Wednesday, March 29th 2006

Larger Photos at My Web Gallery

I’ve been thinking for a long time that I should increase the size of the photos on display at my web gallery. So, a few days back I went ahead and did a whole lot of batch resizing of the originals using Photoshop. (Having tired of the Gimp and it’s useless UI…) The photos should fit 1280×1024 screens perfectly. Any smaller sizes will have to scroll to see the full photos, or perhas hit F11 for fullscreen mode.

I also removed the (evil, 90′s-esque) javascript popup links for the larger view of the photos. Instead they open in the same window now, with a link back to the gallery. Much more user-friendly, especially for Firefox users. Not to mention search-engine friendly.

I’ve noticed that some photos now have severe jpeg artifacts. My local copies look fine, so something must be going wrong when I upload them. Has anyone got any of idea what might be causing these strange artifacts? I use FileZilla, set to automatically detect binary/ASCII files.

Posted at 21:03. Categories: Mozilla Firefox. Both comments and trackbacks are closed.

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1. Carsten says:

   April 1, 2006 at 18:04

   Maybe the upload of these images did not complete successfully? I’d expect more severe problems if ASCII/binary detection went wrong…BTW, I love Gimp’s UI and always have problems with cluttered PS like UIs. Just a matter of what you’ve grown up with and are used to…
2. David Naylor says:

   April 4, 2006 at 20:58

   Actually, it turned out that I had not set it to Auto, but to ASCII. It seems to jump back to ASCII every time I restart the program (FileZilla). Anyway, using Auto, I’ve uploaded all the photos again now.About Gimp’s UI:1. In the menus, there are SEVERAL items with the same accesskey…2. Hitting return doesn’t execute dialogues. I have to hit Alt+O.3. The open dialogue doesn’t remember the last used folder from session to session, and there is no way to set a default folder.