Candids and common campus locations are searchable by all, for example type in “LOVE” and the Love statue will come up. Type in “candids” and we have pre-populated the library with candids.

Even if you only plan to use a small version on your page!

• The image manager will easily let you resize and move your images to fit in the various areas of your page. As more computers and devices come standard with high-resolution displays, it’s a good habit to keep those original image sizes large! That also makes it easier for you (or the web team) to reuse your images in a slideshow format later.
• Aim for at least 2000px on the longest side, if you are able.

• Example: Biology Ice Cream Social Fall 2019

• For the Ursinus event widgets and news widgets, the photo is almost a square, so keep that in mind when uploading a photo that is rectangular in shape. It will primarily focus on the mid section of a vertical OR horizontal photo.
• It is best practice to use a photo or simple graphic rather than a flyer or image with text on it. Images with heavy text will compete with the title and description thatis part of the widget display.
• if you have a flyer or TV slide with the graphic and text, simplify the image that you upload to the event or news story. It is NOT the same size as the flyer and will most certainly be cut off. Text will not be readable. Suggestion: select one image from the flyer and use that as the uploaded image.
• Images can be made into links by clicking to highlight the image, and then pushing the link button in the toolbar.

 

• You can choose whether or not to display the caption below your photo, but regardless of what you choose, always enter a caption, in fact, you will be required to do so. This helps our users who may be using screen-readers or other assistive devices, or who are accessing the site from low-bandwidth locations.
• The best captions are usually one or maybe two short sentences - be descriptive, but succinct!

 

As more and more people view the site on a multitude of devices, we can more easily control their experience by using these handy guides. Plus you’ll always be certain that your images aren’t stretched or distorted!

• An image collection is a tool that you manage within LiveWhale - they aren’t visible to your users. Consider Image Collections to be internal libraries of photos. A good example of an image collection might be “Staff Headshots”.
• Galleries are located within the Images tab. Galleries are intended to be shown publicly. Galleries are a set of more curated images, with captions, that are displayed to your users. So your image gallery might be called “Biology Major Ice Cream Social” - and it would only use the best of the uploaded photos from the Image Gallery from that event, complete with a caption. Galleries are synomonous with Slideshow under the Insert element on the Edit Page toolbar.

• If you cannot locate an image in our image library in the dashboard (by searching the word candid for instance), and want to search the web for imagery, start with places like Flickr or Pixabay, which will allow you to search for images that are licensed for reuse by Creative Commons. Also, Google Images allows you to filter by non-commercial reuse, under Images - Tools - Usage Rights.
• Wikipedia typically offers one photo per topic that can be commonly used.
• Do NOT upload photos that are copyrighted and require permission. Permission must be explicitly granted by the owner of that image. Legal action has been taken by photographers for illegal use of photos. It is essential that Livewhale editors adhere to this policy.