Picture Browser

[Chris Bright]

Hey guys i just finished coding a new picture for our website and was wondering if you guy could check it out and give me some feedback. I expect it to be somewhat slow loading but if it is extreme let me know. the site is at Bedfordexpress.com
Thanks guys

[Mike Ciance]

you have a team hottub

[evulish]

Loading the thumbnails is pretty quick.. but the full-size images are pretty extreme. Very few people are going to be able to fit a 4mp image in their browser. I wouldn't go any larger than 1280x960 for an image on the web for just a photo gallery like that. (Always exceptions, of course.. like a high-quality team picture is sometimes nice so people can print it at a high resolution). I'd also aim for filesizes at most 700kb. A picture I viewed was 1.7mb and that's way too big. I do like the photo gallery. It works great and looks nice. I'd just suggest resizing the images. There are some good batch image resizers out there (if someone knows the names of any.. I know I don't).. I'd use that.

Otherwise, nice job!

[Pierson]

Looks nice... though you really need to size down the picts. Just run them through something like photoshop or the windows xp photo resizer and then upload the much smaller versions to your server.

FWIW: I am on DSL and it was taking 1 min per pict.

I would also change the button from saying Submit to maybe Choose. IMHO it just sounds better.

[Chris Bright]

lol no we don't have a team hot tub. We had a get-together after one of the regionals at one of the girl's house. Thanks for the feedback I will find a batch file resizer and tone them down a bit.

[Max Lobovsky]

Actually, you might want to code the resizing into your gallery using ImageMagick, GD, netpbm or some other image manipulation library like most web galleries do (gallery.menalto.com is a good example). It isn't too difficult to write it so only one copy of an image is uploaded and all versions are automatically processed from that one.

[NoRemorse]

if u dont actually hange the images, they may apear smaller but filesize will remain the same. ocdings not the way around htis one

[Chris Bright]

ImageMagick, GD, netpbm

Which one of those do you recommend.

[sanddrag]

I use a free program called IfranView for batch image processing. It works great. Every great now and then it will mess up the coding on an image and it will not display properly in my gallery, but generally it works really great.

[Denman]

quite nice but i have to agree with evulish. Took a while even on the schools uberconnection. Nice layout though
At least they are jpgs ...
Maybe you could put like all the files into a .zip and have them available for downlaod/

[Mike AA]

The pic at the top of yoru page or as the file indicates, banner, doesn't work. looks as though you have it pointed to another site, check your coding.

[NoRemorse]

umm.. the banner on the top works for me just fine on IE, mozzila (netscape, firefox, and firebird), and on opera. what browser are you using?

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by NoRemorse

umm.. the banner on the top works for me just fine on IE, mozzila (netscape, firefox, and firebird), and on opera. what browser are you using?

The image doesn't show up for me using the SBC Yahoo! Browser.

[Dorienne]

The banner doesn't show up for me also, but hey, it's an awesome site! I love the browser. Excellent.
--d0ri

[NoRemorse]

hmm... our webmaster(christopher 8328) is out of town untill monday. the server is at his house, maybe i'll go over there and see if i can fix the problem!

edit: it wouldnt be a problem that it is a png right? i woukdnt think so.. but maybe some browsers dont support it?

here is a link to the image itself http://www.bedfordexpress.com/images/newbanner.png