Sometimes, I add a news item that's just text. It can look a little boring. "What would be nice," thought I, "is if I could automatically create an illustration to go along side my news item..."

I guess, these days this should be on a white board. I'll change that. [Later: I have changed it, see the new whiteboard below. When this feature arrives, there'll be several different templates, blackboard, whiteboard and several others using different typefaces.]


This, is a fun feature brewing here at Walsallschools.org. You fill in the form:

Google search:
Fridge magnet lettering:
White chalk text:

It goes off and gets the first image for that search from Google images, adds it to the text and makes a shortcut of the graphic, ready for you to add to your news items or stories or side bars.

Big serendipity! You may have to refine your search and try again. Sure, I've strict search switched on, but you need to make sure it's clean. It's fun, so you will, look that is. You could look in images Google first, but there's no guarantee that what you see as first will be what the server sees as first. If it finds nothing, no results, it'll obviously not add an image, to your image.

See the below examples for the Google search strings, which is the first input in the caption, followed by the magnetic coloured type and then the chalk lettering.




# Posted by steve hooker at 18/12/07; 11:12:41 PM to the How tos dept.
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Blackboard graphic engine