How Do I......?

[jazzmatazz2005]

I'm creating a directory for one of my sites and i want to display thumbnails the way Alexa does.

I already have my thumbnail images and i would like to use some sort of script but if there is way for me to manually code it i can work with that to.

If there is a way let me know....

[speed]

If do a Google search for "directory script" it should give you a selection of scripts to look at, or have a look in HotScripts.com link indexing category. Some will allow thumbnails with the listings.

I don't know how big a directory you are planning but for a small mainly static directory of say a few dozen listings then creating a set of static HTML pages and linking directly to the thumbnails with <img> tags could be the simplest and easiest way to go.

The best option, static or scripted, will depend on the intended size of the directory, whether you want people to be able to submit new entries to you and so on.

[artmaker]

There's a free program that does this called Picasa.
Google now has it free I believe. I've done lots of pages with this feature, I open it in Dreamweaver after I do the initial creation. You put all your pictures in one file. Have Picasa index it. Choose all the pictures, then choose the action "create a webpage", you will see lots of options. It's a good idea to create captions for each picture you want to include before you do the web page thing. Otherwise, only the filename will appear. You click on the thumbnail and it then shows you a big version. It makes the thumbnails for you, you don't have to do that. It saves all the things it needs to work in one folder. You then upload that entire folder to your site, and link to the folder. It will pick up the "index" page and work great. Some examples can be found on my site, not on the first page though.

Try it, you might find that's the answer!

Cecilia Price
Artmaker Studio

[TrafficProducer]

Thumbshots, etc...
Visualisation of how Search Engines and Keywords link together.

[jazzmatazz2005]

Thanks for the info, but i have been all over hotscripts searching for what i want and i dont need thumbshots because i already have my thumbnail images.
Is there a way to hard code what i want to do

[lawman]

Do you know AJAX. It should help with most of it.

[jazzmatazz2005]

Do you know AJAX. It should help with most of it.

Thanks for the reply lawman. I dont know AJAX. i have played around with it before but nothing serious

Maybe i should put this another way......
You know when you have have a link you have alt text, but instead of having alt text i want to use a image like Alexa does on their site. I already have all my thumbnail images

[drummin]

I take it that you're looking for the detailed discription when hovering over small icon as shown on Alexa site. Check out http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/balloons.html

You can modify for your style.

[jazzmatazz2005]

I take it that you're looking for the detailed discription when hovering over small icon as shown on Alexa site. Check out http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/balloons.html

Thanks drummin. That site told me everything that i wanted to know.

[TrafficProducer]

I dont know AJAX

Snap...

Here's some AJAX help