# Owners of fansites.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owners-of-fansites/145800
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 31, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owners-of-fansites/145800 "2002-12-31T01:48:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owners-of-fansites/145800/1 "2002-12-31T01:48:47Z")
**Would it hurt you to carry pictures I don’t need a magnifying glass to see?**
A lot of people are on broadband connections now, and even those who are not are prepared to wait all of 1 minute for a decent sized picture to download.
And don’t say it’s because of how much webspace you’ve got. I have got 5MB on mine (relativelt feeble amount) and I worked out that I can fit about 50 1280x1024 pictures in there (with thumbnails)
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owners-of-fansites/145800/2 "2002-12-31T02:03:46Z")
One thing I like is how, when people try to create a thumbnail listing, simply adjust the size of the picture on the thumbnail page. So you have a pageful of 2 MB jpegs that are each 80 x 100 pixels, that takes some time to load and render, even on broadband.
“But when you click the thumbnail, the full-sized picture loads faster!” :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owners-of-fansites/145800/3 "2002-12-31T04:14:05Z")
My page (recently updated, in the sig - or click www if you have sigs turned off) is a shining example of how a webpage should be!
Well maybe not, but at leas there’s no popups. And the pictures are a decent size, and the thumbnails are not just a resized link to the large picture (the thumbnails average at 10k each, main pictures 200k)
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### Author:  [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owners-of-fansites/145800/4 "2002-12-31T04:35:56Z")
You really should put more scantily-clad women on your website.
Like any good man from the Balkans, I appreciate the picture of the 2 fine sheep (or are they some sort of wooly he-cows?), but why not some pictures of the women of Isle of Man?
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2002, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/owners-of-fansites/145800/5 "2002-12-31T04:40:09Z")
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> You really should put more scantily-clad women on your website.
My dad has the link.
And I don’t have the guts to take pictures of the women of the Isle of Man. (believe me - I would rather my site was ‘sexy women I’ve taken pictures of’, but that aint going to happen soon)