Shadoglare Posted July 22, 2006 Posted July 22, 2006 I've gotten some horrible feedback about the thumbnail images on my site - mainly focused on "they take forever to load" and "they look like crap." This is of course due to how OSC doesn't actually use thumbnail images, but rather takes the original, sometimes huge, image and simply adjusts the display size to give the impression of a thumbnail. This sucks, and I'm sure there's probably a contribution or two to fix this, and allow the use of actual thumbnail images - however the contributions I found that looked like they -might- do the job didn't go into enough detail to really explain what they did, and unfortunately a search of the forums wasn't much help either... Anybody have any suggestions on how to fix this issue? Thanks, Steve www.StevesStash.com
Guest Posted July 22, 2006 Posted July 22, 2006 The only easy solution I can think of is to build your own thumbnails. Make all your large pics into actual thumbnails, name them WHATEVERTHEPICIS_sm.jpg and have both the original and the _sm version. Use the _sm as the "uploaded" picture, and in the description area provide a link to the large picture. I would then remove the "click to enlarge" link, though I do not know how to do this.
Guest Posted July 22, 2006 Posted July 22, 2006 You could also try this, http://www.oscommerce.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=177922
Shadoglare Posted July 22, 2006 Author Posted July 22, 2006 Yikes - there has to be a more automated way to do this - I don't mind the "click to enlarge" on the description, in fact I'd like to keep it. I just want to use smaller images on things like the "What's new" window, search results, etc. I'd have no problems with creating the thumbnail images, there is freeware out there that will do this in a snap - but I don't know how to get osc to use them for these purposes... The only easy solution I can think of is to build your own thumbnails. Make all your large pics into actual thumbnails, name them WHATEVERTHEPICIS_sm.jpg and have both the original and the _sm version. Use the _sm as the "uploaded" picture, and in the description area provide a link to the large picture. I would then remove the "click to enlarge" link, though I do not know how to do this.
Guest Posted July 23, 2006 Posted July 23, 2006 Yikes - there has to be a more automated way to do this - I don't mind the "click to enlarge" on the description, in fact I'd like to keep it. I just want to use smaller images on things like the "What's new" window, search results, etc. I'd have no problems with creating the thumbnail images, there is freeware out there that will do this in a snap - but I don't know how to get osc to use them for these purposes... http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,3770/ Is definitely waht you need. A must be in every store.
Shadoglare Posted July 25, 2006 Author Posted July 25, 2006 Definately sounds like what I need... Now if I could only get the dang thing to work... :( http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,3770/ Is definitely waht you need. A must be in every store.
jacenstuff Posted July 25, 2006 Posted July 25, 2006 Well, what seems to be the issue that you cannot get it to work? I followed the directions thoroughly for my store just recently and it works fine. PixClinic is right, it's like THE thumbnail contrib to get. Images are crisper and quick to load for me. I do have ONE problem with it, and that is that two images on the admin side will not load when imagemagick is turned on. I cannot figure out why, and i want to resolve the issue, but as for my customers, there are NO problems. :) We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ------------------------------------------------------------ p.s. BACKUP!
Shadoglare Posted July 25, 2006 Author Posted July 25, 2006 I was getting nothing but broken image links :/ Someone in another thread just helped me get it fixed tho - very happy now :D
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