mwoods222 wrote:
My ship gallery has 3612 pictures
My tugboat gallery has 1490 pictures
landscape 198
You're doing yourself a disservice.
100 per group, tops. 50 is better.
Subdivide your pictures into categories that will allow your viewers to "drill down" to that in which they are interested.
Ships:
Subdivide by type: Tanker, Bulk, Container, Military, etc..
Subdivide types: Destroyer, Aircraft Carrier, Tanker for military, etc..
Subdivide by size, material, type of propulsion, location, etc..
Sort by century or decade of build.
You might have the same photo in different categories.
Limit each subdivision to 50 - 100 photos.
If the content of your site is easier to get to what the viewer wants, the more useful (popular) it will be.
In short, sort them by anything that will differentiate large groups, saving the viewer the tedium of looking at EVERY, SINGLE PHOTO!
You don't have too many photos.
You have too many unorganized photos (and a lot of work ahead of you).
I can NOT emphasize enough the importance of mapping out your sorting plan BEFORE you start shifting things around.
Good luck!