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Viewfinder is in its public beta phase and we welcome your ideas and comments about how we can improve the website or how we communicate with you through Ask Bristol or Viewfinder.

Click here to vote for other improvements that have been suggested or add an idea of your own.

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Submitting comments by mobile phone

You can submit your comments using your mobile phone. You can submit comments using either SMS text messages or MMS multimedia messages.

In order for your comment to be accepted, you must have registered your mobile phone number in your personal details.

SMS

To submit a comment by SMS send your text message to 07781 482 838 starting with the keyword 'viewfinder'

MMS

To submit a comment with attached audio/video/picture via MMS send your mms message and attachment to 07786 202 404 starting with the keyword 'viewfinder'

Attachments

Video

Known Working Formats

  • .avi [codecs inc divx3,divx4,divx5,xvid,mp3]
  • .mpg [MPEG 1, MPEG 2]
  • .wmv [standard version 7, 8, 9 audio and video codecs]
  • .mov [Quicktime 6]

Known Not Working Formats

  • .rm
  • .wmv [voice codec(acelp)]

Audio

Known Working Formats

  • .mp3
  • .amr
  • .wav

Images

Known Working Formats

  • .png
  • .jpg / .jpeg
  • .gif

Tag Clouds

The viewfinder site makes use of a tag cloud to show relative popularity of different tags. The size represents the number of items to which a tag has been applied, as a presentation of each tag's popularity.

When you post a comment to the site using the upload form, you have the option of adding tags to that post. Most likely, you will choose words or phrases that emphasise the key points of your comment. If you choose to use tags that have already been used by other contributors (i.e. they are already in the tag cloud), then these tags will have an increased popularity and be shown in a larger size in the cloud.

In essence, the tag cloud provides a visual representation of how popular different terms are in the comments posted.