Ok. I like the skin here. It's clean and pleasant and soft on the eye. I just seem to have a problem with the width. Well, I don't have the problem, but it seems that many do (including some regulars and mods *cough* :cheeky: ), and post pictures wider that the 600px we are allowed.

It seems to me, that the norm on forums these days is around 750. I can understand why that might be too wide, but perhaps the previous 650 could be a bit more convenient for many. After all, it is a forum with a lot of graphical elements in posts, so wouldn't it be in everybody's interest to focus more on the graphics themselves? Just a thought.

An alternative could be two different skins at different widths, but that might be going over the top.

I am told by a nerdy friend who also dabbles rather a lot with site design and vBulletin, that it's possible simply to not show images that are wider than the permitted width. Perhaps that was a possibility?

Anyway, thoughts on this?

At my old favorite forum that I mentioned in the 'Clean House' Thread, we had a script that would automatically resize pictures that were larger than the set size, it set the image to an automatic hyperlink so all you had to do was click on the re-sized image to see the full one.

This could be a solution, one con of this was images that were close to the limits but still over were hard to tell they were re-sized and were also a little distorted, (Looked bad).

Either way I don't think we need to adjust the width here, Its not to hard to make a small image and link to the big one and we could always just post links.

I have seen that script resizing script for PHPbb forums, and it would be ideal for this one. I will have to look into that.

My two cents on the "widths" issue. I think the best approach is the one used now: establish a rule about max widths, which members must simply adhere to. :)

My two cents on the "widths" issue. I think the best approach is the one used now: establish a rule about max widths, which members must simply adhere to. :)
I second this motion.........

I've noticed that a lot of people would not even look at the photo if I provide URL instead of posting the image it self. That doesn't happen on this board though.

I see the validity of the argument here.

http://www.behindthecurtain.org/board/viewtopic.php?t=3917
That's one way to do it... although I don't like that method. Better off with links imo.

Or... you could alter the forum a bit by re-arranging the user data to be on top instead of on the left like this... Then ppl should be satiesfied ;)
http://www.lowopacity.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=2389

With vB you can just create another BBCode that deals with larger images. I know of another forum that had a [BIMG] tag, so if you used it then your image would automatically be resized and then you'd be able to click it to view it in a new window. So if someone knows the image they're going to post is wider than 600px they'd use the BIMG code instead of the IMG code. Then, I'm sure with a little javascript you can even have a new restricted size window that pops up to fit the real size image.

I can try whipping up a quick BBCode "mod" for a [BIMG] tag if you want me to.