 Posted 8/2/2007 9:39:54 AM
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Well, sooner or later, as the website forum grows in popularity and use, Eric will one day find the bandwidth use to be unacceptable. An economy measure to help in the short run and long run would be to encourage the use of click-to-expand thumbnails. This forum post will describe how to create these display efficiency shortcuts.
Use Eric's URL (Uniform Resource Locator) code to call up the resizer:
http://www.dailyawards.com/imager.aspx?ImageID=XX&Width=XX&Height=XX&Quality=XXX
You will need the specific ID# of the image in your account storage. It will be a 5 digit number located in your image stats list. For example, one of my archived images is 44178. You should plug your number into the resizer URL, along with your desired thumbnail size and quality requirement. For example, the URL would look like this....
http://www.dailyawards.com/imager.aspx?ImageID=44178&Width=150&Height=150&Quality=100
Copy that URL and use the "Insert Image" icon (paste in the URL) to produce an image that looks like this....
But, the image above is not clickable..... yet. In your forum message text box, you will need to select over the code which contains the img..../img portion, but be sure to include the brackets. Then click on the insert hyperlink icon and type in the URL of the full sized image you wish to display. The image below is clickable.
Doesn't have to be an image stored at dailyawards.com. You can use a thumbnail image from elsewhere and link it and make it clickable in the same way.
The thumbnail below is representative of an image stored at PhotoBucket. I used the "insert image" icon to place the thumbnail's URL. But, I've made the thumbnail clickable by embedding that URL of the thumbnail within a hyperlink to the full sized image. Click on the image to see a new window (or tab) open with the full size image displayed.
Yes, a little bit convoluted, to say the least. But, I intend to use clickable thumbs on all images referenced in the forums from now on. It's just a matter of good manners and consideration of everyone's time and conservation of Eric's bandwidth.
Ask questions, if I've not communicated well.
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Posted 8/2/2007 9:55:37 AM
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One possibly efficient use of this clickable thumbnail technique may be displaying panorama images. Sometimes (almost always), the panorama image is much wider than the normal forum page. It can really rip up the page if displayed directly on the forum page at full size. Would be much better for forum reading, if the panorama image was a clickable thumbnail that linked to the full sized image. Something like this.....
With this clickable thumbnail method, the integrity of the forum page remains. And, the image opens in a new browser window (or tab), which can be scrolled or resized to more fully appreciate the biggies.
Hope this helps!
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Posted 8/2/2007 10:10:40 AM
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| When I attempt to use this ,,Richard,,,I will be knockin at yer door so just be ready.. I am not sure I understood any of that but will dutifully try my best to get it on the first attempt  ... just gonna need some help I am sure..
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Posted 8/2/2007 10:23:04 AM
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Posted 8/2/2007 10:49:33 AM
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| Is anyone else having problems with the clickable thumbnails coming up? They were taking a long time that to be honest I gave up waiting : ( I'll try again later. Sure hope it works cause this is very helpful info. Thanks, Richard! -Linda
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Posted 8/2/2007 10:51:07 AM
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| LOL.. Oh thank God I don't need to take a college entrance exam..(I dont think) I think my previous college credits will count..aye.. got my high school transcript today lol...good to see how well I did then..lol...and now my partyin days are long over...I should do well..thnkin about an "Ornamental Horticulturalist"...lol ...I wanna do everything.....which was my problem back in high school as well... Richard,,I am sure I just have to be in the right frame of mind to concentrate..which I am definately not at the moment...but I know you will be there when and if I need ya... Thanks Bubba!!
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Posted 8/2/2007 11:22:02 AM
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Disregard my last post ... it was a hiccup with my computer  All better now  Should we use the clickable thumbnails for challenges too? Or would the bit of extra effort required deter entries? -Linda
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Posted 8/2/2007 12:00:56 PM
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| I thought about that as well..but I think that the formal challenge area is prob. underway,,it might not be too much longer...dont know but hopefully...and so ..I think twould be okay to not use thumbnails...I am not sure how I would copy and paste everything..I am sure Richard would help though. but I dunno...at least for the polls I would not want the thumbnails...that would get crazy lol... up for suggestions...(Hahn, do you think the challenge area is taking a lot up , innappropriately?)
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Posted 8/2/2007 1:22:10 PM
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