Hi,
Heres a basic site I setup - which shows you how it looks.
The images are set as 150x150 default, but if you *really* want bigger ones, then an arrangement can be come to (you can even have the full scale images, and shrink them down yourself on the server- but I don't think many people would want that =)
http://www.gossamerlinks.com/...est%2Findex.html;d=1 (obvioulsy this can be made a lot prettier with some CSS - I just pasted the code into link.html, to show you :))
At the moment, it works like so:
1) Every month, a "list" of URL's are emailed to me
2) I run them through my screenshot grabbing script (on my local Mandrake machine)
3) I upload them onto my dev server, and shrink them to 150x150 (or closest they will go like, with Image::Magick's constraints)
4) I then copy them over to your site.
5) You will have a "Screenshots" plugin installed on your install, which will let you just do:
<%if ScreenshotURL%>
<img src="<%ScreenshotURL%>" />
<%else%>
<img src="<%config.build_static_url%>/no-screenshot.jpg" />
<%endif%>
Couldn't be much simpler from your point of view. Its just quite long winded with my stuff, as I have to do a lot of uploading/downloading. I'm on an 8mb ADSL connection, so I'm not slow - but obviously I have to accommodate for the additional bandwidth I'll need to do all this :)
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Cheers
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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Heres a basic site I setup - which shows you how it looks.
The images are set as 150x150 default, but if you *really* want bigger ones, then an arrangement can be come to (you can even have the full scale images, and shrink them down yourself on the server- but I don't think many people would want that =)
http://www.gossamerlinks.com/...est%2Findex.html;d=1 (obvioulsy this can be made a lot prettier with some CSS - I just pasted the code into link.html, to show you :))
At the moment, it works like so:
1) Every month, a "list" of URL's are emailed to me
2) I run them through my screenshot grabbing script (on my local Mandrake machine)
3) I upload them onto my dev server, and shrink them to 150x150 (or closest they will go like, with Image::Magick's constraints)
4) I then copy them over to your site.
5) You will have a "Screenshots" plugin installed on your install, which will let you just do:
Code:
<%Plugins::Screenshots::CheckImageExists($URL)%> <%if ScreenshotURL%>
<img src="<%ScreenshotURL%>" />
<%else%>
<img src="<%config.build_static_url%>/no-screenshot.jpg" />
<%endif%>
Couldn't be much simpler from your point of view. Its just quite long winded with my stuff, as I have to do a lot of uploading/downloading. I'm on an 8mb ADSL connection, so I'm not slow - but obviously I have to accommodate for the additional bandwidth I'll need to do all this :)
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Cheers
Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk
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GLinks ULTRA Package | GLinks ULTRA Package PRO
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