I'm a graphic designer with basic web experience, looking for a purely functional solution to this problem. Apologies if it's a no brainer for others here, but I'm curious about what creative solutions exist!
I have an always growing collection of images that I keep for posterity and inspiration, currently organized by designer/artist [lastname_firstname]. As of now, it's 150+ folders of images. Some have sub-folders. Some folders might have 5 images, others 80. I'm always gathering. It's beneficial to me in a lot of ways, and I think sharing it would be fun and help others, at the very least.
I had a web design professor awhile back introduce me to indexhibit which sounds like it fits my needs perfectly. Unfortunately, the skills and knowledge I gained in that course have grown rusty, and I started wondering if a simpler solution existed.
I'm curious if any other solutions or platforms come to mind?
My basic requirements are:
-No image cap
-Ability to tag and categorize (ex: the same album cover image can be found in the [designer's name] folder, as well as an overall [album art] folder)
-Doesn't need to look pretty. In fact, I like indexhibit for its underdesigned aesthetic.
-Bonus if I can somehow host it on my portfolio site (squarespace at the moment)
tl;dr: I'd love to have an online, shareable, indexed version of my art inspo hard drive.
Any and all advice is welcome.
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How many total files / total file size are we talking about here?
My first thought is hosting it an AWS S3 bucket and then figuring out a way to generate your "index" automatically from there.
Currently 2,567 images totaling 1.58GB.
Never used that before! Will have to look into that, thank you!