ryanfc Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Ok I have searched the forums and found the posts that say change the height to 0 for small images. I have done that and made the width set at 100. Yet I still have awful looking product icons. I am using the form where you add products to upload the photos and I am uploading .jpgs. You can view the site here: http://www.storytellin.com/catalog/ does anyone else have any ideas on what to do or why my product icons look so bad. (the big full versions look fine) thanks for any help.
kirikintha Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 I can't even view your site right now - let us know when you have it up and running Nothing unreal exists
Guest Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Ok I have searched the forums and found the posts that say change the height to 0 for small images. I have done that and made the width set at 100. thanks for any help. according with the html specs you should have a valid width and height with the <img> tag. 0 is invalid.
ryanfc Posted April 9, 2007 Author Posted April 9, 2007 I can't even view your site right now - let us know when you have it up and running sorry about that was messing with stuff and of course it didn't like it. It has been fixed and you can now view it.
ryanfc Posted April 9, 2007 Author Posted April 9, 2007 i took the 0 out and left it blank...still looks crappy
Guest Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 i took the 0 out and left it blank...still looks crappy I see, so are you talking about the distortion? If you set it to 0 or blank the tep_image function rely on the "calculate image size" which is set to true in your case and so it will attempt to resize the image. The problem is it cannot take care of the distortion as the final width (with height=0 or blank) can be greater than the actual image width. Use one of the thumbnailer contributions for this to eliminate the distortion and to optimize the bandwidth.
kirikintha Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 Honestly, I have had the same problem - the problem lies in how the web browser handles this - it is a limitation OSC has without adding support for thumbnails, and resizing and optimizing - I had a site that used line drawings, and they where trashed in the image view. My simple fix was to add a thumbs directory for the modules/new_products.php - but I was not so worried about the product view, that was ok. . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'thumbs/ It's not an all inclusive fix, but after a lot of headache I realized haveing a thumb directory was better in load time as well. I know that's not a great answer, but that is what I would do in your situation. Nothing unreal exists
ryanfc Posted April 9, 2007 Author Posted April 9, 2007 Honestly, I have had the same problem - the problem lies in how the web browser handles this - it is a limitation OSC has without adding support for thumbnails, and resizing and optimizing - I had a site that used line drawings, and they where trashed in the image view. My simple fix was to add a thumbs directory for the modules/new_products.php - but I was not so worried about the product view, that was ok. . tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . 'thumbs/ It's not an all inclusive fix, but after a lot of headache I realized haveing a thumb directory was better in load time as well. I know that's not a great answer, but that is what I would do in your situation. That works for me as I don't mind make 2 images if it makes it look good. So I updated it on the home under whats new and the main box. However what page do I edit for the details as it still doesn't look good there? And are there any other pages I am forgetting where I should add that line? Thanks.
kirikintha Posted April 9, 2007 Posted April 9, 2007 that is where it gets complicated - the function is one of the tep_image_xxxxx functions - there are a few in there for different reasons - its under html_output.php under includes/functions/ This is where things get a little crazy - you may want to do a search in contributions and see if one of those works better as someone may have a great solution hat fits your needs. Nothing unreal exists
ryanfc Posted April 9, 2007 Author Posted April 9, 2007 I like your solution and have it fixed in most areas I think, but does anyone know what page to edit to fix it here: http://www.storytellin.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=3 I am sure I will find another place eventually that I forgot but this is the last of the big 4 I believe. Thanks!
jasonabc Posted April 10, 2007 Posted April 10, 2007 Install a decent thumbnail generator: http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,2226 This takes a minute to install and creates high-quality, fast-loading iamges of all your thumbs. To see it in action: http://clippersstore.com Jason My Contributions: Paypal Payflow PRO | Rollover Category Images | Authorize.net Invoice Number Fix
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