When I click on a thumbnail to open a full size image in a new window, the image fills the window and only half the monitor screen. When I then hit the max "x" button in the upper right of the window it opens full screen. Is there a way that I can get images to open in a full screen window?

If you are using the built-in popups, that should open in a window that is big enough to fully display the image -- within the screen boundaries. Browsers vary in the way they handle an image too big to fully fit on screen.

With an image in a new window, the browser sets a starting size that is based on your last browser window. At least I think that's what happens!

It is probably possible to open such windows maximized, but I suggest caution -- your visitors might like their window size just the way they have been using it.

I suggest try the built-in popup first as an easier option.

I guess that I did not make my question clear. When the full size image opens in a new window it is exactly the right size for the image. Therefore, the image has a blue border around it, that is the border of the window. this happens even if I change the window size before I open the new window. I do not want a blue border around my images so I guess the question is how does one get the image to open in a larger window. Thanks.

I just went to the Photo Album page on you help site and clicked on the example and the same problem comes up there too. The flower pops up in a new window that is exactly big enough for the image, hence it has a blue border around it. That is the problem I am trying to avoid. Any ideas? Thanks.

I've never seen an image in its own window completely without a frame. Your frame is blue, mine is silver now -- that is set by the Windows color schemes we can use. There are ways to minimize the amount of frame displayed, but you would still see some blue.

If you were to use an i-frame in a regular page, that would allow you to display images in the frame, but without the frame borders showing. No blue. Would that be enough?

I guess that I am using the wrong terminology. I do not need the large image to open in a new frame I just need it to open full size. Here is an example of a site that does what I am looking for.
http://www.howardmeister.com/

When you go to this site and click on a thumbnail, the large image opens over the thumbnail page but you stay on the page. No new browser window is opened. Is there a way that I can do this in SS. Thank you so much for your help.

The site example you gave is a Flash site, not HTML, so you will not be able to use SS to get the same effect.

The image pop-ups used by that site can be duplicated in SS by using javascript code. Look at this site.

It seems that they use flash to achieve this. There are quite many options to choose from in order to create something similar. You can check out Lightbox and Lytebox on Larry's site here.

Wow. Tech support just got back to me and said that any time you link to an image, it will open either in the same browser window, or a new browser window and then suggested I ask here. So here I go again. I want my thumbs to open without a window border around them. That means either in a full sized new window with my image centered in the new window or better yet, in the same window. My site is www.akastenbaum.com When I open a thumb in Firefox, it opens in a new window which I can then expand. I would like it to open in the expanded view. Any ideas if this can be done? Also, here is a link to a site on the VM webpage that has a setup that may work. http://www.smallcakecompany.com/cakes01.html How can I set up my thumbs to open like those on the cake page. Thanks.

The cake images open in an i-frame. You can find out how to do that on Bruce's site here.

I see the Firefox effect, but for me, although the side borders disappear, there is still a top and bottom border.

In IE8, I can't expand the window. In Opera, there are borders all round. It seems there will be no consistency as to how browsers will display this kind of window, even assuming there is code that would produce the Firefox example.

Having looked at the expanded Firefox effect, I still think it looks better unexpanded, and more consistent across browsers too, although Google Chrome does not display the pop up at all.

Other options, as other posters have suggested, are Lytebox or Flash.

The cakeshop example is done by replacing the whole page whenever the visitor asks for a larger image. I was very puzzled about this at first, as I expect to see i-frames or special effects, but if you look at the browser address bar, you'll see the page switch as you change images.

I wouldn't recommend this approach for anything other than small sites. It is not economical in terms of bandwidth to have a whole new main page whenever the main image changes. But you can achieve the same appearance by using an i-frame (preferable), or special effects. Neither requires third-party tools. There is an i-frames tutorial under Help > Tutorials, if you chose to go that route.

I had seen this before and could not follow it. Since tech support told me that I cold open images in the same window I guess I should try that. Any ideas how that is done? Thanks.

The on-line IFrame tutorial. You have a similar tutorial under Help > Tutorials.

I am not sure we are talking about the same thing and I do not know how to make my question any clearer. The question is how do I get a thumbnail to open to a full size image in the same browser.

One simple solution may be to place the image on it’s own page then simply create a link to that page.

I thought I understood your question but obviously I don't. If you want something like the cakeshop example then an i-frame would do that.

A simple pop-up would answer your question as you have it framed currently. However I appreciate from your previous posts that you want that full image to appear in a full-screen window without borders.

The "without borders" is the hard part. To do that, your best option is to look at a third-party solution like Lytebox or Flash.

Again, let me try to make this clear. I want to be able to click on a thumbnail and have the larger real size image appear in the window that the viewer is currently in. No new browser window, no i-frame. Just the most simple thing imaginable. Click on the image and make it bigger. SS tech support told me that this can be done. However they did not tell me how to do it and told me to ask here. I very much appreciate your help and do not want for a moment want to give you the wrong impression, but this experience has been very frustrating. I am a complete tech idiot. My son on the other hand is tech savy and has built websites in HTML code. He looked at the Lytebox software and could not figure out how to apply it to SS. I looked at the i-frames tutorial and could not figure out how to use it to do what I want. I am also a bit confused when you say that to do this without borders is the hard part because I thought that SS tech support was quite clear in their email to me. I quote "any time you link to an image, it will open either in the same browser window, or a new browser window." I am not understanding what they told me?

Any link, whether it be another HTML page or an image, must be opened by the browser into either the same web page or a new web page using a new browser window or a new browser tab (depending upon the visitor's browser setting). That's the way browsers handle links.

Using an i-frame is probably not the best way to display your images if you want them displayed full-sized. Your images will be displayed in the i-frame, but the i-frame does not automatically resize itself; instead scrollbars are placed on the i-frame to allow your visitor to scroll the image within the i-frame. I do not think this is the effect you want.

Can you state what problems you are having using lytebox? Several people have used it successfully, so I'm sure you can get help over the rough spots.

Hi arnie.

If you want images to show within the same page as the thumbnails there is an easy way to do this in SS with out using i-frames or pop up's.

But using this method means you have to physically have the large photo's on the same page, they are hidden but they are there, so it just make the total file size of your page higher that's all.

I threw up a demo page for you, there’s so many different variations you can create from this method, the example I have shown is just a basic 'mouse over' which un-hides he large photos when the corresponding thumbnail is rolled over, so the photos are on the page stacked and hidden. If you want them to work when clicked on instead of rolled over this can be done, I'll just have to make a couple of changes.

If this is basically what your after post back in and I'll walk you through the steps to create this type image effect.

Click here to see the demo page.

Cheers,
Tonga.

Tonga:
This looks very cool. Thank you so much. I need to play with it a bit to see how I can format my pages to get the thumbs to fit and then still have room to open the images. Before your post I gave up on being able to get the effect I want I spent a few hours yesterday resizing all my images and thumbs so I need to really need to look at your suggestion to see how it will work with the new sizes. I can always go back to the smaller ones but before I invest all the time I think it is prudent to finally settle on an approach and then design the images for that. One question I have is when you open the full size image, can it be done in a way that covers the thumbs. I do not know if I would want that but I would be be curious if it was possible. That would allow more freedom for setting the size of the full size image as well as the thumbs. My artist friends that have looked at my new site have all suggested that larger images would show the work better. Thanks a million now I need to play with it a bit.