elammers
VP-CART Super User
USA
256 Posts |
Posted - November 25 2006 : 11:39:59
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Try this approach instead.
First, download the free image program called Easy Thumbnails at http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/index.php?2.8
Then take a COPY of all your product images and place them into a temporary work directory. Use Easy Thumbnails to make an optimized copy of your large images and then run it again to make an optimized, resized copy of your thumbnail images saving each set in a different directory.
The tool is great because in a couple configuration clicks you can set the max width and height while retaining ratio, add a prefix if you desire such as "tn_" for your thumbs, and then optimize by setting the JPG quality to 80 or lower.
In the Admin Console for each product, upload the thumbs to the "Image" field and the large images to the "Large Image" field.
By doing this, on your home page and product listing pages, you'll then see your thumbnail images and when you go to the details page for a product (aka extended description) you'll see the large image.
Right now, it looks like you're pulling in the large image where the cart wants to just show a thumb, forcing the HTML to resize a ~200KB graphic into what should only be about 5KB.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Eric in Maine |
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