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Subject: Re: Photo sites, dial-up and image size

Date: Sat 21/04/07 09:34:58 GMT

Name: Graham (Styx)

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You tend to forget how slow dialup can be and what you were used to using not so long ago. These days I take for granted that my Net connection is around 5Mb. And my quad-core processor and a 30" monitor at 2560 x 1600 can cope with anything you throw at it. I used someone's dialup service and old computer a few days ago and I was convinced it had just stopped dead, 'cos things were so slow.

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Photo sites, dial-up and image size

By Telcontar - mrnemesis@ntlworld.com Fri 20/04/07 10:18:33 GMT

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Since MG brought up the issue of dial-up, I thought I'd ask more clearly this time -- are dial-up users happy with photo sites?

The most recent Liquid Ladies photo set, for example, has photos reaching 1 MB per image, which on dial-up would be particularly painful. On average, Liquid Ladies images are about 600 kB each, which would take a little while to get through (something like two minutes!) The thumbnails are too small to substitute as full-size images for dial-up users.

I don't know how other pay sites work, but they all seem to offer large images these days and it must be pretty uncomfortable for dial-up users to get into wetlook at all.

The sites that use Gallery 2, though -- Squishy Shoes and Tub Queens for example -- have thumbnail, medium and (extra) large image sizes all automatically generated. Dial-up users can settle on medium for the most part, and open the large images for those shots that are particularly special (and since some of them are freakin' 8 MP or something -- three times the width of my monitor -- go and have a long soak in the bath in your jeans while the modem sits and thinks about downloading a copy).

Is everyone happy with sites the way they are?

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