Making this happen would be trivially easy if you had any form of
server-side scripting available to you. On your DotMac server, you
don’t. Would you be putting this on a real hosting service somewhere
in the future?
Otherwise, you could probably make it happen using JavaScript (which
runs on your visitor’s browser) but that would guarantee that some
people would not be able to use it. The server-side approach is
available to anyone with a browser.
At the most basic level, you might try using the Random Image action,
although it might be too limited for your use. It’s really only based
around images with an associated link, just like a banner ad.
If you can clarify the hosting question above, I can offer some
simple code tricks you could try in either PHP or JavaScript.
As far as the slave image technique, you can use the Pic To New
Window Action instead, which does not require a separate page for
each large image. You do have to resize and compress the large images
(i.e.: do all the stuff that Freeway does when you use any sort of
non-pass-through images) in order to use that Action. You would make
your large images using ImageReady or Photoshop or another
application capable of resizing and compressing web-friendly images,
and make them all the same size or close to it. Then you would simply
place your large version on the page, resize it to become the
thumbnail or small version, and then apply the Action. The down-side
to using this Action is that all that gets displayed in the pop-up
window is the large image, no HTML or any other content. So the image
just appears in the top-left corner of the window, against the
browser-default background color.
Walter
On Dec 29, 2007, at 12:14 PM, PrairieGal wrote:
Hi, I have a jewelry site I’m working on and I’d like to have the
pictures show up in a different order every time someone comes to
the site. The descriptions and the PayPal buttons would also need
to stay with the pictures and move along with them. Is this possible?
If it isn’t possible to do that is there a way to rotate the
pictures on the front page?
I’ve been making a new page for each picture and setting the slave
image feature to open the large version for preview purposes. Is
this the best way? Do I really need a separate page for each full
sized picture? I will need hundreds of pages to show all the
jewelry if this is the case!
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