Question about thumbnailed pictures.....

[Beaux]

Hi folks, I'm a 100% newbie and I'm learning this stuff one little piece at a time. I'm using 1st Page and I really like it but I'm basically lost, I wish there were better instrucstions for it.

Ok now to my question. I am going to be including alot of photos on my web page and the logical way for me to do it seems to put them in a gallery as thumbnails. For the life of me, I can't figure out how to do this in 1st Page. If there is a way, is it very quick and easy? Because I will be doing it over and over.

I found a program called Robo Photo that will do all the work for you and seems like a great piece of software but it costs around $40 and I didn't know if it was worth it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[Crawdaddy79]

Well, first you have to make the thumbnails.

There are many types of softwares out there that do this to make it easy, but I use Irfanview. (http://www.irfanview.com it's free.)

Basically to make them, is resize the original picture to the size you want the thumbnail to be, and save it as a different file name. I usually add a 'th' to the beginning. So for say, pic01.jpg I'd change to thpic01.jpg.

And once you do that, you have to put the thumbnails up on your page. From there you can make a link from the thumbnail to the original (big) image.

Hope this helps you.

[Crawdaddy79]

The (very) basic code for one thumbnail would look similar to this...

<a href="pics/pic01.jpg"><img src="pics/thpic01.jpg"></a>

[BoR|S]

There is a progie called: Arles Image Web Page Creator (http://www.digitaldutch.com/arles/). Very nice one.

[WebSitePat]

The tumbnails on our site are made with Jpeg resizer
(from this site : http://www.vikarplus.com/english-index.html).

From the Readme.txt :

Do you need to send a tones of photos to your Chief? Do you want to create a thousands of thumbnails for your site by one click? Have you a digital camera? Do you run a website and have graphics that take a long time to load? This little program will resize your graphics so that they load faster and are optimized for internet use. Try this!

What is it?
This FREE program was written to give your JPEG images a new dimensions and save the results into the Destination folder. The Source folder may contain any subfolders, so you will get the mirror folder tree with the program results in the Destination. You can easy create thumbnails of your images and reduce the file sizes by JPEG Compression value. You can run the resize process in background and prepare a lot of images at once during your main work.

How does it works?
The program gathers each JPEG file from the Source folder, works them around according the new dimensions in pixells and JPEG compression value and writes the result into the Destination folder. If the Source folder contains any subfolders, they will be workied around as well. There is a mirror subfolder tree with your JPEGs in the Destination as the result of this work.