Displaying Images

[frodojrr]

I have a client who wants images displayed with his individual page search results. As I read the instructions, it appears that a thumbnail is only displayed when the search result itself is an image. Otherwise, we can associate individual images with individual pages using the ZOOMIMAGE meta tag.

Zoom does not automatically display a thumbnail on every page that has images on it, correct? Zoom only displays a thumbnail when the search result is an image. Right?

I have run Zoom several times on the site, but no images turn up in search results. I did punch out thumbs for every image on the site, and they are in an images/thumbs/ directory.

Site is at http://www.hhhincorporated.com

Basically, what I did was configure Zoom to index images, and told it where to find the thumbnails. I did not add any meta tags to individual pages. I followed instructions on this page:

Q. How do I associate a thumbnail with an image for my search results?

To associate a thumbnail with an image, open the Configuration window, and select the "Scan Options" tab. Double click on the file extension you wish to configure (e.g. ".jpg") and click on the "Configure images" button that appears.

On the "Image and thumbnail configuration" window, check "Display different thumbnails for each image" and edit the "Thumbnail options" based on your web site's organization. You can associate a thumbnail with an image by using relative path or absolute path as well as specifying the naming convention of the thumbnail images that you want to associate with the linked image..

I also edited my CSS code per instructions on that same FAQ page.

I would appreciate any insights as to how I can get thumbnails to display.

Thank you.

[David]

For what file extensions did you add images? Your site seems to use .HTML and .PHP pages, so you need to configure images for both these file types.

What options (path names, etc..) did you select in the configure images window?

[frodojrr]

For what file extensions did you add images? Your site seems to use .HTML and .PHP pages, so you need to configure images for both these file types.

What options (path names, etc..) did you select in the configure images window?

First mistake: I only configured images for JPG the first time. So, this time, I ran Zoom and configured images for .JPG, .GIF, .HTML and .PHP.

In the configure images window, I selected "Display different thumbnails for each file, and added the path /images/thumbs/ to the first window under Thumbnail options. The next two windows are blank as the thumbnails are in a different directory. All thumbnails have the extension .jpg.

Running Zoom with these options yields a results page with a place for the images -- the DIV pushes everything over 100 pixels -- but I only found one page with an image showing.

In the Scan Options tab, I have checked Scan files with no extensions, did not check Duplicate page detection, and the only box checked in the third section is to enable robots.txt.

[David]

So in principle you have done the right thing in Zoom. I think the problem now is that your thumbnails just have the wrong file names in many cases.

Taking this page as an example.
http://www.hhhincorporated.com/standard-bag-tags.html

With the options you have selected in Zoom, the thumbnail image for this page should be here,
http://www.hhhincorporated.com/images/thumbs/standard-bag-tags.jpg

and while you have many thumbnails in the /images/thumbs/ folder, none of them have the file name, standard-bag-tags.jpg. As a result you don't get a thumbnail image for this page when this page appears in the search results.

You should be able to fix the indentation issue via CSS.

[frodojrr]

So, I need to create a thumbnail image based on each individual page name, correct? I misunderstood and thought Zoom automatically placed an image from a page with the results.

Thank you. I'll inform the client.

[David]

Typical web pages have dozens of images on them. Zoom doesn't attempt to work out which of the many images on a page best represents the content of the page. So you need to use the ZOOMIMAGE meta tag or some file naming convention to select the image to use.