for me its just a small traffic sight so it doesnt affect bandwidth, its not porn or anything. well at least that site, lol
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 12:11 AM Subject: Re: (Photo) Gallery for Cold Fusion? > 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 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
