Image Galleries in Tarantula 1.98

Imagine a scenario where a number of images have to be linked up in a page on the Web. This is not very infrequest : such a scenario is exactly what happens when museums decide to go online... or when home users decide to put their family albums online. In the cases mentioned above, it would obviously be necessary that the images be of reasonably good quality. This would, of course, mean that the byte-size of the images will be large. However, when someone browses your page, the surfer would not want to wait for a long time, waiting for the images to load. This is one of the main reasons why the surfer looses interest, and goes away from the site. Fortunately, Tarantula can stop that from happening.

Using automatic determination schemes, Tarantula can figure out if you are trying to size an image very small. In this case, instead of changing the display size of the image, it automatically takes the image and loads it in the image optimizer. Here, you can create a new copy of the image. However, this new copy can be of the smaller size. Thus, the smaller image (thumbnail) is really smaller, and would appear on the page faster. Now, with just a couple of clicks (on those numbered buttons in the center of the image optimizer), this new image will not only replace the older larger image on the page, but Tarantula will also create a link on it in such a way that when someone clicks on the small 'thumbnail' just created, it will actually lead to the larger image. This has a number of effects : firstly, the entire page loads in far less time, and secondly, the surfer is given the option of checking out the small thumbnail, and if interested, can easily reach the larger image.

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