Wow, you DO have a well-heeled user base. Here in Australia the use or broadband is nowhere near the point where I'd consider dismissing the non-broadband users as insignificant! In fact I know of only 3 other people in my circle of acquaintances who have broadband or ADSL (not counting the internet professionals who all have it).
I still think its important to try to get total page size down around 60k or lower. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 6 April 2003 2:46 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: (Photo) Gallery for Cold Fusion? correct but really how long does that take? My real estate company's site is done in asp but with the same concept and I have never had a complaint about slow load times. There is also a benefit to this method and its that the image is already loaded so when they click on the image to go to the full size one the load time is 0 cause its already been loaded. I think most people pick up on that, plus most people have some sort of broadband anymore so its really not that much of an issue. Someday i will mess with those thumb creators but right now that works for me. So i hear what you are saying and I guess a lot of it depends on your viewers. To my Real Estate sight I sell lofts and the buyers of lofts are most very techy people and load times aren't an issue. As a matter of fact most have t1 lines are better. If your target viewer is using dial up or (aol yuck!) then i will make a small difference. But it has to be downloaded at some point Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 11:34 PM Subject: RE: (Photo) Gallery for Cold Fusion? > 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
