photo gallery - image transition problems

[akwil]

Hi,
I am experiencing problems in the photo gallery now that I have published my
site. Not all images are exactly the same size, and the image sizes change
before the images do when you click on the thumbnails. Being a dial-up user,
this "lag" is exaggerated and my images look terrible. As a photographer,
this is unacceptable. What am I doing wrong? Things looked fine in PREVIEW.
I'm brand new to FP 2003. If you would like to look at my site (since I
tend not to explain things well) a good example is on
http://www.focalpointimaging.com/Portrait Page.htm.
Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Optimize your image filesizes, try to crop them to be all the same size. etc.

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[akwil]

Thank you for such a quick response!

I can reduce and crop most of the images, but it can't be done on landscape
vs. portrait images--and they REALLY distort! Is this "transition morphing"
common with FP photo gallery? Would I be better off doing a web gallery in
Photoshop and importing it to FP?

Thanks again.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

I am really not seeing any issues with your images.

Make sure that you have disable IE Auto resizing of images:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/customizing/autoresize.mspx

Also remove all spaces (%20) from all file and folder names.

Also add the following to the head section of your gallery pages in HTML/Code View:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="imagetoolbar" CONTENT="no">



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[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

In the long run you will be better going with something like JAlbum for
photogallerys. JAlbum is free, highly customizable and easily Imported and
incorporated into FP web/sites. Why? Because you will at some point run into
problems with FP's gallery...amount of images, file sizes, dunno exactly
what causes problems as the "wall" I run into seems to change. And you will
discover you cannot customize FP galleries very much.

hth.


| Thank you for such a quick response!
|
| I can reduce and crop most of the images, but it can't be done on
landscape
| vs. portrait images--and they REALLY distort! Is this "transition
morphing"
| common with FP photo gallery? Would I be better off doing a web gallery
in
| Photoshop and importing it to FP?
|
| Thanks again.
|
| "Thomas A. Rowe" wrote:
|
| > Optimize your image filesizes, try to crop them to be all the same size.
etc.
| >
| > --
| > ==============================================
| > Thomas A. Rowe (Microsoft MVP - FrontPage)
| > ==============================================
| > If you feel your current issue is a results of installing
| > a Service Pack or security update, please contact
| > Microsoft Product Support Services:
| > http://support.microsoft.com
| > If the problem can be shown to have been caused by a
| > security update, then there is usually no charge for the call.
| > ==============================================
| >
| > | > > Hi,
| > > I am experiencing problems in the photo gallery now that I have
published my
| > > site. Not all images are exactly the same size, and the image sizes
change
| > > before the images do when you click on the thumbnails. Being a
dial-up user,
| > > this "lag" is exaggerated and my images look terrible. As a
photographer,
| > > this is unacceptable. What am I doing wrong? Things looked fine in
PREVIEW.
| > > I'm brand new to FP 2003. If you would like to look at my site (since
I
| > > tend not to explain things well) a good example is on
| > > http://www.focalpointimaging.com/Portrait Page.htm.
| > > Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.
| >
| >
| >