Thread: Gallery - thumbnails question

Hello,

If I'm not in the right thread please move me where I belong.

In the Photo Gallery Properties window there is something I don't quite understand.

Generate thumbnail images - I get thumbnail images whether or not I check this box. But when I do check it the Prefix box lights up. What is that all about, please? What do I do with it?

Thank you,
Deet
www.h-denterprises.com

Hi, it will drop the thumbnail in size to about half the kbs to help with page loading times. (depending in the size thumbnail you choose) Usually best if this box is ticket.
With the light box you get no reduction, so best if this one is used sparingly & for the occasional image.
Faster image loading can be accomplished with making your own gallery. But this will take quite a bit longer.

Thanks for the reply Chris.

I leave the Thumbnail size box set at "variable". Is that ok?
Do I put anything in the Prefix box?

Thanks again,
Deet

Hi Deet, Yep, the variable is a bit better as the thumbnail wont come out so crinkly. The prefix can be left as tn_.
It will add this automatically to the thumbnail image.

Can I call up this thumbnail in other places, too?

Yes it can be done. If you just want the thumbnail you can right click on the image & find the url once you have published the page. Then you would just add the code bellow into a html box with your image url.:

<img src="http://www.mysite.com/myimage.jpg">

If you wanted to add the image to another page in the same directory with the same popup. Have a look at the page source (right click on page in your browser) then cut & paste part of the code that looks like the bit bellow. You will see in this one my image is 04.jpg & the thumbnail is tn_04.png.If you wanted this all to work in another directory you would have to use the full urls of the images.


<td align="center" valign="top" width="117" height="80"><a href="#" onClick="window.open('04.jpg', '','width=620,height=420'); return false;"><img border="0" alt="04" title="04" src="tn_04.png" width="117" height="78" style="border-color:#000000;"></a></td>

Thank you so much. I will try these things when I can get back to my pages. There's nothing I can do with them at the moment but I WILL try later.

Thanks again,
Deet

Dee - look at all you are learning :)