Content Submission Guidelines
The intention of this document is to outline some of the primary guidelines that should be adhered to when writing or submitting content to dropzone.com.
All articles must be directly related to skydiving.
Article Type
Minimum Words
Image Recommendations
Videos
General Article
750
3-10 Images
Optional
Interview Article
500
1-10 Images
Optional
Reviews
500
1-10 Images
Optional
Event Reports
750
3-10 Images
Recommended
Photo Journalism
500
3-10 Images
Recommended
Press Release
500
1-10 Images
Optional
* There is no maximum limit of words for any article.
Image Guidelines: Images must be a minimum resolution of 800x600 with a recommended resolution of 1440x900. In either jpeg, gif or png format.
Should attribution be required on an image, please include the photographer's name in the image filename. eg: 4-way_by_brian_buckland.jpeg
If you need the images posted in a specific area of the article, you can do so by including a tag for the image. eg:
Getting Files To Us:You can transfer files to us via e-mail at support@dropzone.com. For files too large for e-mail attachments, you can contact us at the same address for our FTP details.
Videos: We request that videos that are to be added into articles first be uploaded to either Youtube or Vimeo. You can then include the video into the article by simply pasting the video URL.
Descriptions and Examples
General Information Article
General information articles cover just about every article that doesn't fit into the other categories. It can be thought of as the default category for articles. General articles would cover such topics as technical safety, buyers guides, advice and disciplines.
Example: Clean Up Your Turns
Interview Article
Interview articles are articles that consist in their entirety of interviews with relevant persons. This can be professional skydivers, gear manufacturers etc. Interview articles should clearly display the information of which person is being quoted, example
John: Who are your sponsors?
Mark: Well I recently got sponsored by...
Example: Troy's Senseless Acts and Others
Review Article
Review articles can be written for all directly skydiving related products, such things as gear, mounted cameras and skydiving mobile apps. Reviews must remain factual and free of bias. It will be expected that the reviewer will address and explain how he or she came to any conclusions when testing.
Example: Replay XD: Is it the New Generation of Skydiving Camera
Event Report Article
Event report articles are articles that are written about an event such as a boogie that was attended. It is important to note that this category differs from photographic based articles below, in that they are still primarily textual. Articles about events that are yet to occur, should be submitted as press releases.
Example: New German National Big Way Formation Record Set
Photographic Based Article
A photography based article differs from the other articles in that the focus is not so much on the text, but on the images provided. With that said, we still recommend providing at least 50 to 100 words about each image in the article. Images in this category should typically be of high quality.
Press Release Article
We allow the submission and publication of skydiving related press release articles. We typically seek to push out press releases as soon as we receive them, though may not be featured on the home page (depending on relevance and importance.)
Example: Press Releases