Triond and Our Choice for Photos
Which pic to choose can be a tough decision.
Ok we all know we have to choose a photo at the bottom of the page to add to our articles but shouldn’t they at least make sense?
“Choose a thumbnail image to display with your work.”
No problem you think right? Well problem! I don’t how many times I have clicked numerous times trying to find the right image to match my article. Often time having to add words to the Tag to guide it along.
For instance, I recently posted an article through News on Daylight Savings Time. The second image in the list was plain and simple in bold letters the word SEX. hmm… well maybe that is how some people choose to spend that extra hour but it certainly wasn’t mentioned in my article.
Far too often I will type up a subject and the images are loaded with American flags, American symbols, buildings, presidential statues. What do these images have to do with anything I wrote about? They don’t that is the problem and it drives me crazy!
Please Triond find a way to match your images with the subject placed in front of you. I know it is just a program and not a perfect science but somewhere close would be nice.
I am curious to see what images come up for this one.
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November 8th, 2010 at 12:45 pm
These are petty things to worry about.
November 8th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I have this problem with the pictures on the side. I will write a book review and not even a photo of that book will come up. I have to go search it out on Amazon. I know they talk about using “key” words but I don’t know what those “key” words are supposed to be.
November 8th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Yeah, I have the same problem. I usually end up clicking randomly.
November 8th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
some times they over take
the poets impressions
at times snaps cover the folly
some times the poem is cute
and the photo adds to its glory
so don’t worry
Triond approves of it
so does the jury hence
avoid the fury!
November 8th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
some times they over take
the poets impressions
at times snaps cover the folly
some times the poem is cute
and the photo adds to its glory
so don\’t worry
Triond approves of it
so does the jury hence
avoid the fury!
November 9th, 2010 at 12:03 am
Wonderful article written
November 9th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Sometimes I just choose the most colorful one whenever I can’t find the image that I need.
November 9th, 2010 at 9:07 am
Yeah, I have the same problem
November 9th, 2010 at 10:45 am
hmm Fornis looks like it’s not petty after all eh!
Pat, I know I wonder about the key words too. It’s hard to know what they’re looking for.
Dee, yes me too sometimes I look for what might grab the reader the most.
November 9th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
ok. if you care so much about it. I have stopped bothering about it as it takes lot of time waste and we may not find the one we like to use. And it is not shown on our article but on pages linking to our article. Hardly anyone clicks page after page within a website even if it is compelling image.
However if it gets shown up in search engine you will get hits for sure. But for that you dont need these thumb nails but you can get a thumbnail of your choice resize it down or get one under free license and place in the article.
At Bukisa we have choice to upload our thumb but I stopped as it is taking as much as writing the article itself. It isn’t really worth the thumb. Perhaps at the most you might get 10% of your traffic through this. Within the time spent for this you may write another good piece of content.
November 9th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
I’m not that bothered by it. I just wish there were more photos from other countries.. every article I write an American flag pops up and I don’t live in the U.S. That does annoy me.
I joined Bukisa the other day but for some reason it is not recognizing the email address, pen name or password I entered with and I never received a confirmation letter.
November 9th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
i like this post
November 9th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
I too have experienced such problems; I’m sure Triond would rectify this. This happens in Image suggestions too.
November 10th, 2010 at 6:13 am
I have had the same problem. I’ve clicked for that image about ten times and still couldn’t find the right one. Sometimes nothing fit but had to choose something. I agree Triond should do something better.
November 10th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
I stopped paying too much attention about it, I rather choose something more or less catchy that matches my theme. And yes, I do that too, adding tags just for the better images to pop up and then remove these silly tag words
I wonder whether Triond can offer its users some images for the posts – I struggle a lot in finding a free source of quality photos.
Nina, try sending them an email (I mean Buskia), asking for help. I also had some issues with registration and they solved it just fine.
November 10th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
It would be nice if they put more time into it but I guess they aren’t bothered.
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Jessie, thanks I will do that. Now to find the contact button lol
November 10th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Sometimes, we just have to pcik the one that can be closely associated with our article.
November 11th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Nina,
You can also ask on getsatisfaction site of Bukisa:
http://getsatisfaction.com/bukisa/topics
This will be public so they will certainly respond.
There is also one for triond; just change the word bukisa to triond in the above url
On the suggested images part, I don’t use suggested images. We can find best, compelling, beautiful and relevant images if we do the search outside. First consider is it worth the time adding images to the articles. My experience shows otherwise.
November 11th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Thank you Fornis. I sent my message. Though I had sent one there through Triond but never received an answer.
I thought we had to add images, that it doesn’t let the article go through until you do. I do take some from outside as well.
November 11th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
That’s an important issue every one of us should ponder on.
November 12th, 2010 at 12:35 am
Like any people on triond I have this problem too.
November 20th, 2010 at 1:45 am
I seem to be having better luck lately. Maybe they are paying attention.
December 29th, 2010 at 5:22 am
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