Auctiva Developers: Please let me pick photos that are not click to enlarge

You can do this by creating your own template and using the tag:

[IMAGE1_ORG] - the entire HTML <img> tag for your original image, no resizing, borders, click-to-superize link, etc.

We wont be adding an option to not click to supersize. Full size images are too large and slow. Too many people would use it without knowing the ramifications. The current use of 400x300 images with click to supersize is the perfect compromise. Large enough to see needed detail, fast to load, and the serious buyer can click to size a full size image. Every company including eBay does it this way.

We still provide the template tags to do whatever you want if you create your own template. It's even easy to start with one of our templates and make the changes to it you want.

Thanks for your reply (even though it's not what I want to hear ). Maybe I'm not typical, but my photos are always under 70 kb. I don't need click to enlarge.

When I browse auctions to buy, I never click to enlarge. It's another step and I'm usually in a hurry. So I miss out on what the item looks like in a good size photo. I'm sure I'm not the only one who won't click to enlarge.

I like auctiva because I don't have to use HTML and devise my own templates. I know I can create a template, but that's not why I use Auctiva.

As for all other companies doing it this way, when I used Spare Dollar a year ago, they had some templates without click to enlarge. I haven't looked lately.

Auctiva seems to design their system for the lowest common denominator user. The photos get renamed to an inscrutable string of numbers because Auctiva doesn't trust users to rename their pics as they come off their camera. And the templates limit my picture size. Maybe you should consider that some of your users are not dumbbells. Many of us give our photos unique names and many of us keep our jpg size small.

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Originally posted by ellenm:
Thanks for your reply (even though it's not what I want to hear ). Maybe I'm not typical, but my photos are always under 70 kb. I don't need click to enlarge.

When I browse auctions to buy, I never click to enlarge. It's another step and I'm usually in a hurry. So I miss out on what the item looks like in a good size photo. I'm sure I'm not the only one who won't click to enlarge.

I like auctiva because I don't have to use HTML and devise my own templates. I know I can create a template, but that's not why I use Auctiva.

As for all other companies doing it this way, when I used Spare Dollar a year ago, they had some templates without click to enlarge. I haven't looked lately.

Auctiva seems to design their system for the lowest common denominator user. The photos get renamed to an inscrutable string of numbers because Auctiva doesn't trust users to rename their pics as they come off their camera. And the templates limit my picture size. Maybe you should consider that some of your users are not dumbbells. Many of us give our photos unique names and many of us keep our jpg size small.

To hear the other side of the coin.

Number one: I'm not a lowest common denominator in any situation, at any time or any place. There are many, many intelligent persons who use this service and in no way would I ever consider slighting them by insinuating that they are less than savvy in how they run their auctions and/or websites.

Number two: I like that my images have numbers and not names. My images when I was with Sparedollar (which is now closed and I left long before it closed) used to come up in image searches because they were named. Now they don't. That way nobody nabs my pics and tries to use them or alter them.

Number three: The majority of templates that had the click to enlarge were designed by members for the members. You could either have them add the tags not to click or they designed them both way. I do know several designers that were with Sparedollar and are now members here and at Inkfrog. Perhaps they could design you your own template to use. It's not hard to use it...You just go to Custom Template and copy and paste the code. You're done and it's there as a clickable template when your designing your auctions.

Number four: Our shopping styles are totally different. I do not make any hasty purchases on eBay. When I shop..I make time for looking around. If an item does not have the click to enlarge..I don't take the time with it. I move along as I want to see the finer details of the item that I'm handing my hard earned money over to the seller. If they don't have click to enlarge..then I move on. Likewise if a photo is too big for the auction, it's diverting to the buyers.

Plus if you have large photo's, there's still a good percentage of America using dial up and I don't want an auction that takes 180 seconds to upload or longer for my buyers. (using a website analysis tool will tell you the upload time for each speed dialup, dsl, cable, t1) If I were on dialup and it took a long time to load in due to pic size. I'd move along to the next one. Optimizing your pic size is essential to good selling.

Two diverse styles of Auctiva customers and shoppers.

Ones not any more right than the other. Just two sides of a view of auction selling/buying.

Peace,
Donna

Yes, two diverse styles. Why does Auctiva strive to serve only one?

I don't find that Auctiva leans more to one than the other.

I could do it the way you're doing it or the way I'm doing it. Or the way countless others have customized their own Auctiva set-up.

To better explain..I have another Auctiva account for another eBay selling ID. That is setup slightly different than this one. It's my tweaks but the the same service. Thus making Auctiva the way I want it.

Peace,
Donna

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Maybe you should consider that some of your users are not dumbbells. Many of us give our photos unique names and many of us keep our jpg size small.

So can I give the tens of thousands of users that would file support cases your email address for support? If so I can probably have us change that in our next release.

Seriously though I've been doing this for over 8 years now. I started Auctiva in late March 98. All of our procuts until now did things the other way. It's a ton of support. Constant support. And on top of that we lose users who can't figure things out. They don't file support cases, blame us, and leave to never come back.

If you create your own template you can do whatever you want with your images. We're not limiting you there. We have a pretty powerful templating system that will let you do just about anything you can imagine.

As to the image naming issue it's working great overall. We've considered adding a feature to not rename them for those interested. It's not a priority though and the way I understand it from the programmers is it would be a pretty big project. It would have the chance to cause current users some grief as well since it's in so many areas of the site something could be missed. If we have any free time left before lauching our next release in February someone may check into it. It's on a wishlist and any time we have a little extra time we review that list and do a few of them. That one is a bigger one though.

I'm a dumbbell and blonde too! So thanks Auctiva for making the site so easy to use.

You can't please all of the people all of the time, that's how life works

Change the things you have the ability to change and work with (not against) the things you can not!

Danielle,

You're one of the designers I was referring to that could help her with image tags and more information.

Hopefully she will contact you as you're work is splendiferous!

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Donna