CUNY Academic Commons

Following up on http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/1134

While trying to use an image for a blog post on the featured widget on the homepage, I ran into the following problems:

1. The image selected automatically by the script was too large. If you look at the homepage now, all content is pushed down too far on the page.
-- To solve this, I would love to see either a way of resizing the image OR a way of saying "no, I don't want to use an image"

2. Using an image URl http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/files/member11.jpg doesn't work -- the image shows up as a broken embed

3. Using an image from the image gallery (same image) also doesn't work -- image shows up as a broken embed.

In the near term, I'd love to have the "no image" option to serve as a quick solution to the layout issue.