ANNOUNCEMENT: Photos in Articles

Posted by Matt Broughton on 05/10 at 04:40 PM

ANNOUNCEMENT: Photos in Articles

As you know I’ve been working on making it possible to post photos within articles. I’ve completed the work on this feature today and added it to the site.

To post a photo, you will add it to the photo gallery like normal, then when you go to the “New Article” page you will see a drop down underneath the “Body” field. This dropdown contains all the photos you have uploaded to the photo gallery, regardless of which category you have posted it into. This makes it easy to find your photo instead of having to search through the categories for it.

To add the photo, simply select the photo’s title from the dropdown and it will be added to your article post automatically.

I have not yet edited the “Edit Entry” form to take into account this new feature, so choose your photos with care. I’ll take care of the “Edit Entry” form tomorrow hopefully. Until then, enjoy!

As always, if you find a bug in this new feature, please post a comment and let me know what happened. I’ll be watching it closely over the next few days to make sure everything is working properly.

Your comments:

Ted King says:

Congratulations Matt! That photo looks great.

On: 05/10  at  05:43 PM

kingfish says:

I haven’t been here for a couple of weeks so I am seeing these changes for the first time. I like what I see. I don’t post any pictures, but love to see the ones that are posted. It’s nice to see whats going on around my old home town. Keep up the good work Matt. Speaking of work Ted, why are you browsing the net when you are supposed to be working. No wonder that state is going broke.

On: 05/10  at  07:58 PM

Doug Fisher says:

Matt:
Can’t say enough about all the work you’ve done to make the site more user friendly, including those prominent post photo and post article buttons.

I’m hoping folks like mantl7fan come back regularly now.

Doug

On: 05/10  at  10:36 PM

JimmyBallard says:

Matt and Doug:

Thank you for your help with this feature a lot of us want to see restored to the site. However, I hope some way can be found to post photos directly within articles without having to post them first in the photo gallery. It seems like a lot of work to go through, especially if one wants to post more than one photo to illustrate a story.
I also do not like the requirement to write an “abstract” before writing the “body” of an article….as if we are writing a thesis for a college prof. Can we eliminate the abstract requirement? It adds nothing to the site but a repitition of material in the article.
Last year I did a photo feature story on The Taste of Hartsville. It had several pictures of the event and people liked it. The Taste is on May 20. I don’t know if I will be able to do the photos the way I did last year on the old site.
I have some photos in Phobobucket and will try a few tomorrow to see how this works but I think I would still prefer placing photos directly into the article (in some html form) without going to the gallery first.

On: 05/12  at  03:15 AM

Audrey Childers says:

Love this! Thank you so much for all the hard work you’ve put into the site. HVTD really looks great - so much more life than before. Congratulations!

On: 05/12  at  08:17 AM

Matt Broughton says:

Jimmy,

The abstract is actually used on the article section pages. If you click any of the pages in the “articles” dropdown you’ll see what I’m talking about. The abstract appears under the headline and you click through the headline to get to the rest of the story.
As far as photos, if you want multiple photos with the story, you are still more than welcome to use basic HTML to embed them within the story. The automated process was created to allow folks with no experience with html to have photos with their story in a manner that is easy to understand.
The reason that it uses the photo gallery is that we have control over the photos uploaded there. If you upload to a 3rd party site we can’t be sure that the photos will be around as long as your story. Someone browsing through the archives might view a story months old and have the photos no longer there. Hosting them within the site eliminates this.
That being said, I do forsee the photo upload process getting reviewed at some point in the future. I’d like to offer the ability to upload multiple photos and caption them at once versus having to upload piecemeal.
Naturally this is a work in progress so I appreciate the feedback and gathering information on what seems to be working and what isn’t working well, so thanks!

On: 05/12  at  12:02 PM

Doug Fisher says:

Jimmy (and anyone else):

The tag for embedding an image directly from Photobucket or another source:

(Please replace the { or } with < or >. I use the braces so this will not translate into actual code.)


{img src=“xxxxxxxx”  height=“hhh” width=“www”}

Replace the xxxxxxx with the path to where the picture resides - on most photo services you can find that actual path somewhere on the page, or you may have to right-click on the photo. Please don’t ask me specifics - every service is different. The height and width commands are not required, but if your photo is sized too big, it might not work on these pages. Generally, for a horizontal photo, I would set the width somewhere between 500 and 600 (pixels) and the height would be that number divided by 1.33.

For vertical photos, the width usually is not a problem, but if it is, set that first and then do the height proportional to the dimensions of your original.

On: 05/13  at  10:48 AM

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