Uploading REALNEO Header Images

Submitted by jeffschuler on February 15, 2008 - 10:45pm.

How to upload an image for the RealNEO header -- without using a blog post:

  1. Use the create content link in the left-hand menu, then choose image. (Or, a bookmark a shortcut: http://realneo.us/node/add/image )
  2. Specify an image Title.
  3. Under the Community of interest links: menu, select RealNEO Header.  You'll need to pull the menu down all the way to the bottom to see " RealNEO Header".
  4. Browse to the the image file on your computer.
  5. Enter a description: where the image was taken, etc.

From here, [an administrator can] use the Theme editor to replace the current image with this one. Anyone can upload images to this category, making it a pseudo-staging area for new header images, though without auto-publishing or administrative enabling. To see old images, use the header images link in the top-right menu bar. To Do (for me):

  • Add a link to the headers image gallery ~ near the image at the top of the page.
  • See if there's a good [non brute-force] way to move all the past header images into this gallery.
  • Newer versions of Drupal allow for setting triggers. We'll be able to fire a trigger (say, email an administrator) when an image is added to this gallery.
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ASPECT RATIO OF IMAGES FOR REALNEO HEADER

Submitted by Jeff Buster on February 16, 2008 - 4:04pm.

Help keep Realneo visually dynamic, informative, and thought provoking every day by submitting your panorama, sketch, montage, cartoon, etc.  Please prepare your submission as a jpeg  and size it 1050 pixels wide, and between 150 and 250 pixels high.  

 

Since I have been working with the header images I have found that as I travel with my camera, I keep my eye open for scenes that are long and low – like the aspect ratio of the banner of Realneo.  Header scenes can be an entire landscape, or a close up of a snake – or snake skin.   Or, you can just stitch together images – like laying out 10 cards in a horizontal row on a table.  Make it new, make it bright, make the viewer inquisitive.

 

Eventually the aim is to queue up the submitted header images and have them automatically replace the header every 24 hours. 

resolved image header gallery/category

Submitted by jeffschuler on February 23, 2008 - 11:42pm.

I've made a few changes to how images can be categorized, and updated this post appropriately.
 
I changed the Community of interest links: "vocabulary" (in Drupal terminology) to be able to include images.
 
Now, when adding a header image using create content > image, instead of adding the image to a gallery, add it to the Community of interest link, RealNEO Header.
 
I removed the Image Gallery called RealNEO Headers (distinct from the Community of interest link just mentioned.) There were only two images (Jeff Buster's) tagged as such, which I re-categorized appropriately.
 
I added a "header images" link to the top-right site menu. The linked page lists the content (blog posts, images, etc.,) categorized as RealNEO Header.

Fabulous

Submitted by lmcshane on March 14, 2008 - 3:21am.

  I want to give it a try!  Thanks Jeff S and Jeff B!