I’m up way to early in the morning. Not sure why I couldn’t sleep, though I am pretty stressed out right now with a writing deadline that seems almost impossible (yep it’s impossible), three-hour workshop tomorrow to prepare for, handouts for a virtual presentation due Tuesday, a podcast that’s resting in my portable recorder that’s clambering to get out, and then all of this really interesting stuff coming into my aggregator. I love what I do 😉
Anyway, here’s a little hack that I downloaded from Cabel Maxfield Sassers blog site called Fancy Zoom. He has pretty clear instructions on the page, but the affect is this. If you post a thumbnail sized version of a photo in your blog post, but hyperlink the photo to a larger version of the photo, or some other photo if you’re just playing with folks then clicking the thumbnail causes the larger version to zoom out.
Click this photo I took in Saint Ives, Cornwall a few weeks ago to see the effect — I hope.
Wow! It worked!
Tags: warlick, image hack
Davie, great little tool! One word: it works great on your web site, but it got stripped somehow when it came through Google Reader. There is opens a separate photo window as you would normally expect. Best to you, and thanks for all the good work!
Is this legal to do under the whole “fair use” idea? Just wondering as it is a hot topic in my school system. It is a neat tool and if it is in compliance, I’d like to try it.
It’s a good question, Doug. First, I am not an attorney and am not qualified to give advice about copyright. But, as a practice, I try to use only images in my blog that I have taken or produced myself or that are explicitly licensed under Creative Commons — usually getting images from Flickr’s Creative Commons database. The picture above is one that I took.
Anyway have other advice?
Love this hack, thanks D!
John Martin
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