On 6/14/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
As far as layout goes, to me an image gallery is a total abdication: "There's some text up there. There are some images down here". Images carefully chosen and well spaced out and laid out throughout the text is vastly preferable. Some principles I tend to follow, which obviously conflict:
- No images on the same level as a heading
- Don't start paragraphs with images on the left
- Alternate images on the left and right sides
- Don't centre images except for large panoramas
- Make high-quality, important images, bigger. Make diagrams smaller.
- Make all image widths multiples of 50px.
- Attempt to align images vertically.
- Place images close to the most relevant text.
- Start the article with a large (300px) image on the right hand side.
I would love some formal guidelines for the layout of images. Hell, some more formal guidelines for layout in general wouldn't go astray.
[[Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images]]?