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Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice?
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lugnet.publish
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Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:39:00 GMT
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> In lugnet.publish, Christopher Masi writes:
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> Browsers can fit images to the size of the window:
> <img src="myimage.gif" width=100%>
The one problem I have with this is that my screen is usually more
that most pictures - in which case saying width=100% will _strech_ the
picture, distorting it.
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 19:11:24 GMT Christopher Masi <cmasi@cmasi.chem.tulane.edu> wrote
concerning 'Re: Can anyone give me some web site design advice?':
> > This scales the image to fit the width of the browser window. I personally
> > prefer to use thumbnails and when clicking on it the full (unscaled) picture
> > appears like I did here:
> > http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/trains/shunter.html
> >
> > > I would say that means most peaple cannot get the full impact of the picture.
> > > IMHO scrolling takes more away from the image than a slight reduction in
> > > resolution. Mind you I a chemistry professor, not a graphic designer.
> >
> > Agreed, but this only counts for the 'overall' view. If I want to see some
> > detail I don't mind to scroll to the right part of the picture. This is also
> > an advantage of using thumbnails - a quick view of the whole scene but also
> > the possibility to see details.
> >
> > [loading speed part snipped]
> >
> > > Technically, it takes longer to load a page of thumbnails and then go
> > > from image to image, but it doesn't feel like it takes as long because I am
> > > doing something not just waiting for a monster page to load.
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> Sorry, I meant that it would take longer to load nine 8K thumbnails and then load
> nine 70K pictures 1 by 1 than it would to load a page with just nine 70K
> pictures.
It would take longer, but if I put all the pics from the GATS show
(for example) in raw form in an index, you'd end up loading an 8Mb
index page, instead of a 400 k one... That's a big differnece when
you're on a modem.
:)
Dan
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