Live room preview thumbnails

A long awaited feature - Live room preview thumbnails. TheBroth artists can now see what their artwork-in-creation looks like directly from within the room! Simply click the thumbnail and it will immediately update to accurately reflect the position of all tiles in the room.

And what’s more, you can place these room thumbnail preview images anywhere. On your own site, myspace, other forums… read on to discover how!

How to place a room preview of your room anywhere

As you know, TheBroth offers live thumbnail previews. You’ve can see them in action on the active rooms page.

It’s actually possible to put a room thumbnail preview image anywhere, even on other sites, such as myspace, forums etc. The thumbnail image will be created fresh based on the tile positions in the room when the requesting page loads.

How to form the image URL

If you just want to post an image, the URL to your room preview thumbnail is:

http://www.thebroth.com/gal/pr[INSERT ROOM NAME HERE].jpg


For example, if your room name is “markus”, then the URL for the thumbnail image is:

http://www.thebroth.com/gal/prmarkus.jpg


Note, if your room is password protected, the thumbnail will show a lock icon to others.

How to make the thumbnail clickable so it links to your room

If you want to make this a clickable link to incorporate this on a web site, you can use the following HTML code:

<a href="http://www.thebroth.com/markus">
<img src="http://www.thebroth.com/gal/prmarkus.jpg" alt="" /></a>


For forums and other places that allow BBcode (such as TheBroth forums and user blogs), you can use the following:

[url=http://www.thebroth.com/markus]
[img]http://www.thebroth.com/gal/prmarkus.jpg[/img][/url]

Of course, in the examples above, replace “markus” with your room name.

Image caching

Note, these preview images are live thumbnails that use caching methods to reduce the server load. You may find that the thumbnail when used outside the mosaic room shows tile positions that are about 30 seconds old.