For those who like to have "thumbnails" of videos

Who in their right mind would even want the extra clutter on their page? If you were even remotely serious about high quality pictures you would be using a Nikon D200 at a bare minimum. The best advice is to keep it simple.

Rita

Putting them into HTML frames would look infinitely better.

Also knock out your backgrounds. And maybe vingette them.

Another ignorant OT-X-post by iggy.

Ever cared to look at the header of your postings? No? I'll help you with a single line: X-Complaints-To: snipped-for-privacy@usenetserver.com

HTH, Nick

You mean a TABLE..BORDER frame or an IFRAME?

I prefer Ranch.

Any frameset, iFrame included, would be a display nightmare. Cute idea, but not for a page where you want to sell something.

You see, I can add a border for any picture, using ImageMagick (meaning that my scripts would automatically add border to the thumbnail jpegs/gifs). It is easy to do, I will experiment with it.

or just add a border in the html. sample:

This isn't easy???

That's also a great idea!

Hey Igor, I love you like a brother, but _please_ don't open a crosspost portal to AMOE. Those bozos, or a subset of them rather, have really wreaked havoc upon rec.collecting.coins, I'd hate to have that happen here.

OK, will keep this in mind, I will not xpost there.

Sure it is! But what's the fun of using a properly formatted HTML in a streamlined template when you can write bloatware to do the same thing? It's amazing that the very same people who bitch about MS being bloated are the ones writing bloat for other OSs and MS.

Rita

And as old as dirt itself! As I always say, "Keep it simple" and you will be amazed at how much more impact your auctions will have.

Rita

For a ebay type auction, I'll settle for FOCUSED. Just about any camera will do. Also pick a background that doesn't mesh with item, ditch the flash, use a tripod.

Wes S

The point is that each border should be the same size and the images should be attractively arranged.

A plain old HTML table does this beautifully.

"Ignoramus29761" wrote > Some of us also like to make short videos of things.

As a buyer, I hate videos or animations. They're distracting and, imho, cheap-looking. They bring to mind every Tripod site someone throws together with animated gifs and squiggles and fat neon green and pink text. I have broadband, so the download is not the problem; the problem is I, and thousands of other folks, am borderline ADD, and seeing things moving in my peripheral vision while I'm trying to concentrate on text makes comprehension impossible.

They're your auctions and of course you can do anything you like, but if you're looking for feedback, there's mine, fwiw.

Nick... Drop it. There has always been a lot more noise on rcm than on ukrme. Live with it, because you won't, ever, be able to change it. Killfile those you don't like and be selective in the threads that you read. It's a lot less of a problem with an ADSL connection than it was with a 14.4kbaud modem!

PS. How's the triangular straight edge coming on. I've had a bit of a problem with my projects... too much time at work :-(

Regards Mark Rand RTFM

Rita,

A shell script with perhaps a dozen lines is bloatware? It is in my mind an elegant use of what comes with the OS in questions (linux), and is available for *free* for other unix variants, requiring only downloading and compiling for your machine in some cases.

I know (and respect) you from another newsgroup, and am not reading this in the same newsgroup in which you are (apparently), and I think that his proposed solution is quite useful for his needs (though I disagree with putting animated images in e-Bay auctions -- they are a terrible waste of both bandwidth and CPU cycles once downloaded. I've seen some e-Bay auctions with so many animated GIFs that it was difficult to exit the page, let alone actually discover what was really being offered.

Enjoy, DoN.