Monday, February 9, 2009

A featured photo note

If you go to the Buffalo.com home page, you will notice that we feature 10 Spotted photos every day (or nine photos and one video, depending on how much new video content is floating around).

The tool we use to upload those photos favors horizontal photos: that is to say, "wider" shots.














Buffalo.com photo by Matt and Angela Brown.


Lately, a growing trend among our Spotted photographers has been to post vertically aligned photos.



















Buffalo.com photo by Dan Ruggiero.

This is not a problem on the actual Spotted site - we can crop and feature the photos on the Spotted home page using admin tools in the Spotted software. This is not the case in the Buffalo.com module (unfortunately).

Please make an attempt to post a decent number of horizontal photos with your galleries - photos and galleries featured on Buffalo.com get a lot more traffic than those that are not...and if we can't find any worthy horizontal photos in your gallery, we can't feature your photos on the home page, even if your vertical shots are fantastic.

Just something to keep in mind.

2 comments:

Ben said...

I should note that the use of Dan's photo was not to pick on Dan!

djruggiero said...

it's ok BOSS