Post by threeandahalf on Jan 9, 2006 11:34:21 GMT -5
In our continuing edumication series we discuss how to post a picture with a thumbnail.
First, you need a thumbnail. A thumbnail is just a small version of an image, so a view can see what the image looks like without downloading it through his pathetic 14.4 kbps dialup connection.
I make my thumbnails with STG Thumb. If you just have a couple you can use Windows Paint to scale down your image. Or if you're a Photoshop stud you probably already know how. Whatever. Just assume you got your thumbnail somewhere.
We'll assume that my thumbnail is at www.davewilson.cc/Hash/2006Hashes/Hash010706/sm_Image(944).jpg,
and the actual image is at www.davewilson.cc/Hash/2006Hashes/Hash010706/Image(944).jpg. Note that the only difference in the URLs is that the thumbnail starts with sm_. That's how I label my thumbnails.
So you need to use the two URLs in code like this:
What this code is doing is providing a URL to the image, but instead of using some text as the label for the URL, it is using the thumbnail. It seems to be important to keep the code on one line, otherwise it doesn't work for me.
And here's how it looks:
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Next time we'll cover how to make animated pornographic images.
First, you need a thumbnail. A thumbnail is just a small version of an image, so a view can see what the image looks like without downloading it through his pathetic 14.4 kbps dialup connection.
I make my thumbnails with STG Thumb. If you just have a couple you can use Windows Paint to scale down your image. Or if you're a Photoshop stud you probably already know how. Whatever. Just assume you got your thumbnail somewhere.
We'll assume that my thumbnail is at www.davewilson.cc/Hash/2006Hashes/Hash010706/sm_Image(944).jpg,
and the actual image is at www.davewilson.cc/Hash/2006Hashes/Hash010706/Image(944).jpg. Note that the only difference in the URLs is that the thumbnail starts with sm_. That's how I label my thumbnails.
So you need to use the two URLs in code like this:
[url=www.davewilson.cc/Hash/2006Hashes/Hash010706/Image(944).jpg][img]www.davewilson.cc/Hash/2006Hashes/Hash010706/sm_Image(944).jpg[/img][/url]What this code is doing is providing a URL to the image, but instead of using some text as the label for the URL, it is using the thumbnail. It seems to be important to keep the code on one line, otherwise it doesn't work for me.
And here's how it looks:
Next time we'll cover how to make animated pornographic images.
