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[surbit100]

Hi Community

I am new to you. I am not a programer,but I know a very little about how to muckabout. I have a website running for the last three years, written by a college leaver, it's serve the purpose. but its has limitation (www.surbitonart.co.uk) I am at the moment trialing to convert it to Actinic. One of its vanila design.

I have manage to convert over 3000 products to Actinic. My current site using only one image for both thumnail and enlargement. I can't see any similar on Actinic, if does, where is it hiding (I am reluctant to create another 3000 images at different sizes and give a new set of names


Also I am trying to make the text of home, products etc to larger size. I have mange to see the page ((P_Index.html) on Dreamweaver and changed it to desired size but I can't see it on Actinic. Am I editing the wrong template. Any help greatly appreciated

My trail site is located http://trials.actinic.com/trials/trial23206/index.html

Phillip

[gary in jersey]

hi

afraid you must have larger images if you want to display them larger in extended info popup, batch proccess them if there in the same file it would not take long, add eg: xl to the end of the new image names then all you have to do on each product is cut image from general paste it in extended info and add xl to end of name (before .gif/.jpeg or whatever)

as for the temp i think your looking for act_broucher primary for starters that controls your home page, you will also need to look at act_primary which controls your product pages your cart pages are also controled by different templates, select from the advanced menu / template manager all your templates are available from here

if your using dreamweaver you can set template manager to use dreamweaver to open automaticly i find this makes it a damn sight easier to know what your looking at
hope this helps

[surbit100]

Hi Gary

Thank you for the reply. Are you saying that we need to have two size of the same images, Inorder to work with popups?.

I am going to try again for the template.

Wishing you a Happy New year

Phillip

[Duncan Rounding]

Looking at your existing site it appears that your original images are the right size for the pop-ups and you will just need to make a resized copies for thumbnails.

There's lots of free software around to do this in a batch and should only take a short time. For example I use FastStone Photo Resizer 2.0 from:http://www.faststone.org/ which is free for home use and only $29 for commercial use.

Actinic does not resize images automatically (except if configured to do so for the cart contents and search results)

Duncan R

[surbit100]

Thank you Duncan

I have manage to resize these images and keeping them in a separate folder. Is there any way rename these images without goinig one at a time. Also my current images have space in the names, Actinic suggest i should not have such spaces

Any Suggestion very much appreciated

Phillip

[Duncan Rounding]

The program that I mentioned in my post above can do this also. I generally just add '_tn' to my file names for thumbnails.

When Actinic uploads the site then all the images and html pages etc will reside in just one folder - acatalog so, although it's good houskeeping on your PC, they will all be bundled into one folder on your server.

Duncan R

[NormanRouxel]

You can do this in a DOS prompt, using a 20 year old command. Start / Accessories / Command Prompt, navigate to your images folder. Then:

ren *.jpg *_tn.jpg

PS if you're not used to DOS, you may find it hard to navigate to your images folder. It may be easier to copy your images to a folder C:\TMP then in the command window type

cd C:\TMP

to get you there.

[surbit100]

Thank you all for your reply. I will try both of your option

Happy New Year to all

Phillip