Windows Explorer issues?!

[dermit]

Use Photoshop or another image program, and shrink a copy of the original file to the exact pixel size you want for the large image display. Save it as a jpeg of whatever quality you need to look good (more than about 9/12 is usually not distinguishable on the screen), then take the original and shrink it to the medium image pixel display size, and the same for the small image (this will become the "base" image filename).

It doesn't matter how many pixels are in the original file, it can never look better at a certain display size than a copy in the exact pixel display size.

This is exactly how I did all my images. Saving them to jpg at highest quality(which is 12). What step am I missing?

[gjh42]

Save it as a jpeg of whatever quality you need to look good (more than about 9/12 is usually not distinguishable on the screen) The file size difference between 9 and 12 quality can be significant.

[dermit]

Hello, I am digging up this old thread in hopes that someone can help me with the solution. I haven't been able to fix this still, and it's becoming a major problem. We have some major clients that have been looking on our site and have come across it and it's really awful. This is an emergency on our end. I will try to pay someone out of my own pocket to help fix this, as I don't have the coding experience to fix browser compatibility issues without someone else giving me what is needed.

I have no idea why some of the images are doing it and others are not, when I do the exact same thing for each of them. For the best example of my problem, open IE and go to the photography section. You will clearly see some working fine, and others with a red X.

Please contact me if you have any ideas. Thank you!

www.bullardpublishing.com

[gjh42]

I think it is a file size issue. In IE8, I see two thumbnails on the Photography page (Back Off and Defending His Harem); those are the ones that have "reasonable" file sizes (though 45k and 35k are still too big for images of those dimensions). The three images that are not displaying are 596k, 600k and 590k. This is far too big for any reasonable "large" image, never mind 166x120 px thumbnails.

Optimize your images and then see if you still have problems.


By the way, did you ever fix the validation issues mentioned above? If not, try to do that before asking again.

[badarac]

Hello, I am digging up this old thread in hopes that someone can help me with the solution. I haven't been able to fix this still, and it's becoming a major problem. We have some major clients that have been looking on our site and have come across it and it's really awful. This is an emergency on our end. I will try to pay someone out of my own pocket to help fix this, as I don't have the coding experience to fix browser compatibility issues without someone else giving me what is needed.

I have no idea why some of the images are doing it and others are not, when I do the exact same thing for each of them. For the best example of my problem, open IE and go to the photography section. You will clearly see some working fine, and others with a red X.

Please contact me if you have any ideas. Thank you!

www.bullardpublishing.com

Check out this post. Seem like an identical problem with a fix http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showpo...4&postcount=13

[gjh42]

From that same thread, post #11:

"I iam new here, but I had a simular problem and it was that the image was to big."

[dermit]

Save it as a jpeg of whatever quality you need to look good (more than about 9/12 is usually not distinguishable on the screen) The file size difference between 9 and 12 quality can be significant.

Thank you guys for the feed back!
I am slightly confused though, please assist.

For example Back Off is the same size dimensions but 45k, and that was saved as a jpg @ 12. However I just redownloaded Bathed in Morning Light, which is 500k+ and saved it as a jpg @ 9. Its still HUGE! 577k!
I don't know what the difference is between the two, anything else to try?

Thanks!

[gjh42]

The pixel dimensions of the image are the first critical factor. Load a copy of the image into Photoshop and reduce its "Image Size" to the pixel dimensions you want it to display at (in this case, something like 166x200 px). Then save for web at whatever quality you need.

[thedjphat]

you may want to check your IE8/7 stylesheets for problems - IE doesn't handle css all that well.

[gjh42]

From what I have seen, the only variable between images that display (in this site) and those that do not is image filesize.