I would suggest a way to have bigger pictures in news articles. Ie, have the thumbnails, in the normal article, but have some 'click to enlarge' or something. That way, renders and informative images are way, way easiert to see, and the visual element can help images; you could have text like 'as can be seen in the image to the left, damage to the interstage of this F9 was a bit heavier then expected; sources tell us it might be replaced'Or- actually showing something that is talked about, ie the connection point for the SLS booster being given a new paintjob.Tldr; bigger images in the news section.
And there's the other suggestion of captions, although we add the images with the text around them. Such as we know we're talking about the satellite, guess what, that's an image of the satellite. Not sure what adding a caption saying "The JCSAT-16 Satellite" adds.
So fire away with ideas.
1) Make images clickable to make them bigger. I would note a lot of times the source image isn't all that much bigger, so not sure how that would work.2) Have images bigger from the start, across the width of the text. Some sites do that.
Okay dokey. Captions are wanted. I did get a PM about a caption plug in for our CMS so I'll look at that. PS I'll create a test article (dated 2005 or something so it won't show to anyone else other than the link it'll create and I'll post in here, to work on these things. So there will be a physical article to see the changes as we make them on this particular subject.
Can you add a link at the bottom of articles to the discussion thread? If it isn't listed in the recent forum posts it would be easier to find it.
I made this suggestion in the logo thread: A different background behind "same logo" for each forum section:For example, Historical behind NASASPACEFLIGHT a photo or graphic of Apollo on the Moon's surface...etc Oh Nathan
Quote from: Rocket Science on 08/15/2016 01:23 pmI made this suggestion in the logo thread: A different background behind "same logo" for each forum section:For example, Historical behind NASASPACEFLIGHT a photo or graphic of Apollo on the Moon's surface...etc Oh Nathan We used to do that! Maybe someone can check waybackmachine and find the circa 2009 ish? (I think).
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 08/15/2016 04:45 pmQuote from: Rocket Science on 08/15/2016 01:23 pmI made this suggestion in the logo thread: A different background behind "same logo" for each forum section:For example, Historical behind NASASPACEFLIGHT a photo or graphic of Apollo on the Moon's surface...etc Oh Nathan We used to do that! Maybe someone can check waybackmachine and find the circa 2009 ish? (I think).What a blast from the past... "rocket humor" Here it is! https://web.archive.org/web/20090311054416/http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/
Wow! There we go! The old, old NSF, with the different icons for different subject areas on the logo.But no dedicated SpaceX area back then!
I will agree with other posters that, given the existing article formatting width, the default image sizes should not change. For images that users can zoom, they should do as overlays or new pages, they should not expand inline and change layout. For L2 images that you're concerned about other sites borrowing without credit, watermarks or limiting the max resolution are options. When you post an FPIP in an article, full resolution would be very nice Thank you for seeking our feedback.
Quote from: NaN on 08/15/2016 08:33 pmI will agree with other posters that, given the existing article formatting width, the default image sizes should not change. For images that users can zoom, they should do as overlays or new pages, they should not expand inline and change layout. For L2 images that you're concerned about other sites borrowing without credit, watermarks or limiting the max resolution are options. When you post an FPIP in an article, full resolution would be very nice Thank you for seeking our feedback.Could be a good call as I wonder if this zoom option will also help the different browsers and devices, from desktop to iPhones.So for my test article, I should look at original layout, but with captions and for the images to zoom to large size if reader clicks on the image?
Quote from: Chris Bergin on 08/15/2016 01:22 amI'm not familiar with WordPress so I don't know all the constraints that authors have to work with, I think both issues can be solved if the paragraph that refers to the embedded image also incorporates a sentence that says something like:"higher resolution image available in L2 at http....."This way it is possible to use L2 membership to prevent non L2 members gaining access to the higher res images which Chris wanted to prevent.
I'm not familiar with WordPress so I don't know all the constraints that authors have to work with, I think both issues can be solved if the paragraph that refers to the embedded image also incorporates a sentence that says something like:"higher resolution image available in L2 at http....."This way it is possible to use L2 membership to prevent non L2 members gaining access to the higher res images which Chris wanted to prevent.