On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:16:12 -0500, Ignoramus12065
wrote:

On 2010-09-16, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Ignoramus12065 wrote:

It is much worse if I do not constrain. Huge images do not display
well. If you want to see the whole image, just click on it. Then the
browser will scale it, and it is already in the cache, so it is fast.


Not if people give up in disgust and close the web page. Open the
damn images in Paint, GIMP or any other graphics manipulation program
and reduce them to 10 or 25% of the original size, then save them as
thumbnails.

But I already display thumbnails on the index page.

So, my logic is, you look at the index page, pick pictures you want,
and then look at them in the picture page -- where it makes sense to
display it full size.

Our logic is "Damnit, Iggy is giving us too small a picture to see
what the hell it is on one hand and the only option is to click on it
and wait to see five freakin' megs download." Our suggestion is to
present larger pics to click through and having them link to their
bigass partners, which we click only if we want to see the fine print
on any of 'em. That would be the most user-friendly approach.
(see Jakob Nielsen's book _Designing Web Usability_ for more info. I
haven't read this one, but Steve Krug's book might be great, too.
_Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability_)


You're just being lazy and wasting a hell of a lot of bandwidth.
You don't notice it on a local system, but it is damn annoying
online. It's your choice, but a lot of people who might be
interested in something, or be able to help will just stop looking
at anything you post. I know that I have.

You can always just look at the index page -- which is what I usually
post -- and then pick one or two pictures if you really want to look
at them.

(See refutation of that above.)


Who just got off the phone talking to a Google ad optimization specialist.

I can damnear guarantee that a more user-friendly site would lead to
more ad display pages, and make even more money for you, Ig. Invest!


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