That's how you display the images, Dave, but what about creating the thumbnails?
If you take a 60kb image that's 650pixels wide, and display it as a thumbnail by giving it width attributes of say 130pixels wide, you're still downloading the whole 60kb. If you create a new 130px wide image for the thumbnail, and use that, you're only downloading 5kb or so. Multiply that by 42 images in a thumbnail gallery and you're talking about a significant change in the size of the page you're working with. So you really should create thumbnail images rather than just displaying the full image with small size attributes. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2003 2:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (Photo) Gallery for Cold Fusion? personally i find it just as easy to use a horizontal looper see: http://www.dwfaq.com/Snippets/snippet_details.asp?CatID=13&SnipID=276 and just set the image height & width to a thumbnails size then make the image clickable to a larger one. seems to work very well. dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 11:15 PM Subject: RE: (Photo) Gallery for Cold Fusion? > There's a tag in the gallery that will let you manipulate images in a > whole variety of ways, including making thumbnails and copying images to > thumbnails folders. You could use that as the basis for your gallery > app. But I've never managed to make it create good images. I don't > know how other people have managed with it, but I think there's no > substitute for the MkI eyeball in deciding if an image is crisp and > clear and correctly cropped. > > > This was a big blow for me because I have several photo galleries I > maintain for clients and for my own projects. It consumes far too much > of my time, and as a result I keep procrastinating on them until I am > forced to update them. > > > Has anyone else used the custom tag for creating image thumbnails > automatically? > > > Cheers, > Michael Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
