Image on website help/

[BenWall]

I want to have a thumbnail of a image on my site, and when you click it you can see the full size image, only needs to be basic.

Anyone know how to do it simply? Or is there a simple tool one can use in dreamweaver?

Thanks

 

[BenWall]

Come no geeks? Anybody?

 

[The Hoff]

Many ways of doing this, but assuming you had your fullsize image and a thumbnail version, then you add an IMG SRC tag linking to the thumnail, and then make the thumbnail a hotspot linking to the fullsize image.

 

[BenWall]

Thats a simple way of doing that I havnt thought of, cheers hoff. I will have to do a search for thumbnail creater 1st though.

 

[RichMcc]

Create the thumbnail from the original using ImageReady or photoshop, insert the thumbnail image into your page, add a link to the image and point it at the larger pic.
You'll need to add target="_blank" to get it to pop up in a seperate window.
e.g
<a href="path\to\large_image" target="_blank"><img src="path\to\thumbnail" border="0" /></a>

 

[The Hoff]

Nah, just resize your images and save them as seperate files, easily done.

 

[RichMcc]

If you dont have the software you can use photobucket to resize it for you. upload your original pic, click on it from your album then above the image theres an option to resize as a thumbnail. once resized simple save it back to your PC with a different file name and your sorted.

 

[BenWall]

Okay thanks guys, i m at college at the moment and I only have fireworks as a image editor, can I export an image as a thumbnail using this somehow?

 

[RichMcc]

Yes you can! You'll be looking to resize the image but I've only briefly looked at fireworks so cant help you out much Im affraid, Im more a photoshop man but its bound to have a function to resize in there.
Just open up the original, resize and save with a different file name.

 

[BenWall]

Yer done it now.

 

[The Hoff]

Goooooooo team CS

 

[KDF]

I did a simmilar thing for a guys website I worked on, basically he wanted a simple way to update the images on a site.

I wrote a php script that reads all images from a folder, auto generates the code for the page, the clickable links and the pop up window for the full size versions. The script would check to see if there was a thumbnail of the image already, if not it automatically created a thumbnail.

Want to add an image to the gallery just drop it in the folder and all the code will auto update on the webpage including creating the new thumbnail

 

[BenWall]

I did a simmilar thing for a guys website I worked on, basically he wanted a simple way to update the images on a site.

I wrote a php script that reads all images from a folder, auto generates the code for the page, the clickable links and the pop up window for the full size versions. The script would check to see if there was a thumbnail of the image already, if not it automatically created a thumbnail.

Want to add an image to the gallery just drop it in the folder and all the code will auto update on the webpage including creating the new thumbnail

Don't fancy pm'ing that php do you?

Would be very greatful.

 

[Adams_16v]

my online shop does that very same thing. works a treat and saves manualy reducing the images.

 

[KDF]

Sorry bud, dont have it handy as its on a remote server that I no longer have access too..

It wouldn't be too hard to quickly write one though.. if I get a chance i'll create a function/class for you. You need the GD library installed with PHP though to do the image resizing.

 

[RichMcc]

Its also very easy in C# ASP.Net written similar code to the php above.
But you asked for the simple version