I sent an email about this a while ago, but never heard back. The board isn't resizing really wide images, and pages sometimes become really difficult to read. Would it be possible to get this small line of code added to the CSS for the board?



If someone were to add that line to the bottom of ./styles/serenity/theme/stylesheet.css, it would limit the width for really large images, and fix the issue across the board.

Agreed. I would love to be able to set the display width/height of images whenever I post them, as people can turn to the source links for full size if they need. This is possible in BBCode, it just needs to be enabled on skullbrain.

I'll bring this up as it sounds like a great idea.
But I think it might be easier for me to just start banning people who post images too big.

Haha, nice Joe. Sounds like a good idea.

Is this a one button enable or does some code need to be edited?
If it's as easy as me pressing a button and turning it on then I can give it a try, otherwise it'll have to be the banning option.
The latter might be more fun anyways.

practice with this:
((not the banning, the resizing))

Haha. Awesome pic. It's so awesome that it's NOT big enough!

My option wasn't a one-click solution, but it's implemented really well. It doesn't limit the size of images that can be uploaded, it actually automatically resizes large images to fit inside a certain width. That way if someone posts a huge image, it still shows up on the board in a very viewable size.

I'll dig a little bit and see what I can find out about other options. Joe if you want to hit me up via PM I'm more than happy to help however I can. I have experience with phpBB and I've helped out with the code on a few different boards.

I usually just upload the monster pics to some
faceless hoster like Imageshack and resize it
before putting it here, but that's me. It would
be great to have an autosystem though, just as
long as we can keep throwing up pics as large as
flickr's biggest norm.

edited to be readable with that monster pic
destroying the thread!

Banned!

I probably deserve to be banned for oh so many reasons, but just loving that pic is enough

Two ways that I know of Joe:

One is to enable resizing ourselves when we post the links, which works the same as HTML code, e.g. you can specify the width and height or just one parameter to rescale; or you can just add it to the image tag, i.e. [IMG=120x300]. This just has to enable, but as to how exactly I am in the dark. Here is a simple and straightforward adjustment.

The other is to use a mod (there are quite a few available, I don't know what's best). Most of these are javascript-based tools that do it automatically for all oversized images. Highslide is one, ReIMG seems to have good reviews as well, or Advanced Box but many more are available on vbulletin.org or the phpBB website.

You wouldn't need a mod to automatically resize all over-sized images. My CSS code in the original post would handle that.

Not for nothing, but the latest version of phpBB has an auto thumbnail feature: http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/#thumb

Also, shouldn't it be mandatory that all pics over a certain size should habe more Joe and/or cowbells in them? I mean we're not animals after all..

this is a simple, elegant solution that james provided for the grass hut board as well. he could even just send a new stylesheet.css with the mod to a board admin to drop into place.