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New announcment!

Now introducing: an actual rule #6! surprised
Though not so much a rule...more of a guide-line really. 3nodding


I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed, but in the "This Just In" (new art) thread, when a new page starts many people post quickly, but as the page grows longer, posting slows greatly. This--I believe--is because the page takes so long to load with so many (often large) pictures on it. Once a few people have posted, there are usually quite a few images to load and people with slow connections can't handle the load time it takes to view the page. The people who would post near the bottom of the page, would rather wait for a new page, knowing that many people won't see thier new art as they don't want to wait on the page...I kow I am guilty of both sides of this personally--I don't want to post my own art at the bottom of a page, and sometimes, I just can't handle the load time and miss other people's art. sweatdrop

In an attempt to draw back in those with slow connections, and to encourage people to post more....um...well, not at the top of the page only... xd ;; (anyone have the word I'm looking for here? whee ), I'm going to ask that people use thumbnails to link thier images if they can easily do so. I do not ask that you create thumbnails just for us, but I know most of us host our pictures on photobucket and photobucket automatically generates thumbnails for you! surprised Again, this is not a rule, you will not get in trouble for posting full-sized images, however, I do strongly urge you to use thumbnails if you can easily do so!




So, how exactly do you take advantage of photobucket's automatically generated thumbnails? Easy!

Example:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/Raesha/luciole.jpg <--original full-sized image
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/Raesha/th_luciole.jpg <--photobucket auto-generated thumbnail of same image, please note the bold red part

By adding "th_" immediatly before the filename of any image stored in photobucket, you can pull up the auto-generated thumbnail image.

Then, simply post the thumbnail image and make it a link to the large image, like so:

Example:

^--- This code gives you this ---v

heheh...it never occured to me until just recently to use them. whee I didn't realize they were so easy to pull up by just adding"th_" to the file name. 3nodding If you want to go through and re-seize your pics, that's fine....harder, but fine. xp Like I said before too, it's not a rule really....just something I'd really like to see people do when possible. ^_^;; Sometimes this page load sooooooo slow! gonk I'm not so concerned with image size as I am file size, since file size is what makes an image take long to load.

With the photobucket thumbnails, basically all you're doing is getting the image thumbnail that the gallery shows xd

If I used photobucket I'd do that, but making thumbnails would be a lot of work. sweatdrop

I guess I'll just link to things.

http://noraboo.nuwen.net/pub/Gaia/avatar_art/rukawagf.jpg

and a few neat art contest submissions:

http://noraboo.nuwen.net/pub/Gaia/avatar_art/art_contest/tasai.jpg

http://noraboo.nuwen.net/pub/Gaia/avatar_art/art_contest/kinkz.jpg

http://noraboo.nuwen.net/pub/Gaia/avatar_art/art_contest/anlina.jpg

http://noraboo.nuwen.net/pub/Gaia/avatar_art/art_contest/fiareFox.jpg

http://noraboo.nuwen.net/pub/Gaia/avatar_art/art_contest/gahaku.jpg

Comission of Adult Yovela done by Sleepar heart

If you don't use photobucket, then don't worry about it. ^_^ Even is just like half of the poeple use thumbs instead of full images, the pages will load so much faster! 3nodding Please, I don't want anyone to feel they can't post thier pics at full size if thay want/have to! ^_^;

And, OMG, I love that fiareFox piece!! xd Dino's mouth cracks me up, and the poor poor Panda hat! gonk Poor panda... *gives it a leaf*


Yovie--I'm not usually a fan of rainbow colors, but that looks nice! ^_^

To all of you who are interested...deviantart's Ashia-chan started taking rl commissions^^. Her drawing style is really nice, and prices start from 5$ ^^.
http://ashia-chan.deviantart.com/