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[alfa] Re: Engine Detailing (image sizes)



alfacybersite wrote:

Mark Denovich I suspect is having a bit of fun, but have had this
question (however, more subtly put) before: "Speaking of going blind...
How about linking the thumbnails on your site to the original larger
images? The itty-bitty images don't do justice to the work or the
subject."
I was joking with respect to the image I linked to, but I'd still like to see larger versions of the images you have.


There are approximately 200 images alone on the series of 1960 Giulietta
Spider Veloce pages. If I'd included 'click on image to enlarge' for all
200, it would have at the very least quadrupled the megabytes, not to
mention download time - unless someone knows something I don't.
Actually it wouldn't change the download time at all for the page. You would still be downloading all small thumbnails. The difference is that they would be linked to the larger versions. Thus if someone wanted to see a particular picture at a higher resolution they could, one at a time.

For an example on my engine rebuild page, I have small thumbnails (about 10KB each) which when clicked link to 800x600 versions (200KB each) which is then linked to the full resolution 2048x1536 picture (~700KB)

See: http://alfa.denovich.org/Alfa/EngineRebuild

It's pretty simple to do... just put the <img> tag inside the <a> tag like so:

<a href="http://www.foo.bar/photo_big.jpg";><img src="http://www.foo.bar/photo_small.jpg";></a>


Did you get one of the highly advertised new enlargement patches for
your monitor so it could go up to 1900 x 1200?
Nope. It's a Dell D800 laptop, which has a wide aspect (WUXGA) LCD. It is stunningly sharp, and all that screen real estate makes for an excellent mobile coding platform. We've got dual head workstations at work (2 19" monitors at 1600x1200) but I like my laptop better. The LCD is just nicer to my eyes. (I'm very sensitive to CRT flicker.)

Oh, and I just recently checked the speed of my cable modem... 3.3Mb/s downstream, 300Kb/s upstream. It's a bit faster than 56Kb.

--Mark
The Alfa Wiki: http://alfa.denovich.org
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