Anatomy of a Joomla Story

First, all stories (same thing as what others call a “post”) have at least four elements.
1.) A descriptive title 2.) Some intro copy 3.) A thumbnail image and 4.) The rest of the story

The Thumbnail

All stories should have an intro thumbnail. Why? Because people relate to images, not text, and it looks better. So decide on a size and stick to it for all stories. Suggested size is something about 150 or less in width. You can vary the height based on the amount of intro text. (It’s more important to lock the width than trying to do both)

Intro Text

Every story should have about the same amount of intro text.You do this because at some point, you’re going to display multiple stories on the same page. This is especially important when you’re displaying in more than one column. Look at any newspaper. The front page is always the same. The story begins, but then has you flipping back to page 8 to read the rest. Same concept applies here.

Above is an example of how a 2 column layout might appear with similar sized thumbnails and intro text.

Read More vs Page Break

You use Read More when there’s just one more page to view. If however you have 10 pages that make up a story, it’s better to use the Page Break function so that readers can jump to any page within.

Uploading Images with Media Manager

You have two ways to do this. FTP or the Joomla Media Manager. As we have already written one of these for FTP, this time we’ll cover the Media Manager. Both Joomla 1.0.x and 1.5, to get to the Media Manager, log into the backend and look for the button:

Find The Image

For a story, you will need to upload two (or more) images. The thumbnail and the other one(s).

When you’re done finding the image, then click …

Where are my images?

It’s important to remember where you upload your images. Therefore, this too should be included as part of your documented process. e.g., All images that you plan to use within stories, should be in the /stories directory. If you have lots of categories, then it’s a good idea to have category directories within. e.g., stories/cat1

If you don’t remember where you uploaded images, it will be tough to insert them into the actual stories later.

Inserting the Thumbnail

Remember where you put that image?

You must indicate the location of the image, usually starting with images.

Align Thumbnails LEFT

Thumbnails should be aligned left, generally speaking. (sometimes people like to align right)
If you are a lefty, then do this:

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There are many sites on online image hosting on which you have to register to upload your pictures on their site. Usually it is free registration and even if, in a rare case, there is some fee for registration then it is minimal. You just register by giving your name and email address and all the other details are kept confidential depending upon whether you opt for a public or a private profile. These sites have various categories in which you can upload the pictures like Art, Photography, Funny, Love etc. These sites keep a check on the kind of pictures that are being uploaded on the site to avoid any pornographic or obscene pictures on the site. In case they find some user doing the same, his/her registration is cancelled and he /she cannot use the site.

These online image hosting sites also offer you the facility to make your own gallery, do some changes in your picture like rotating the pictures, cropping it to a particular size, adding effects to it and so on. Though the image uploading is free on these sites but there is a limit on the maximum size that your pictures can take on the site. Though there are some sites which offer you up to 100 MB of images on their site. Lot of these online image hosting sites also publish some selected pictures as the image of the week and so on.

I personally think it is a great idea to share with the whole world some of your best pictures and see some of the best pictures by other people . It is worth giving a try and I am sure if you register once on such site and upload your pictures you will continue to do it in the future as well.

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You can do that easily on ANY pc anywhere in the world withing seconds.

This short article will provide some pointers on handling your images online.

First thing to know is that image hosting isn’t just for hosting your images.
True, the name “image hosting” does indicate it’s main purpose but most hosts offer a complete set of tools you can use to manipulate the images and share them.

As an example the site xs.to offers you image hosting, a slideshow creator, a screen capture (or screenshot) tool and image resizing tools – all for free (you don’t even need to register for them).

Using the above example you can see how the whole process of taking a screen capture, resizing it, putting it into a slideshow and sharing it can take 5-10 minutes online and can be done from any pc anywhere.

This article is short. It’s aimed mainly to enlighten those who still think they need a good editor software installed locally in order to edit and share images. As the world moves to an “all online” approach it’s time to jump onboard and give it a try – this could save you a lot of money on software and lost time.

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