How do you sort your images?

[vampire666]

Hi there.
I was wondering how you sort your images.

I'm setting up a site powered with Joomla and it will have lots of articles and multiple images per article.

What is the best way to sort images on the server? All in one folder (so this folder will have constantly new images and will grow over time), or have a different approach like having a subdirectory for each article and their images in it?

Thank you.

[budfox100]

I'd organise them into sensible folders, otherwise you'll be doing a lot of scrolling to find the right ones.

In fact, I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't want to organise them in that way.

[vampire666]

Thank you very much for your reply.

May I ask what do you mean by sensitive folders?
Could you make an example?

Do you mean by something like: folder "dogs" with all images with dogs, folder "people" with all images with people, and so on...
What if a picture has a dog and some people in it. Where would I put it? I'm joking, but that could be a real scenario. Is there a way to tag images so that I can search images in different folders by using tags? That would be perfect I guess.

What about creating a folder for each article? I guess that the images will be sorted, but to reuse one it would be nightmare to find it (unless I remember where that same image was used). This would not be the best way, unless a tagging system is used.

I wonder if there isn't a better way to do it.

[vampire666]

Up.

Would be nice to hear some other opinion.

[rand486]

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I assume no one is answering your posts because it's highly subjective. Everyone has their own sense of organization.

Budfox's answer was entirely appropriate. Organize them sensibly.

The way you organize files for one site may (and likely is) entirely unreasonable for another site. Using your example of dogs and humans: If the site is about dogs, thats hardly a sensible organization system, is it? You'd want to sort by German Shephards, Golden Labs, Black Labs... etc.

There is no right answer here.

[vampire666]

Ok. Thanks for the reply (and sorry for bumping the thread).

Just wanted to be sure before committing to a sorting system that might not be ideal, but as you say there's not right answer and the organization of images might change from site to site and depending on what the admin chooses to do.

Have a great day.

[rand486]

No problem, I'm not an admin. I was just trying to give you a heads-up.

FYI, questions like these (with no REAL answer) might be better suited for "The Lounge".

http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=48

This forum is more intended for "I have a problem with a definite solution" kinds of questions.