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How to Make Thumbnails that Make Your Web Page Really Fly
The long load time on some web sites is caused by using scaled-down full size images for thumbnails. To make faster loading thumbnails, you need to take the original images and do an "Image Size" in Photoshop to get them down to 150 pixels in the long direction. Then a simple "Sharpen Edges" will make great looking thumbnails at a fraction of the size. Then you "Save to" using a small letter "s" in front of the original image name. Below are the two samples of code: Slow code:
Faster code:
The A HREF remains the same since it is the pointer to the full sized image. The IMG SRC now has the name of the small thumbnail in it Click here for my web site. destowe@pipeline.com |