Comments on: Viva Las Legos!

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 25 May 2007 06:31:09 +0000

hey i didnt make the rule. those LEGO people did.

By: Fresh Princess

Fresh Princess — Fri, 25 May 2007 01:35:57 +0000

Jen
It’s Legos at our house.

Ed
Thanks for correcting us ladies, Dan confused us with the headline. And just so you know…Barbies is Barbies.

By: DanM

DanM — Fri, 25 May 2007 00:29:27 +0000

Ed, we actually do have the zoom-in capability (replace width=”" with xenlarge=”") … but Karridy is right, that doesn’t change the file size. in fact it just adds another query.

believe it or not, i do know how to optimize (or at least shrink) photos. But I decided this post was worth about five minutes of cutting and pasting URLs, not much more. Some posts are tougher than others … goes both ways. My apologies to the readers for not putting in the extra effort on their browsing behalf.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 24 May 2007 19:14:22 +0000

Yes…the way it is now…is bad. Was wondering if there was something installed that would deal with images put in a blog posting. by “deal” i mean use backend code to make a smaller version that we see in the entry and then keep the big version aside so it only loads that one when the image is clicked on.

been to some gallery type sites where they had 20 pics on one page that were the original 1M+ images shrunk to size using html. my response usually is “got photoshop?”

EDIT: just did a right click on an image and did View Image. there IS something being done with the images…I think a few tweaks to it should help out. (i.e. make them a tad smaller in size) but doing that may not help either if the backend code is pulling the full sized image first and then making the changes.

By: Karridy

Karridy — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:44:41 +0000

That just changes appearance (zoom). Doesn’t do much for the 385k size or load time of the last image alone. Unless it optimizes natively.

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:43:20 +0000

What he needs is some WordPress plugin that takes the image…makes a smaller “thumbnail” version for people to click if they wish to see a bigger version.

Is there one out there Dan? Do you have it installed but refuse to use it?

By: Karridy

Karridy — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:03:54 +0000

Sorry. Had to Geek for a sec.

By: Karridy

Karridy — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:03:10 +0000

Ed,… Do you want to teach Dan how to reduce filesize and optimize images for the web, or should I. Regardless of who, the other should explain how doing such can dramatically increase server performance and global user experience.

By: Kajagugu

Kajagugu — Thu, 24 May 2007 16:01:56 +0000

When I was 4 years old I built a scale model of the Luxor with Legos.

By: Venita

Venita — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:46:53 +0000

Hmmm . . . are you sure it’s not Legi? Just kidding.

That whole Little Vegas thing is amazing. For some reason the MGM Grand cracks me up. It looks so real!

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:37:14 +0000

Lego Jen. Lego rock. Even plural it is still Lego. I think if we wanted to get technical it is LEGO but that is just being anal.

Got too many of the things around the house and we don’t even have kids yet. We went through a phase and had to buy all the cool sets…build them…and display them.

By: jen

jen — Thu, 24 May 2007 14:01:33 +0000

Very cool.Legos rock.