Images

Before you add an image to your site, it is important to consider where you would like it to appear on the page. While University Communications typically handles the selection and placement of images on Landing Pages, there are several other areas where you might add an image to your site.

Lead Media refers to the image that appears at the top of a page. Main Content refers to the main body of the page where most of your page's text appears. Images can be added at full width or they can be treated as Floated Content, which allows for text in this region to wrap around the image. Slideshows are also available for displaying a group of images at one time.

Follow the guidelines for each regarding how to edit, upload, and add these images to your site.

Editing Images

Editing images to the appropriate size on your page is easier than you may think! We recommend using Canva. This is a free and easy-to-use graphic design tool that you can use to upload and edit the sizes of images. Just start a project with Custom Dimensions, drop in your image, and export.

Images in the Lead Media region require specific dimensions which we include in our guidance. While other other images added to your site do not have dimension restrictions, we do recommend keeping file sizes at or below 1 MB each.

You can also use a tool like Photoshop. Learn more about requesting Adobe Creative Cloud and its pricing through SpiderTechNet.