Can I get a code?

Thank you!

I'll give it a try after dinner

Please note that if the image is a large image, somewhere over the 150K range for a dialup user, embedding the images in the manner Tom suggests requires the whole original image to download before the smaller image would display, this is because the web browser resizes the image after it has been downloaded to make it appear smaller. A true resized thumbnail is about one-third the size of the original and downloads faster to the user.

Thanks for the tip!

I usually edit my pics in infranview before uploading. The other place resized them for you if they were over 50 so its a habit I got into doing along time ago.

I'm using this code in a template and its not working. It looks good on the practice board and then when I move it to auctiva and test it in a listing it is putting the pictures in a different part of the template

Hi,

I tried the code also, and my template looks great on the design view, but when I did a test auction there were little red X 's where the pics should be ( 2 rows of 4 pics) and then the pics came into view, but they were below the red X's in a vertical line. ??

Is the code right ? if I post my template can support look at it and see what the problem is?



Carol

I'm still trying to figure this out

I filed with support and they told me to get help from Tom so I guess I'll wait for Tom

Here ya go:

http://www.practiceboard.com/?2520932

Thanks!

Actually this is the one I really need to get right:

http://www.practiceboard.com/?2521328

Thanks again!

quote:

Originally posted by Auctiva Tom T.:
you'd need to do something like this:

<a href="[IMAGE1_URL]"><img width=140 src="[IMAGE1_URL]"></a>

Avast! To quote ye hearty mate, The HTML Editor: "You may only have one of each image tag in your template." Did I get off course somewhere, or has this been OTBE?

Arr.
CB

quote:

Originally posted by Auctiva Tom T.:
Doh, I guess this is one good reason why we shouldnt have that rule about only allowing the image tags only once.

I'll see if this is something we can get into Tuesdays update.

You do that, and your picture will definitely be on our piano! Thanks!

quote:

Originally posted by Auctiva Tom T.:
I wonder if the programmers could make a tag for our 400x300 images. It seems like that would be a good feature. A nice thing about that is then the initial load times for auction would be a bit faster. Also since it's a different tag we wouldnt have this issue since the first one would be to the 400x300 version, and then the link would take you to the supersize version.

That would be fantastic, matey! Good Lord, Tom, don't you ever sleep?

CB

Good call Capt. - guess I'll hold tight until Tuesday!

quote:

Originally posted by Auctiva Tom T.:
since it's a different tag we wouldnt have this issue since the first one would be to the 400x300 version, and then the link would take you to the supersize version.

I would still like to see the "only one of each image tag" rule go away, however. This would give us the flexibilty of making our thumbnails any size we want. Usually 400x300 is as big of a "supersize" as I need, and I can make a more attractive listing with thumbnails in the 120 x 90 area. This worked great for me when I was back at the other place. .

Thanks,
CB

quote:

<a href="[IMAGE1_URL]"><img width=140 src="[IMAGE1_URL]"></a>

So if I were to change the first tag to the full size tag then this will work right?

Well duh, no wonder why it didn't work when I just tried it

Hello,

I wrote to support and asked them if we could have a tag to make the thumbnails smaller. Hopefully Tom can pull some magic strings on this one.. ?? I'll wait and see what Tuesday brings, but maybe if nothing happens on Tuesday, we could all ask support about getting a tag for smaller thumbnails, then it might move up the list of priority !

Post here if you find a tag for smaller thums.

So, this is the reply from support desk.


Hi
Our old Auctiva Poster uses 96 pixel images and most didn't like that size, too small
We are in stage I of the auctiva.com web site and a lot is on the way. To add this would take time and we just have to add it to a wish list and see what others might want it. But right now we have way too much on the burner to add this feature. Once we get other things of high priority launched we can start adding more tweaks
Thanks
Ed

I know everyone wants simplicity when listing, but we cannot have everything guys. Not to step on anyone's toes or anything - but if we keep getting them to change little stuff we can code ourselves then we will never get the stuff that really matters.

Here is a link to a free tool that will code a set up for you with thumbnails - this gal actually has quite a few resources you may find helpful


ISDNTEK

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.