Date   : Mon, 01 Mar 2004 18:40:52 GMT
From   : Pete Turnbull <pete@...>
Subject: Re: poll: computer image sizes on websites...

On Mar 1, 12:12, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> Out of interest, what sort of image sizes do people prefer for
classic
> computer websites? I should really make some photos of my Acorn stuff
> available to others - larger images are of course slow to download
(and
> can be annoying if using a browser without a zoom feature!) but the
> innards or old machines don't lend themselves too well to small
> images...

Reasonable thumbnails help, and then you can have links to medium- and
large-sized images (see David Guesswein's site for an idea).  The
thumbnails needn't be a small version of the whole image; it might in
smoe cases be appropriate to make the thumbnail from just a section
(2/3, maybe) of the original --then it's not quite so lacking in
detail.

But do make sure the thumbnails are pre-scaled to the correct
size/resolution, not just a reference to the full image and a note on
what to scale it to.  A distant relative did that, with the result that
his thumbnail page takes about ten minutes to load and saves no
bandwidth at all!

-- 
Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York