quote:So, this is the reply from support desk. <snip> ...right now we have way too much on the burner to add this feature...
In other words, not this Tuesday, or next, or...
Two things come to mind. If you are going to make a request to Auctiva about this, I would avoid saying "I want a code for smaller thumbnails". Somebody. somewhere along the way will miss the point and take it to say, "change your thumbnail size," to which they'll say, "yeah, and the people in H(ades) want ice-water, too."
Instead, make it clear you came over from SD where we could and did make our linked-thumbnails any size we wanted. Note that all Auctiva would have to do is do away with the "only one of each image tag" rule. No Java-scripting at all, though it would be nice, eventually
A quick and dirty work-around until Auctiva does something would be to upload each image twice.
Write your code like this:
<a href="[IMAGE1_URL]"><img width=120 (or whatever) src="[IMAGE2_URL]"></a> etc. etc. Then when you make your listing from the template, select one image as #1 and it's identical twin as #2.
This is not very polite, of course, as you would be burning up Auctiva's image hosting space in double-time.
A more fair though fractionally more tedious approach would be to get a simple free or shareware thumbnail creator. They are pretty simple and quick, although some are better than others for image quality. Anyway, when you have a batch of pictures to upload to Auctiva, have the thumb-creator make an identical batch of thumbnails and upload them too.
Then when you make a listing from the template, pick the full-size image as #1 and the thumb as #2. Just remember the full-size ones are odd and the thumbs are even. BTW, at your customer's end, this is about the fastest loading set-up yet, I think. And it would waste much less of Auctiva's storage, to which we are at present, guests.
This is kind of a tedious way of reiventing the SD (and various other's) wheel, but hopefully Auctiva will come up with what we want, if for no other reason than to free up the extra image space this jury-rigged solution takes up.
In the mean time, don't let the subject die. Keep after them on that "one image tag"
rule.
CB.