Hey Story Maps Team,
As always, you all are doing such a great job building out this brand new template. While working with the new template after the UC release I found some things that could be fixed and could make the new template even more powerful. In addition I recently came across this GeoNet post by Stephanie Smith which covers many of the requests that I also was going to add. I thought I would add these requests here as well.
I would love to see the following:
- Increase the amount of user customization for font type, size, justification, spacing, colors, etc. in every block option and not just in the major theme settings.
- Ability for users to change dimensions of embedded content, if they choose, instead of being locked only to the app presets (maybe a css override option).
- Allow for images to "gallery" next to each other like in the cascade layout instead of only allowing stacking.
- Allow for adding content to sidecar like images and videos via a url instead of only uploading from a computer.
- Add the ability to embed a webpage into the sidecar.
- Ability to add small text for credits or notes in the side car. Right now there is not a clean way to give photo, video, or map credit.
- Increase map setting options beyond only allowing or not allowing a legend. It would be nice to be able to choose legend placement, if you wanted a home button or other basic map options. It would also be nice to have a pop-up option that does not convert the pop-up to a table layout.
- Add the option to have cards that are right image/left text card instead of only a left image option.
- Add a credits section or WYSIWYG html block to customize your own.
Here are some additional functionality requests/ things I've noticed while working with the new Story Map template:
Requests: (in addition to the above)
- Add in a stock photo resource in the interface (like Cascade's Unsplash) (Pixabay is also one of my favorite resources which would be awesome to have)
- The ability to move around content sections without having to re-write or delete content.
- Ability to control paragraph spacing (less space between text lines).
- Option to center text block in story.
Issues:
- The Undo CTRL-Z functionality doesn’t always work.
- When using Bullet points, sometimes the formatting is wonky and glitches/ doesn't behave as most text editors do. In addition I would like to see the ability to mix bullet points and numbers or even sub bullets for a more structured option (visual organization in bullet form with hierarchy).
- When Copy and pasting, sometimes it doesn't work.
Thanks for all your hard work!
Best,
Amanda
