Nick Taylors blog

As I’m planning on embedding images and videos into the blog, I need to remember that the optimal size using my customized grid-focus theme is 700px wide, and around 525px high (though it’s ok to +/- by a hundred px or so).

I recently spent some time in the The Maze District of Canyonlands National Park. Here’s the slideshow from that trip.
I used animoto to put together a video slideshow, with music (700×389px):

A Trip to The Maze from Nick Taylor on Vimeo

I use flickr to host my images, so it makes sense to use their flash-based slideshow, if for nothing else other than ease of use (700×525px).

Finally, here’s a static image embedded from flickr, resized to 700×466px (a good size for landscape oriented shots, remember to embed the large via the flickr photo album plugin and resize down in the HTML).

Hopefully this looks ok and I’ll use these defaults in the future. Of course, over at blog.exerro.com, the defaults are 950px wide, and slideshow photos should be 425px high. I’d love a way to do this without using Flash, any suggestions?