Robert,
I have been working with the old and the beta shortlist app for over a year now, and I am familiar with the builder features. The original iteration of this web app used some custom style coding and was hosted on our server, so planning to do that again would not be a large problem.
The story map series would not work for the purpose because two important features (large images and geolocation) would be lost. Either I keep the images by embedding the shortlist app into map series and lose geolocation or I just use the map in the map series and then the only view of pictures is through the small popups.
I appreciate any coding tips you can send. I understand if my request is difficult to complete, it was worth asking or I would have never known the limits.
In case it cannot be done, I have one more question: Will there there an update to the Shortlist beta app that would allow multiple pictures per point? Or an update to add a splash page?
My thinking is, if I cannot illustrate on the map that an area should be explored, then the ability to have multiple images or a splash page could show a screenshot of a map or a zoomed out picture of the many species in bloom in an area. All this is to hopefully encourage guests to wander through areas they might not have explored.
Thank you for the help and sparking some new ideas,
Kelly