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Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 2:30 pm
by sitenoise
When I'm browsing in Cover View and I notice that a cover is small or lo-res and I want to get something better, I just click one of these links I have put into my Info View Template (based on Matt's wonderful design). Oh, and thanks to Conor I don't try and put them into custom fields! :D

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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=[key:title]%20site:www.impawards.com">Imp Awards</a><br>
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt[key:imdb]/posters">IMDb Poster</a><br>
<a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&client=googlet&q=[key:title]">Google Images</a><br>
I have found IMPawards to have the nicest, highest res (if available) posters with an unobtrusive, quick and clean web site. No popups or silly crud.

I find both the Movie Poster database (movieposterdb.com) and Trailer Fan (trailerfan.com) to be slow and ugly without any payoff in the end.

How do you go about getting good cover art?

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:42 am
by Wheelie4
How can I add those links? :?

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 12:48 pm
by sitenoise
Wheelie4 wrote:How can I add those links? :?
Just copy the code and paste it into your Info View Template.

See:
http://www.bruji.com/howto/infoView.html and others at http://bruji.com/support.php

you just have to decide where.

Post again if you haven't Info View Tweaked before and need additional help. Let me know what Info View Style you're using.

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:13 pm
by Wheelie4
Thx ual. Never done info view tweaking before. I'm using TigerColumn. I was able to do it in NeoOffice and save it but poorly I might add. :) But textedit wouldn't allow me to save without changing to rtfd format even thought the info in the link you provided said any text editor. :)

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:40 pm
by sitenoise
Wheelie4 wrote:... textedit wouldn't allow me to save without changing to rtfd format
Yeah, I don't get TextEdit, never been able to figure out that demand or why it opens html docs WYSIWYGaly.

I use Tex-Edit Plus http://www.tex-edit.com/ for text issues, lots of nice tools for cleaning up text. (though i use Dreamweaver for html :)

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 2:25 pm
by TheMatador
oh no ,are you kidding ? neooffice as text editor for HTML pages .... no way.
I really would advise you to use another one? neooffice is not suited to use it that way.
I use smultron , a very nice editor, with lots of great features.... oh yeah and its free:)
http://smultron.sourceforge.net/

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:04 pm
by Wheelie4
Hehe, I don't do any web creation/design so never bothered with an html editor. Textedit didn't work so I tried NeoOffice in html view. :) I figured textedit would do like notepad did on windows but guess not for this edit job. I'll give those a try, thanks.

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:14 pm
by Wheelie4
Got it done using Smultron. Took a few tries to figure out were to put it but got it. Thanks all. :)

Edit: I just tried in NeoOffice again putting them on the same line I did in Smultron and it works the same. I was putting them in the wrong place before in NeoOffice just like I did wrong in Smultron the first couple time. ;)

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 3:44 pm
by TheMatador
Smultron has syntax coloring. so its easier to work. it has also an preview mode where you can see whats has changed.
I used neooffice only for writing big documents. But even there I prefer Pages or Latex.

Re: Smultron

Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:06 pm
by sitenoise
I'm going to try Smultron. Looks nice.

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:55 pm
by k6ng6r00
not following this. never done html or info view tweaking. i get how to open it and edit the files but i dont know which file im supposed to edit or where in the file to put in the code

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:10 pm
by sitenoise
k6ng6r00 wrote:not following this. never done html or info view tweaking. i get how to open it and edit the files but i dont know which file im supposed to edit or where in the file to put in the code
Sorry I missed your post ... are you still here?

Re: Getting cover art ... LINKS

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:11 pm
by verdejt
I still use DVD Profiler and as such it uses hires cover art. I just copy the images from there and then drag them into DVDE Pedia.