New "Ski Route Photos" section?

I can already see that trying to keep photos below the 600 pixel width is not going to work out too well, so instead of fight it, I think it would be easiest (for me) to dump the limit. After all, the section is all about photos, and so text concerns should be secondary. Maybe there should be a suggestion that photos be no wider that 800 pixels, with an external link to wider versions of the photo.

I think we should definitely keep some limit on the width of photos, either 600 or 800 pixels for this section. I really dislike the huge wide photos that I see in the middle of threads on other sites. <br><br>We should strongly encourage links to a much wider version of the photo, since this is often very helpful for seeing route details. I have added links to double or triple size versions of most of my route photos in previous trip reports, it takes almost no additional work to do this. Perhaps the "guidelines and how-to" info could be updated to include instructions for a suggested way to link to a wider version (especially how to use the useful "url=" tag, not just the plain "url" tag).

Hi Charles, do you think the width limit could be 640 rather then 600? 640 is more of a standard size.<br><br>And, as I understand the guidelines, if a thread for the route/view of the mountain already exists I need to post in that thread? E.g., I want to post a photo of the Southside of Adams I should add that to the thread Amar created? Once a lot of photos accumulate for a certain view it may be awkward to always scroll to the last post?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Jeff

OK, lets go with a suggested 640 pixels width limit (on my 15" monitor this will run off the right side a little bit, on my 17" it will be no problem). I don't think that I want to spend the time enforcing this, though, so it is up to posters to follow the guideline (I will continue to be more strict about 600width/one photo in TRs, though, as the most important thing there is readability of the text).<br><br>Gaper_Jeffey, adding to an existing thread is the way to do it for ski route photos boards. It may turn out that in a particular thread there will get to be too many photos for easy viewing. In that case, I could go through the thread and delete some photos (don't show routes as well, too close in date to other photos, etc). I think it will take a while for this to become a problem.<br><br>When I have a chance, I will revise the ski route photos guidelines threads. I will add the bit about including a link to a larger version of the photo, and also how to use the "url=" tag (maybe I can find a way to change the "YABBC tags" button so that it does this).