Or, at the very least, leave a real e-mail address so I can reply to you privately, and not have to point out publicly what a retarded boob you are.

I know this person wanted 5,000 squares of a distinct image. I point out in this article:

Five thousand slices would be 50 columns x 100 rows; and about the smallest one of those squares could be and still be selectable by mouse is 10 pixels x 10 pixels. That means the image would have to be 500 pixels wide by 1,000 pixels tall, which is a really long image, and people might be discouraged to try to see it all.

I also note, under the subhead, “An Alternative Approach: Using A Photograph”:

The primary benefit of this approach is that it’s aesthetic. The primary drawback is that it loads much slower, because each image is distinct; as such, for very large numbers of squares, this isn’t a good approach.

Because you’re clearly a total fool, in addition to a lazy near-illiterate blowhard, let me edify you the same way I edified the person above: Neither a JPG nor a Flash animation that is cut into 5,000 small, distinct squares is going to load quickly.

Yes, the demos only use 25 squares each. Here’s shocking news, so sit down, because your feeble brain probably can’t handle this: The number of squares doesn’t change the basic mechanics of how you do what this guy wanted done. Whether the end solution uses one or 1 million squares, and whether the squares are two-tone or slices of a larger photograph, the algorithm for each square is exactly the same: if a square is sold, it shows a different image than if it isn’t sold, and if a square is sold, it needs to pop up a message on mouseover.

The number of squares only dictate whether what the questioner wants done is a good idea. If you read the entire article, I make it very clear that whether you use a two-color scheme or a photograph, 5,000 squares are way too many squares, and thus it’s a bad idea.

But bad idea or not, it raises several interesting techniques I can illustrate, which is why I wrote the entry.

And yes, I am fully aware of the Million Dollar Homepage. It loads about as fast as my solution would at the same size. Which is still to say, it takes too long to load.

Mike, do yourself a favor and shut up. You don’t know enough to form a cogent opinion on the matter, you haven’t read the entire entry and you don’t know the back story.

Don’t make me block your entire IP range from viewing this blog because you won’t stop sending half-witted, entirely uninformed nonsense comments here. Shut your pie hole, read from start to finish and learn.

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As the saying goes, “No good deed goes unpunished.”

Thank you so much for tackling this. Could you contact me i’d like to hire you to build this on our server for us.

Thanks again,

Jesse