Posted by Jim Higson on 03/08/06 15:13

Terry Pinnell wrote:

> I'd appreciate hearing how others would tackle the following simple
> exercise please. I've finally got around after some 6 months to
> publishing photos of my 2005 Thames Path walk on my home pages:
> http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/terrypin/Walks/TP05/walkphotos05.htm
> (Links to the two previous years' walks are also included.)
>
> As you see, the layout is basic layout and so is the presentation
> method: each captioned thumbnail takes you to an individual enlarged
> photo (about 640 x 420, made by resizing the edited originals). But
> that loses the captions, and I'd like them included.
>
> I've experimented before with adding captions within the photo itself,
> but don't really like the result, which can spoil the composition.
>
> So I'm now considering making new images, say about 640 x 440, with
> the caption in the added white space below the photo.
>
> (As an aside, anyone have any ideas on fast/automated ways of
> achieving that? Doing it manually for each image will be tedious.
> Given that the text already exists under the thumbnails, it should be
> possible somehow to automate it...)
>
> But what other approaches would others recommend please? IOW, what are
> better methods of allowing the photos to be displayed at that larger
> size, complete with captions?
>
> I'm relatively inexperienced with low level HTML coding, and use
> FrontPage 2000 for most of my stuff.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf/?ca=dnt-428
and
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-graf2/?ca=dgr-lnxw15GraphicsLine
could do what you want pretty quickly.

--
Jim

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