[Imc-uk-features] Longer photo descriptions

[yossarian]

Hi,

So, I've been looking at getting the photos to have longer descriptions
to make the photographers happy.  There'll be a bit of geek speak but
there are some questions for the photographers and others, in English, a
little further on.

GEEK

Basically, I've figured out how to get use the existing description
field in the database.  Trouble is that my templates on the dev server
don't seem to work so great, my publish page just evaporated and
reverted back to the Mir default for some reason.

Anyway, the technical basics of it are pretty simple.  There's a field
in the publish form template:

    <input type="text" class="preq" name="media${m}_title" size="40"
maxlength="80" value="">

That's the title.  To add a description field (which is not limited in
the number of characters it can accept), just add something like this
below it:

    <input type="text" class="preq" name="media${m}_description"
size="40" value="">

ANGLO

I don't really know how people would want the publish form to look, is
it the case that we'd want to have a "Title" and "Description" field
under each photo? Or would we just ditch the title field and use the
description only? And when it comes to the front end, would we want to
have something like:

**************************
[PHOTO]
Title
This is the description.
**************************

Let me know,

Yoss