Re: Automatic download

Why don't you zip them up? This will compress the size of the file making
downloading quicker, and it will automatically bring up the save box for
downloading. Win Zip is free.

Just my 0.02
Lisa

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Lisa Bradshaw ,  Web Designer

Crescendo Web Design - http://www.web-design-cs.com
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Short" <dshort(at)dccnet.com>
To: <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 13, 2002 6:19 PM
Subject: Automatic download


> Being relatively new here, I expect my question will be kind basic, but I
> really would appreciate anyone's help.
>
> I want to have a page of thumbnails of large .tif & .jpg images to be
> available for download. I would rather the images themselves don't come
up,
> but rather that a click on the thumbnail would automatically start a
> download.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this? Or do I have to go into more
sophisticated
> scripting (perl, etc)? I'd prefer the simplest solution. I've tried a
number
> of things, but it doesn't work "automatically".
>
> I thought Kym Jones post and answers might give me the clue, but maybe I
> missed something.
>
> Help! I'm an age-disabled old guy whose brain cells seem to be diving
> towards infancy fast!
>
> :-) David (-:
>
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> David Short
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> http://www.davidshort.com
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>
>

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