 Posted 9/11/2007 10:59:59 AM
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I'd like to try to communicate this concept again. The first attempt has been lost due to broken links.
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 90697. 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=http://dailyawards.com/update_img.aspx?ImageID=90697&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 (or paste 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.
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Posted 9/11/2007 11:09:53 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 9/30/2007 2:22:53 PM
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Hey Richard,welcome back.
Paul T:
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Posted 10/16/2007 8:34:33 AM
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Posted 10/16/2007 6:37:04 PM
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Two part process....
1. One needs a thumbnail image.
2. And, the thumbnail image needs to be linked to the full size image.
Not easy to automate within the context of a forum icon command, but anything is possible. If one can imagine it, it can be implemented through creative coding.
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Posted 10/17/2007 3:24:21 AM
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