Images in storybuilder

When you insert an image in pagebuilder or storybuilder you can designate the Height and Width pixel size. For example, for the headshots I insert on storybuilder articles I always designate the height size to be 150. It does a decent job at keeping the image in the right proportions. Or you can size your image in whatever photo editing software you use (even Microsoft picture manager) before you upload the image and it will be inserted on the page in that exact size. I think this answers your question...

Kelly Gould:

I'm wondering if there's a way, when you set up a link for a user to submit a story, to set a standardized image size that they could upload. As it is now, a user can click on the link to add a story and the image size they add could be any size. Once the story with image is submitted, from the admin side, I don't see a way for me to adjust the size of the image before I publish it. Is this something I have to contact convio to do?

Kelly,

I don't know of a way to get the Convio system to resize the photo to other than 600 X 450 (for a typical aspect ratio photo, landscape orientation). We have been manually modifying the images that the user has submitted. To do that you must go to the StoryBuilder administrative interface, preview the submission, right click the image to save it to your desktop machine, edit the image and resize it to what you want, then edit the story, delete the image and upload the new resized one.

The other option that you could try, if you don't mind wasting your users downloading time, would be to use CSS to set the width of the images in the display to what you want (have the browser resize the image for you). For the display of each individual StoryBook story, this would require a modification of the default page wrapper for the general security group using conditional S-tag programming.

David