Sorry I have been absent

Whistle
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Hi all

Many of you will recall that I worked for The Clarke Tinwhistle Co, but I was made redundant :sniffle: from the company 2 months ago!! I now work back in publishing, but do have my own website selling whistles and other musical instruments :smiley: .

Sorry I have not been here for a while, but have now booked marked the site.

Regards
Ian

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Share! Share! How can we go to your web site if you don’t cite it?

Consider going to your profile and entering it there. Then it will show up as a button at the bottom of your posts (like mine below).

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Details are now in my profile.

Regards
Ian

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Marguerite meant to add it as a “signature” in your profile. See mine below..
BTW-- welcome back

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See what you mean thanks.

Ian

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Well, no, Paul. I meant to add it so when you click the WWW button (which you don’t have active). :smiley:

Whatever–either way works.

M

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The little “www” icon at the bottom of his post will get you there … I think… but that link doesn’t seem too specific

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Somethiong wrong with your website for MOzilla browser anyway. Pictures come out distorted.
Brian

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As a permanent and pensionable civil servant, I’m always very sorry to hear about anyone becoming a victim of “labour market flexibility”.

But what happened Clarke’s? Are they being driven out of business by the surge in production at the Spillane emporium? Oops, sorry, wrong thread. I’ll get my coat.

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No, to see the item correctly you need to click on the larger image and it comes out correct, unfortunatly the thumbnail images can only be set to certain sizes, so if I am trying to show a whistle it will be squashed up where a Bodhran would be OK!!

Regards
Ian

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Here’s the bit of code where I think it’s going wrong: it’s specifying the picture be <width=“100” height=“87”> when in fact the image size is 270 x 18 (pixels).

If you have no control over the code of the site (you might not), then the images need to be 100 x 87 too–fairly easily accomplished by changing the “canvas size”–you’re really just adding more white background. Use some sort of image program like PhotoShop or the quite good and much cheaper PaintShop, or maybe whatever software came with the digital camera.

You could also give it a bit of dash if you set the whistle in the space diagonally instead of horizontally, and you’d gain a few pixels of size, too.

Make a copy of the image file before you play with it, since you might accidentally make destructive changes while you get it figured out.

M

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The problem is that they are images supplied by my distributor for use and not mine. osCommerce the website programme only allows 1 size fits all to thumbnails and when you change it it changes the lot, unlike my other website: www.softwarecollection.co.uk where 99% of the images are the same size.

Regards
Ian

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I don’t think changing the images by adding more blank background will affect the copyright and your distributor may prefer they appeared “normal.”

If what you mean is that you link to the distributor’s copy, well, then you’re stuck. Or you can do what I did…right-clicked on the image, saved it to my hard drive, and opened it in my graphics program. You can add the background, post it to a server (yours or the commerce site’s), and link to it there.

In any case, good luck with your sales!

M