Faces of a.org

[Glaucus]

blobrana wrote:
But is it not better to have the images as reduced sized buttons (all the same height)



The page will load a bit faster....

Ummm...  I don't think so. The image scaling you suggested would scale the image in the user's browser AFTER they already downloaded it. The proper way to do what you suggest would be to scale the images on the server side, sorta like how we are forced to do with our avatars.

Your suggestion may however help improve the overall look of the site, but some images will be stretched a fair bit and look even freakier then they already are.  ;-) (that's a joke btw :-D ).

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

Thing is my home server couldn't cope with hosting Faces. 128kbps upstream is not a lot when you're getting the kind of hits Faces does (tens of thousands so far by my estimate ) so I'd have to keep the actual images on my faster NTL webspace... maybe via an automated FTP upload... goddamn it's complicated!

Hmmm...  Well, if you're worried about the bandwidth of the pictures themselves, you can store the actual pics on the server they are currently stored on, and have YOUR server generate HTML linking to them. This way, the load on your server will be pretty tiny. Even better would be to simply have your perl script generate the HTML and then just batch copy everything over to the current server. This too should work as the Faces web site is pretty static, and would only need updating when new faces are added.

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

Yes yes, that's all very nice, but the real question being asked here is; Do you have any more photos? :lol:  :smack:

hehehe...  Yes, please, don't be camera shy, exploit yourself!  :-D

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

Hmmm, not sure, but ones who understand M-Theory are!!!

M-Theory....  What is that? Some kind of rock band? Sorta like the M People?  ;-)

  - Mike

[Glaucus]

Karlos wrote:
@cecilia

My hair was about 26 inches until I met with Mr. Clippers...

The first thing the barber asked : "Are you completely sure you want to do this?"

:-D

You mean you actually PAID for that buzz cut?!?    :-D

  - Mike