Re: TelaFirma - X-Cart Dynamic Image Generator
I am still waiting for replies from Telafirma too, 2 weeks now... I can answer some questions here though:
> can google and yahoo crawler my original images, so that they can be listed in image search ?
Yes and No.
No because the original image files are no longer shown on the page, only the cached images are.
Yes because the the cached images are exact copies of the orginals, just at a different resolution.
What you lose is the ability to put keywords in the image filename, but as long as you use the alt="" tag appropriately (supported by this mod) any difference should be negligable.
> 1) What is the directory name the images will be stored in?
Mod generated images go in: images/cache
> 2) In my excel file will i only need to specify one file name from that directory for both thumbnail & product images?
I had problems with importing images, as the import seemed to loose all the detailed images. Here's how I got it to work:
1. Load up all main product images to a temp directory on the server (to be used as thumbs and first product detail image)
2. In the import file, just put down the image filename.
3. When importing, select options and specifiy the full path to the directory.
4. Upload all detialed images to another temp directory.
5. Create a new import file, this time for detailed images, again specifying just the image filename.
6. Import the 2nd file, remembering to change the import image path in import options.
> 3) If so what will be the path? Must i specify the full path or just the filename?
Specifiy the filename in the file, and set the full path in the import options.
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