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Guidelines for Images, Screenshots, Badge Art, and Trail Icons
Part of the fun of creating an enablement site is bringing your content to life with images, including illustrations and screenshots, and designing your own badge and trail icons.
Required Editions
| Available in: Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions |
| User Roles | |
|---|---|
| This topic supports these enablement site roles: | Content Creators |
Images and Screenshots in Body Text
For images that you add in the text of a unit, follow these guidelines.
- Use a PNG or JPG that’s no larger than 10 MB.
- Use an editor to resize images to a maximum width of 900 px at 200 DPI.
This size ensures that images don’t exceed the width of other body content when the enablement site is viewed in a browser window. An enablement site uses responsive design to automatically resize images for browser windows that are less than 900 px wide.
For screenshots or images with plentiful text and other details, consider these additional guidelines.
- Prepare the screenshot area so that you compress elements and capture the most important information within a window width of 900 px or less.
- Consider installing a browser extension that lets you easily resize the window to a specific width.
- As you resize the window, avoid cropping or hiding important information, including text that you want to capture.
- Avoid capturing screenshots at the full width of your screen. For example, if you capture a screenshot that’s 1,920 px wide and resize it to 900 px, the text in the screenshot can become illegible.
- Minimize unused space on the screen so that the resulting image is tidy, lean, and purposeful.
- If you want to capture important information in an area of the screen that’s wider than 900 px, consider capturing multiple smaller images that you can insert in a series in your unit.
Module Badges and Trail Icons
Use a PNG image no larger than 10 MB with a design that works well at a small size. We recommend that you work with a graphic designer to create the icons. Use minimalist, uncluttered artwork that symbolically represents the content.
Module badges are round, and trail icons are square. The standard size for badge and trail icons is 200 px × 200 px. Ideally, badge and trail art matches the same 1:1 (square) aspect ratio.
| Source Image | Trailmaker Adjustment |
|---|---|
| Larger than the standard size, with a 1:1 (square) aspect ratio | Shrinks it to fit the space |
| Wider than the standard width and rectangular | Adjusts it to fit the standard width, keeping the rectangular aspect ratio |
| Taller than the standard height and rectangular | Cuts off the top and bottom portions of the image, keeping the rectangular aspect ratio |
| Smaller than the standard size | Doesn’t adjust the image size |
Module and Trail Banner Colors
Trailmaker analyzes the badge art, determines the dominant color, and applies that color to the module banner.
You define the trail color when you create the trail. To contrast the trail icon with the trail banner, Trailmaker slightly darkens the header color.
This contrast can make the header appear darker than you expect. Use preview mode to see how the trail header looks, and edit the trail to adjust the color, if necessary.
URL Guidelines
You can upload an image file or enter a URL to an image file on a content delivery network.
If you reference a URL, follow these guidelines:
- Specify only publicly accessible URLs. You can't reference a URL from a restricted or private IP address.
- Enter the full, direct URL for the image. Don't use a short URL or any URL that redirects to another path.
