Re: thumbnails

> I know thumbnails have been discussed and I have looked at the archives, I > am just looking for opinions. I am doing a small website for a used vehicle > dealer. I need to make it as easy as possible for him to add new vehicles. > I plan to just give him a form for the information, and a place to upload a > picture. The main page will have the thumbnails of all the vehicles and as > you click on each one, you will see the normal sized photo. > > Should I: > > 1. Allow him to upload one picture and then somehow generate a thumbnail > from that? Yes. > If so, should I generate the thumbnail when the picture is uploaded and > keep the original picture and the thumbnail on the > server or Yes. > generate the thumbnail on the fly when the page is loaded...and only > store the original picture? No. No need to make the server work that much. > 2. Should I have him generate thumbnails and upload both pictures to the > server? No. No need to make the user work that much. Although, if you have a competent user who understands how to make pictures for the web, you could actually use method two and save yourself a lot of work messing around with image functions... The ideal system would offer the ability to do both. ---John Holmes...