[Imc-uk-useability] [Imc-uk-process] article display

[mini mouse]

I don't have any problem with thumbnails, but I'm one of the few 
photographers who think that way. Cast your mind back to when Chris 
enabled that last year...

If we did go down that route I'd suggest we decided what we meant by 
"a thumbnail" first in terms of size - the 150 pixel jobs on front 
page articles only work because they're selected pictures carefully 
cropped. Many posters' pictures would be unintelligible at that size, 
you'd need 250 pixels to make any sense of them.

I support thumbnails because I think the words are at least as 
important as the pictures. I usually find a scroll of 10 or so random 
pictures of an event un-illuminating (and they break up the story), 
but to work as a narrative you'd have to be able to insert the 
thumbnails where you wanted to in the article.

mini mouse



At 23:18 -0800 4/2/07, Shiar wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Since we're reconsidering the site design these days, I was just thinking
>that maybe it's time to play a bit with the way articles and features are
>displayed.
>
>I'd need to play around with things a bit to see what they'll look like,
>but basically I was thinking that all articles should have a picture, and
>when one is not attached, a default one (say imc logo or something) is
>shown in its place. The image size could be somewhere between the icon and
>the full typical size, with the abstract wrapping round it, like on
>startpage. This would be the 'main picture'. As for the rest, when more
>than one pic are uploaded, they could be displayed as thumbnails, where
>clicking on them would take you to the full size. And I'd suggest they go
>in between the abstract and content.
>
>The publish form, I suppose, would have to be amended accordingly, so that
>posters are asked to differentiate between the main pic and the rest of
>the pics.
>
>This, of course, would not be very great for people doing photo-reports.
>So maybe we should have a different template for those?
>
>Just a thought...
>
>--
>Shiar
>
>
>
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