The Red Brick Times

I thought images in postings overloaded bandwith? Anyway here it is. There are other versions if this isn't acceptable. As Groucho said, "If you don't like my principles I have others."
Posted 1:11 PM by A. O. (9) comments

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Russ,
I'm having some issues with the photo gallery. Some pictures display others are just placeholders icons and some display once but if you navigate away from them and return you get the placeholder icon. Any thoughts?

Also how do I post to gallery once I fix the first problem?

# posted by  A. O. : January 24, 2008 1:25 PM
 
Tony,

First you register as a Gallery user. If I remember correctly that should create a "top level" album for you which you have full control over (upload, sub-albums, etc.). (This is also covered in tRBT FAQ) After that just try to feel your way through it. Help screens are available.

# posted by  whatley : January 24, 2008 3:14 PM
 
Ok, I had a chance to re-learn and re=admin Gallery a bit this morning. Now when you register (link on top right - username/password) a top level gallery will definitely be created for you, though I think I may have to respond to an automatically created notification before this happens (anti-spammer feature). After that you have total control over that particular space.

Yes, sometimes the thumbnails don't generate properly. Sorry. I was able to force them to generate, and choose multiple sizes, by selecting each photo then going into an available editing screen. You can resize, crop, etc., there.

Gallery is pretty feature rich; a good thing because it gives you a very wide range of editing options for your photos, a bad thing because it adds a certain complexity to the environment. All in all it's amazingly powerful for a free app.

Remember, I added this feature to tRBT before there were things like Flicker and the myriad of other photo sharing sites that exist today. I still prefer it because, as I've mentioned before, it runs on 7393 and doesn't have to rely on another sites availability or funky privacy policies. It has the potential to be a bandwidth hog but so far that hasn't been an issue.

One more thing: you asked if graphics overloaded bandwidth when displayed in a regular post. You're right in that when they load every time someone views the page bandwidth usage goes up. At one time that was a bit of an issue. Not so much now. In the last several years hosting services have proliferated and have had to become much more competitive. One way they do this is to offer larger monthly usage for the same cost. At the moment we're well under the limits so no worry.

# posted by  whatley : January 25, 2008 5:59 AM
 
I replaced the original house photo with yours. It had to be resized which made it kind of dark so I lightened it up a bit. If you want to keep working on it the final size I need is 115x105.

# posted by  whatley : January 25, 2008 11:35 AM
 
I started an album of somewhat recent picts to bring life in RI and elsewhere to the great unwashed out there in the hinterlands. Check it out.

# posted by  A. O. : January 25, 2008 1:48 PM
 
Nice! I enjoyed seeing those.

# posted by  whatley : January 25, 2008 3:46 PM
 
Is that Katko on the stoop?

# posted by  jeichenlaub : January 28, 2008 10:32 AM
 
It might be Creepy Chris who owned the bus. I thought it might also be either Skip or me, but he doesn't seem tall enough. What I'd like to know is who the couple kissing goodbye in the lower left is.

# posted by  A. O. : January 28, 2008 11:36 AM
 
It's Emory Kappels (however you spell it) and the woman holding the cat in the bottom left corner is, I believe, Liz (McQuaid?) from the bus.

# posted by  ralph : January 28, 2008 5:32 PM
 
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