Worlds_largest_ships_image_archi

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Happy New Year All, after running Shipspotting.com for 7 months now we
have finally upgraded the look and feel of our joint community to a
look that should reflect our common interest: ships.

The overall ambition with Shipspotting.com is of course to build a
central image archive for sharing our own images with fellow ship
spotters all over the world.

We have also reached a critical number of members about 300, which
result in hourly and daily updates of the website with new postings of
ships images. This is essential for a joint meeting place to get
visitors to frequently use the website. A website with a random
updates do not attract the same traffic.

I hope you find the new design more attractive and the layout easier
to navigate. On the top we have added tabs for: help, faq …

Earlier we did not use thumbnail generation for the posted images
which lead to heavy usage of download and you had to wait for hours
before the webpage was downloaded with all the images "actually full
size since we had not produced thumbnails – but used the full image as
thumbnail". This is now taken care of and regenerated small 5 Kb
thumbnails for all 15.000 images in our database. The result of this
is 10 to 40 times faster downloading of webpage's and severe reduction
in bandwidth usage.

For the future we will start working with the search capabilities of
our site. The search function as it is today is not very good. This
will be improved and launched before the 1st of February.

Best regards
Webmaster
Tomas