Thumbnails

Thank you Sussex Gadener. I'll try that again. It failed the last time I tried it.

 

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7591/pict0448.jpg

We'll see if pasting this in here works.

 

Well, it works if you click the link but it wasn't what I was hoping for.

 

http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7591/pict0448.jpg

I'll see if this works.

 

Last chance.

 

Well that worked but it's still a thumbnail and doesn't expand as much as I would like it to.

I would really like to get that tool bar with the image icon.

 

"I'm running XP and using Internet Explorer 7"

Hmmm ... I checked the code on the page here, nothing fancy that I could see - it just "displays" an image from the site.

If you had images turned off in your browser you wouldn't see any images here ...

... hard to imagine why those particular toolbar images are not displaying for you, but I think it has to be your browser, but for the life of me I can't imagine why.

 

You need to put [IMG] tags around the link to your Image like this:

[IMG]http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7591/pict0448.jpg[/IMG]

and then it should display like this, instead of the "link":

 

Thank you Kristen. It's really strange. I can see all the other images, there's just no tool bar in the message boxes. My son in law is a computer genius so I'll try asking him.

 

" doesn't expand as much as I would like it to."

Its the same size, believe it or not!, as the embedded image above! (Well, so my browser says ...)

 

Thumbnail pictures - the (Probable) reason.

If you have a large picture (say the size of your screen) it could be 5mb in file size (How much space it uses to keep it on a computer)

So if you have a web page that has say 4 pictures on it, that is 20mb (4 x 5 = 20 )

Now suppose you go to this website page (The one with 20mb of pictures) and lets us say your modem takes 1 second to download 1mb

You will have to wait 20 seconds for all the pictures to download

In internet time, 20 seconds is like for ever, and if some one is advertising something, they know you will not wait 20 seconds to see the pictures.

Some one came up with the idea of a thumbnail

A thumbnail picture is considerably smaller than the original.

So lets say a thumbnail is as big as a 10p coin, but its file size is 100kb

That means its size on the computer is about 50,000 times smaller than the original so it will only take a fraction of a second to download.

But if you want to see the whole picture you click on the thumbnail (and have to wait), and if you don’t want to see it, you don't click

Some websites offer free picture hosting they do most of the work for you, but (I don’t know why) but after some time free picture hosting websites will remove your pictures, so if they are on a forum, they will no longer be available for any one to see, and also despite the instructions given by such sites, some people still get putting pictures into their posts wrong. There was also a free picture hosting website that totally closed down, millions of pictures were “lost”

The other thing is if you own a website, you have a “download limit” which can easily be exceeded by people downloading big file size pictures, so again, by showing a thumbnail picture, you can save money.

Gardeners corner has its own picture hosting facilities, (albums), so at least if you use these, so long as GC is here, so should your pictures.

Since most people now have broadband the same rules still apply, but the size of things has gone up. Years ago a 5mb picture could have taken 5 minutes to down load.