hamper people's natural incline to explore and go through all the photos. Because they have to go in and out of sub-albums, back up, dive in, etc it's not as smooth an experience.

Note that this is not a critique of any implementation of zp, just trying to think of a better flow for my site.

I am thinking that maybe the ability to show all photos from an album and all sub-albums could be nice. next_image() only shows photos from the current album (not childrend), maybe it could take a parameter ?

Also I imagine I could 'alias' a few things (didn't try but I am guessing hard links would work).

What do people think ?

Erik

elderz

I had something similar in my previous gallery setup. Overall, it was vastly inferior to zp, hence the switch, but there were a few things like that that came in handy. The downside to a feature like this, is if you have a lot of albums/images people can get "lost". I know that when I browse through my albums in this method, there are enough of them now that it gets frustrating and I'm not sure where I am. That might just be my view of it though. For smaller galleries, though, this is a really nice feature.

trisweb

I think it will greatly help my galleries, which are very very large, but you're right, sub-albums can get confusing.

Try to use them sparingly, and define your albums well. Only use categories when it makes sense, like for a certain category, or a certain vacation. It's up to you to organize effectively.

In ZP2 I'm planning on more organizational help, with the use of tags, groups, albums and subalbums, and more. Basically any image from any source should be able to be included in your gallery. You can have flickr images in one group mixed with images of the same tags from your own web space, and images from a completely different server in another album. This is way ahead dreaming of course... I just like talking about it...