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A blast from the past; our theme from the 2013 ONA Conference
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Blog post width #59

Closed jeremiahnpatterson closed 10 years ago

jeremiahnpatterson commented 10 years ago

Hey Adam, can we have the content of blog posts take up the full width? Looks like they're set to 85% right now, so there's a gap along the right edge.

Example: http://ona13.journalists.org/2013/08/13/discounted-registration-to-ona13-extended-until-aug-29/

jeremiahnpatterson commented 10 years ago

Oh, also, can we remove the featured image from auto-displaying above the headline of a blog post? That's why we haven't really used the feature yet (we haven't had big, bold photos to share).

We'd like to control the photos manually within the post. But we can still use the featured image to control what image gets displayed in the category feed: http://ona13.journalists.org/category/news/

Actually, what would be really cool is if we could toggle whether a featured image get's displayed on the post or not. But that's a low, low priority.

anekola commented 10 years ago

The 85% width was intentional.

With our very narrow right column, the width of the pages should be slimmer as well - but it's actually 1056px wide; wider than most pages.

This causes the line length of content to me much too long. Right now it's up to about 90 characters

Here are some articles on line length and readability, the first says 75 characters is pushing it: http://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/02/applying-macrotypography-for-readable-web-page/

That said, I was thinking about utilizing that extra 15% for social media buttons, and then have them float under the text on smaller widths. Maybe I'd move the space to the left side in this situation.

I've also been thinking about bumping up the font size of the body text, which would help - but I think I may need to swap out the font-face if I do that.

Good point about the featured image, I think I raised that question when we were working on that template. A metabox would be easy to put in; I'll have it default to floating in the text, but you can then change it to be large.

jeremiahnpatterson commented 10 years ago

That all sounds good Adam, and thanks for the insight!