I run the creative department for a small-ish artist management agency who focuses on visual artists. I’m trying to discern if Webflow can pull off the following as a temporary solution/mvp until our devs have time to build a proper web app in the fall:
Search Page
- List our talent in a searchable directory
- Filter by: Artist Type, Location (two separate collection lists?) - Jetboost?
- Search by: Name (Keyword) - Jetboost?
- Each Artist/item in the main collection would have a thumbnail image and some other basic items like: name, and location.
Portfolio Page
- Typical bio, links to artists websites, social profiles etc.
- Gallery of the artists work (with large cropped thumbnails that when clicked, load a larger, un-cropped version in a modal)
- In the case of artists who do video work, the modal that would pop up when the thumbnail is clicked, would contain a video player. From what I gather, videos in collection items aren’t possible. That said, I’ve heard of people working around this by using Vimeo?
That’s essentially it. My concerns are:
- For the main page/search, would all 300 collection items load on page-load? Sounds like potential performance and UX issue, if it’s pulling 300 thumbnail images? Any way to load on scroll, while preserving searching/filtering of the entire collection?
- Any easy way to allow editors/contributors on our staff to create crops for the thumbnails without doing them manually in something like Photoshop? Ideally, it would be great if they could upload a file, select the crop and save it so that it would be used in the search. 3rd party plugins/integrations would be ok if necessary.
- On the “portfolio page” would it be possible to have nested collections for different galleries of work? Ie. so that the page is more organized vs just a flat collection?