Date   : Tue, 24 May 2005 23:05:20 +0100
From   : "BeebMaster" <beebmaster@...>
Subject: Re: Picture and thumbnail sizes

All the thumbnails I have on my website are 200 pixels across which seems
to work OK but I have a
separate set of files for the thumbnail images.  You will know that you can
get HTML to resize a
picture to whatever height and width you like but this involves loading in
the whole picture first
so I have found it is best to have a separate file with the little picture
with a very small file
size.

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Jules Richardson
To:  Jonathan Graham Harston <jgh@...>
Cc:  bbc-micro@...
Sent: Tue, 24 May 2005 20:56:22 +0000
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Picture and thumbnail sizes

On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 20:14 +0100, Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> I'm planning on uploading them, along with a huge
> backlog of other photographs that I'm gradually scanning in.

Heh I just checked here and my photo archive's running at about 1.5GB...

>  It
> occured to me to wonder what the best size would be to upload them
> as, and what size thumbnails to use. As a lot of the pictures are
> BBC related, what are the opinions of the denziens of this list?

I'm trying to figure this out too. Somewhere around 150 x/y pixels for
thumbnails seems to work OK for galleries. 

For images I'm leaning toward the idea of having a user choice of two
resolutions; something around 1024x768 and then a higher res where
appropriate (camera's around 2600x2000, which can be handy for shots of
things like PCBs)

> www.mdfs.net/Info/Comp/BBC/pics

Didn't know you had any Torch stuff :) 

Quite a few of the thumbnails seem to be broken by the way...

cheers

Jules