technical/HTML ? for Thunderfall

[RufRydyr]

I thought I'd ask you here cause I couldn't think of anywhere else to ask.
Can you please tell me how you add that cool button to the SOTD pics that lets us expand the pic? see image below. I'd like to make use of that on my site.

Also, on my little site I have some .sav games. Can you please tell me how to add a "Downloaded X times" counter or where to get one.
Thx.

 

[Black Fluffy Lion]

The picture expand button is client side...it's done with every picture which won't fit on your screen in IE6. the counter thing is something done by pafiledb. If you want to do soething similar, try a simple flat file counting system using some server side language to write to the file, or even better, a database...if you don't want to write something yourself, check www.hotscripts.com for some free counting/file download systems

 

[RufRydyr]

Thx for the info. Black Fluffy Lion. I'm good with HTML and I'm learning VB6. Would any of that knowledge enable me to do the same thing for the super large pics on my site? When you say client side, I'm thinking you mean the person who wrote the site adds it. Is that correct?

 

[RufRydyr]

Thanks for the links, too. Lots of awesome stuff there!!!

 

[RufRydyr]

Just finished trying to play with the download counters. Very confusing. Several talked of needing SSI or MySql. Is there an easy way to do this?

 

[Pillager]

Originally posted by RufRydyr
Thx for the info. Black Fluffy Lion. I'm good with HTML and I'm learning VB6. Would any of that knowledge enable me to do the same thing for the super large pics on my site? When you say client side, I'm thinking you mean the person who wrote the site adds it. Is that correct?

Client-side means that the code is in the page and is processed by the browser of the person viewing the webpage.

The contrary, server-side, is code that is created ad hoc by the server holding the webpage, usually as a result of user interaction.

E.g. Normal HTML is all client-side. The code is statically stored in the page, and is then 'read' by the browser.

E.g. ASP is server-side - For example, amazon.com has a massive database of its books etc. When you do a search for a title, the results page that is shown has only just been created (unless it's cached) through the server-side code. The server-side code takes your input (search) puts it into the database and then creates the results page there and then.

 

[Black Fluffy Lion]

SSI and a database are only needed for some of them...however it will require more than just HTML. do you have any server-side languages available to you (e.g. php) and/or a database (e.g. mySQL)??

 

[Chieftess]

Yeah, it's IE6.0. I find it annoying actually. You're trying to look at a picture as it's loading, then IE decides to shrink it.

 

[RufRydyr]

Originally posted by Black Fluffy Lion
SSI and a database are only needed for some of them...however it will require more than just HTML. do you have any server-side languages available to you (e.g. php) and/or a database (e.g. mySQL)??

Nope.

In fact I'm thinking it might just look better and be a heck of a lot easier to make large thumbnails out of em and link the big pictures to that.

Thanks for your feedback. Very informative.

 

[Thunderfall]

Fluffy answered the question pretty well.