[IMC-bristol] st pauls carnival feature

[ian]

thankyou to the person who uploaded the St Pauls's carnival feature - its 
great to see people taking a pro-active role in updating the middle 
column....however there were a couple of things that in my eyes were wrong 
with it.

1- photo : i reckon that photos should be no bigger than 130 pixels & no 
wider than 200 pixels.  Use a programme like photoshop to resize & then 
upload it on the site( you can hide it after when you're done with it ...)

this photo was also hotlinked from a council website - again this is not 
very good web etiquette

2- I strongly object to having direct links to the BBC  on features ( i've 
taken the liberty & changed this link to the carnivals website which I 
think is of more relevance )

3- in my opinion features should stem directly from the newswire - then 
people can comment on them if they agree / don't agree with it.  This is 
not always possible and yes i've done the same in the past but in 
retrospect I think this is a good way of working...it reduces the role of 
'editing' and allows middle column features to be in the words of the author.

These comment should be taken as criticism of a constructive 
nature.   After all we all want the website to look as good as it is 
humanly possible...


cheers
ian