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ukbug · 23-07-2003, 18:10

I know I'm not harry but, heres my opinion. You can get server side software that manipulates the large file for you and automatically creates a fast thumbnail view from a large slow image. But this requires expensive hosting and at least a bit of programming knowledge. The most largely accepted way of doing it is small thumbnail and large image. People don't always want to look at every picture but if thumbnails load quick they can decide which they want to look at and then they are prepared to wait for the big one. If you make all your thumbnails just redefined large slow images people will get fed up and not even look at one of the larger images.

23-07-2003, 18:10	#2
ukbug Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 77 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: Thumbnail images I know I'm not harry but, heres my opinion. You can get server side software that manipulates the large file for you and automatically creates a fast thumbnail view from a large slow image. But this requires expensive hosting and at least a bit of programming knowledge. The most largely accepted way of doing it is small thumbnail and large image. People don't always want to look at every picture but if thumbnails load quick they can decide which they want to look at and then they are prepared to wait for the big one. If you make all your thumbnails just redefined large slow images people will get fed up and not even look at one of the larger images.