The default image size is a bit stingy, yeah. It dates back to when people used to have much smaller monitors I think!

I have changed a setting in your photo album that means that if you click on the image it now lets you view the original. These are perhaps in some cases rather too large!

I can also set the default "Viewer Size" for photos in your album. For example if you look on this site you'll see that it has been set larger (max 800x800 in this case).

I can set this for you too, if you like. However, note that it does not affect existing images, only newly added images, so you'll have to re-upload your pictures if you want them to appear at this larger size.

Thanks

Voice Admin

Thanks for your reply re image size.

My own personal view on size would be dependant on the content of the image and the default resolution of the PC screen.  My own screen is 1920 x 1080

Most of the images on The Birmingham SME site, are of mechanical items and being able to zoom into the fine detail is most useful.

If you need to limit all images to a particular size, then 1280 x 1024 would I think be more desirable.

I think what we are aiming for, is the ability to show an image full screen if so desired.

Incidently how has the example site, been able to set their images to 800 x 600 max?

I note also, the the final image size does depend largely on the image file size uploaded to the site. I've just had to change a couple of ours, as when viewed full size the image was still very small.

Best regards.

We would like our photos to be larger - can you change the settings on my site too please?

Thank you!

Hi

Looking at the Birmingham SME website this morning, the photo size does not seem to have changed. Each photo still displays at 400 x 280 nominally.

They are not being resized to 800 x 800 as per your previous post.

However, Clicking on each individual photos does then give a full size version which is fine

Best regards Ken T - Webmaster Birmingham SME Ltd

Admin,

This looks good to me - updating all of the images to this size would be a great saving of time and the new size would improve the experience for the club members - thank you.

Hi,

I've updated it in Pilton Retreat.

I've not yet updated it in all sites, nor run the script to update existing photos. I want to ensure I've tested the script a bit more first :-)

Thanks

Voice Admin

Hi all,

I have updated all photos in all albums in all sites to a new larger size. I didn't go with the full 800x800 max as this caused problems on smallish screens (1024x768) so I have gone with 700x500 max. This I think is much better than the old size, and shouldn't cause problems for those with smaller screens.

I have also fixed a few other minor things in the photo album app - the & character no longer messes up in the breadcrumb trail, and I've put in better default folder/album icons.

Please post on the forums if you experience any problems.

Thanks

Voice Admin

On the subject of photos, do people really think it's necessary for every photo to have a Title, Caption, Description, and Story?

I was thinking I might simplify this, having only two text fields with each photo. They would be:

• Title (plain text) - used as a caption when viewing the whole album, and the title/breadcrumb when viewing a single picture.
• Description (wysiwyg) - longer description shown only when viewing a photo.

What do people think?

Thanks

Joe - Voice Admin

Hi
It sounds like a good idea.  Will any current story content be automatically moved into the longer desciption field? Also  could the wysiwyg be extended to include album stories? this is currently plain text.