Hey Gang,
An old saying goes that 'a picture speaks a thousand words'. In cyber land large pictures equal millons of bytes of data. Large pictures are GREAT for use on profile pages, registry pages, and personal web pages (and are encouraged!), but in the forums, because of their higher 'look-n-see' activity, smaller is better - especially for signature images. Many members (myself included) for whatever reason do not have access to high speed internet connections. Using a dialup modem means suffering through long wait times for a page to display while a large picture is being downloaded (for example, pictures that load in seconds on a cable or network connection can take as many
minutes to load on a modem connection).
Please be kind to all by making a smaller version of your picture (400 pixels wide or less) and using it as a hot link to the larger picture. That way those of us on slower connections can pick and choose which larger pictures to take a look at. If you need help resizing a picture feel free to ask any moderator for assistance.
Here's how to make a smaller picture a hot link to a larger picture. Just replace all the ? (question marks) with | (vertical bars or pipes).
?URL=http://WebSiteURL/LargePictureFilePathAndName??IMG?http://WebSiteURL/SmallerPictureFilePathAndName?/IMG??/URL?
- or for the image in my signature below -
?URL=https://www.c3vr.com/member_uploads/401_500/419/ITSA70_35.JPG??IMG?https://www.c3vr.com/member_uploads/401_500/419/Itsa70_36a.jpg?/IMG??/URL?
To see how it works just click on the picture of
"The Toy" below. All of us on dialup connections
thank you...!!! |UPDATED|8/6/2003 6:46:34 PM|/UPDATED|
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Jim Olson
"The Toys"...!!! Save the Wave!
Where I've been in a Corvette...!!!