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@hnla – Deciding how to dimension thumbnails, based on images with widely varying aspect ratios, and then present them in a grid, has been a problem that has dogged graphic designers since the earliest days of the Internet.
Tell me about it , our main concern are estate agent web sites, and have continual headaches with image resizing and agents trying to upload portrait images that need to fit to a specified width and blocks; as a frontend layout coder it makes me want to cry when my layouts get destroyed.
However regardless, thumbnails need to resize original to a specified width regardless of aspect ratio to a degree.
I happened to grab a rectangle wider than high to test with and would have had to accept that being resized proportionally to ~50px wide ending up with some minuscule height of around 10px
We had a property portal site that members could upload company logos to a profile page we needed to produce a listing for those profiles and a thumbnail of the logo and the problems we had with users uploading hopeless aspect ratios for resizing were ultimately defeating and no we didn’t provide cropping as the users would have been too confused by that.
Hmm however ‘unlimited’ is somewhat of a misnomer, there isn’t really such a thing!
I’m afraid that google search does not really throw up any particularly good hosts or ones hugely suited to WP/BP
Far more important than unlimited space and bandwidth is a server set up to accommodate WP & BP, that will tend to rule out shared hosting or reseller hosting as you might not be able to configure crucial aspects of the server.
A VPS solution is the best starting point really and even cheap/basic plans should provide enough HD space and bandwidth initially.
I do stress the word ‘Tend’ in the above
It might be worth looking at the hosts that WP recommend as they are naturally all suited to WP WPMU BP
ok thanks again. I tried it with float:left
it works !
Yes knew it would
I’ve removed the sidebar and I’m using this now:
div.post {
margin-left: 30px;
width: 30%;
float: left;
but I get big gaps in there.I get posts side by side but after the third one I get a big gap then it shows me the next one
ok here is a screenshot:
The big gaps are due to floats requiring to clear the last floated object they have to find a clear line, look at your SC closely the fourth element clears below the third. The initial approach to fix this would be to apply a min-height of a value equivalent to the tallest element; however that doesn’t change the fact, in your case. that the actual content is of varying height so you would still perceive that ‘gap’
You could border each element then regardless of content height they would look similar height or live with the fact or set a limit to the content shown.
If setting min-height you need to set height for IE <= 6 (filtered from sane rational Modern browsers) which doesn’t understand min/max but worked to a broken interpretation of the height and width properties and doesn’t correctly consider them as ‘Fixed’ but expandable so is in fact both fixed and min.
@hnla – two questions:
First, did version 1.3 work?
Second, are you running MySQL in “Strict” mode?
1/ No never tried 1.3, first install was with 1.4 and bad timing on my part as it was literally two minutes before you uploaded 1.5
deactivated 1.4 unzipped new files reactivated, devision issues cleared but errors appeared as above.2/ Hmm Strict Mode – almost certainly not however not 100% sure but this was on my local dev running pretty loose in all server respects and think Strict Mode would have been an issue arising before as I have perhaps half a dozen test installs in various states and not having issues, it’s true also that I have a further company dev server and two live servers so get confused sometimes what is running what.
I’m on the company network so am going to try installing to my local dev copy here and see what gives if it works here then it’s an issue with my set up which I’ll track down and report for the record.
