I've also added watermarking code, with detection of whether the image is being loaded from an external site. If you frequent other forums, look out for the LocostBuilders logo appearing on images!
Chris
ok whats happened to my photo archive ?
Mine too....
Chris must be Playing "again"
Yes, I am! What's the problem - they work for me!
Chris
nothing wrong and its working fine,im just a guy and i dont like change lol
i'm very grumpy today
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Originally posted by graememk.......i'm very grumpy today
Also auto-resizing of images so they all appear the same size in the gallery. Tomorrow I'll add the ability to change the default size.
I've also added watermarking code, with detection of whether the image is being loaded from an external site. If you frequent other forums, look
out for the LocostBuilders logo appearing on images!
Chris
un able to see the picture just the red x again for me
wasn't working for me, now it is an awesome change maybe they could do with being a bit bigger, but good work
edit: however....
when we clicked the photo archive button under the main logo, it went to a list of everyones archive which was good, but now it goes straight to mine,
which means if i want to find something in someone elses, it involves a lot more searching for user names, finding a post of theirs, then clicking
photo archive on their post (i think. don't know if theres an easier way) could do with keeping that link a general access to the archives
[Edited on 30/12/10 by blakep82]
I like that! Much better for if you are looking for specific pictures and the uploader hasn't put in a very good description
Much better well done Chris. Like the water mark idea on external sites as it brings more punters in
An excellent addition - thumbnails! Huzzahh!
Chris - A quick U2 sent ref a small bug that needs looking at
Michael
Just a thought . . . . .
is it possible we could get a "next" and "previous" arrows/buttons put in so that we don't have to keep returning to the main
archive schreen to pick the next image?
Hi Chris how do you get to other ppl's archives ?
i use to just click on the photo archive at the top of the page but the name page has gone and my photos are there
Graham[ Jacko ]
I was wondering this to, but its actually easier now as all i have to do is click the posters photo archive and i'm in. Saves all that scrolling
down looking for the members archive, and if i cant find a post i just search in name only.
Nice update chris.
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Originally posted by jacko
Hi Chris how do you get to other ppl's archives ?
i use to just click on the photo archive at the top of the page but the name page has gone and my photos are there
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Originally posted by omega0684
is it possible we could get a "next" and "previous" arrows/buttons put in so that we don't have to keep returning to the main archive schreen to pick the next image?
Nice... Much better, good work Chris..
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Originally posted by ChrisW
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Originally posted by jacko
Hi Chris how do you get to other ppl's archives ?
i use to just click on the photo archive at the top of the page but the name page has gone and my photos are there
Click 'member list', scroll to the bottom and you can search for the member you're looking for. Then click their username, and at the bottom is a photo archive link. Much quicker than looking through the huge list that was there before, I think?
Chris
Brilliant change Chris, thats just what the photo section needed
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Originally posted by ChrisW
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Originally posted by jacko
Hi Chris how do you get to other ppl's archives ?
i use to just click on the photo archive at the top of the page but the name page has gone and my photos are there
Click 'member list', scroll to the bottom and you can search for the member you're looking for. Then click their username, and at the bottom is a photo archive link. Much quicker than looking through the huge list that was there before, I think?
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Originally posted by blakep82
i went to the archive link, pressed ctrl F and typed the neme, WAY quicker than going through member lists
Well done Chris, I really like the enhancement to the photo's.
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Originally posted by ChrisW
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Originally posted by blakep82
i went to the archive link, pressed ctrl F and typed the neme, WAY quicker than going through member lists
I've moved the search function to the top of the page, and added a direct link from the member list to the photo archive. Surely you're happy now???
Chris
Looks great, Good change
you can now view the photos even if your not logged in, does that mean none members can see our photos ?
Yes, that was my intention. Is that a problem?
Chris
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Originally posted by graememk
you can now view the photos even if your not logged in, does that mean none members can see our photos ?
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Originally posted by ChrisW
Also auto-resizing of images so they all appear the same size in the gallery. Tomorrow I'll add the ability to change the default size.
I've also added watermarking code, with detection of whether the image is being loaded from an external site. If you frequent other forums, look out for the LocostBuilders logo appearing on images!
Chris
Not quite
sure I understand the rational behind that one, wouldn't mind if it was a digital watermark! Not one that blocks half of my pride and joy when
displayed on my banner. I'll probably change it after a few weeks, so don't worry too much. Probably make the watermark smaller.
Actually, I might make it so only images above a certain size get watermarked.
It's the people that hotlink to LB that annoy me. Costs me bandwidth and server power, yet I see nothing in return!
Chris
Hi
In my opinion this change has really enhanced the site - thanks Chris.
Probably a stupid question with an obvious answer, but what do the red asterisks signify?
Regards Mick
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Originally posted by Mix
Hi
In my opinion this change has really enhanced the site - thanks Chris.
Probably a stupid question with an obvious answer, but what do the red asterisks signify?
Regards Mick
I've written a system that builds the resized images on the fly and caches them. We've got nearly 100,000 of them on the site, so it would
have been a lengthy process to go through them all and convert them into 6 different sizes and would have tied up server resources whilst it was going
on.
I could have downloaded them, resized, and uploaded, but the base directory is 15GB and whilst that's not too bad to download I'd be making
6 copies of each file which would be a lot of data to upload again.
So, the site waits until an image is requested, checks whether it's already been processed (ie if someone else has already requested it) and, if
it hasn't, does the resize there and then. The * signifies that the image was generated during that page load. If you refresh it should go
away, indicating that the image was loaded from the cache.
It's a debug feature really. I'll turn it off in a few days once I'm confident all the bugs have been ironed out.
Cheers, Chris
Chris, I'd just like to add my thanks for all the hard and largely unseen work that you and the team put in to make this the very best of all
the Forums (or is it Fora?) that I have come across. Great stuff and much appreciated.
Happy New Year
John
I got a bit confused when I looked at my fairly small avatar pictures (<150 x 150 pixels) - they all appeared huge on-screen!
Not a major catastrophe though, as copying the link meant that I ended up with the proper-sized piccie (I used to get the picture location directly
from the picture properties)
The whole approach to picture galleries is a lot better though - well done, ChrisW!
[Edited on 1/1/11 by David Jenkins]
Great stuff. Is there a way to view them original size though?
[Edited on 1/1/11 by Liam]