I have been working really hard lately on my Hybrid axle article and 4 steering articles.

I like to use a lot of graphics, and when I do use thumbnails they are still pretty big, because I know when i find a good page, i like to use IE 5.0 "save as complete web page" functionality, so I can save the whole thing and view it later with graphics imbedded. As such, the pages take a long time to load, and if you have slow dial up like I do, the page "times out" before it loads completely, leaving you with a bunch of little red Xs where the graphics should be, You can load them by "right clicking" and choosing "show picture" from the pop up menu - but that is a major PITA and not all my viewers will know this, and I don't want to answer hundreds of e-mails saying "the pictures don't work".

So - does anyone know a workaround? Is there a setting that can be changed? This way, I could at least post instructions.

can someone with fast connection also check my Hybrid Axle article, link in index at:

http://members.tripod.com/BillyXJ/Billstechindex.html

(sorry about the "cover page" - but I haven't figured how to move and retain the hit counter, and I admit I egotistically like seeing how many have viewed the page - it's neat to see all the different countries)

and let me know if it all loads ok

Much more to come.

Thanks all

Bill

There is some good stuff there and I like all the info, but a little more compression on the Thumbs cut there size in half!

Here is your compression:

Here is mine: 57k vs 28k

I can't get the link to load at all? :confused:

Bill I have been checking out your page and man o man Jpg compression is needed on a lot of your photos.

This one is 90K on your site, here it is at 20K

DRM - the link may be getting overloaded as I posted my question in about a bazillion places- doh!

Old Scout - Damn, I never thought about that - I just re-sized, but I guess I should have adjusted the "quality" setting too....doh!

Oh well, only about 120 thumbs total to re-compress and re-upload.

And uploading to TRIPOD is a major PITA!

Oh well......

Old Scout - what do you use to compress? Photopoint, and choose "save a copy" and then bump the quality number down? How low to go? It defaults to 5 (out of 10) and that's what I'd been choosing!

I use MS Photo Editor, it came with office 2000. It has a slide scale on JPG compression. I have it set and locked 25-35% and things look pretty good most of the time. HTH

go to download.com and do a search for image optimize or image editors. You can get programs that will batch compress all your images at once, or automatically make thumbnails or whatever you want.

Holy attention to detail Batman. Nice looking site. I love this t1 line that page loaded in a couple of secs.

Attention to Detail............

Heyyyyyyyyy...that sounds MUCH better than "Obsessive Compulsive disorder"

Me like

Me going to use on wife :D

Thanks !!