users on t1's or not - on high traffic sites it can reduce bandwith too. (Not directed at Dave or anyone specifically - everyone has their own rules and circumstances - and if it works it works)
On one of my client;s sites - they made the time investment to thumbnail all the products. They cut their bandwith bill in half. In our case though - he pays me well for the time to give each pic attention. Every pic doesn't work well at 100 px wide so special cropping is necessary often times. just some input. Instead of having the webserver or tags do all the work. I would personally batch process in fireworks or photoshop and upload them. I have a case that shows a default manufacture logo if the thumbnail version of a pic isn't found or available. jay miller Michael Kear wrote: > 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 Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
