Helpful Ideas... I think

I have a few ideas that might be cool if possible. I think I mailed you once, Jason, about one of them.

In my gallery, I really wanted to make my page load faster by splitting my title image into 3 .GIF images. I lost too much quality in the image when I just tried to make the file size smaller. I sliced the image up in Photoshop only to realize that I couldn't directly edit any HTML to list 3 images. It would be helpful if you could have a way to upload the images and then directly edit the HTML on the page (for where the top banner goes anyway) so that I could arrange for 3 images to be displayed. It would help large images of cels load faster as well, though I really was only going to use it for my title image.

Another idea is to have a way to add a Links page to RS galleries. Not necessarily something everyone would use, but I currently list some of my links in my About page. I just thought creating a "Links" page would be better.

One last thing I wanted to ask, is if you could make it where we can see how many cels were added in an update (when you roll over a gallery on the rubberslug main page).

Anyway... most of those ideas would probably only help ME out. I don't know if anybody else cares enough for those ideas.

You have lots of backers on this one, but unfortunately it's just not in the cards for now.

I have an idea for this one, though. You can split it up into two images. Here's how:

1) For your main banner, upload a 1 pixel image. (Directions for this are at bottom.)

2) For the "left image" on home page, upload part 1, for the "right image" on home page, upload part 2. This should allow you to put up a big banner a little easier.

However --

I haven't seen this image and I think I asked you before, but are you sure that JPG wouldn't work better? Also, if your banners are anything over 40k or so, perhaps it's a fundamental design puzzle that you might want to take a look at. Perhaps the image take up too much screen space and can be sized down. Maybe there's too many colors. (Lots of colors make bad GIFs) At the end of the day, what we really want to spend our time downloading is images of your cel collection.

Hook 'em. =)


jn





directions for transparent 1x1 gif in photoshop
1) Create a new file. Settings, background: transparent, size 1x1.
2) ctrl-alt-shift-s to save for web
3) save as gif, preserve transparency.

if you have Photoshop 5 or earlier

2) file-> export to transparent gif
3) click eyedropper on 1x1 image to set transparency color
4) save as gif.

I'm doing this from memory, so if a detail is off and doesn't make any sense, feel free to contact me by e-mail and we can sort this out.


jn

Tried to do this at first, but I didn't feel like writing a complicated database query. Chalk this one up to laziness.

I'll stare at it later if I have a moment.


jn

http://hoto.rubberslug.com

http://katanasedge.rubberslug.com

Those are 2 examples of galleries I have designed with pieced banners.
The trick is keeping all the image sizes to the allowed limit. The top main banner is 570 pixels wide, so make it THAT size. Any more or less will not let the images line up. The other images below it ( A and B ) are 270 pixels wide, and 300 pixels wide. If you cut up your image into those 3 sizes, they will line up correctly. (but remember to put the 300 pixel pic in the correct spot, and vise versa.)

Hope that helps :D