Some pretty interesting facts about the internet:...
11:34 AM
Unknown
Friday, March 5, 2010
I was looking into this a while back and it just popped back up in my mind again. To reduce bandwidth and page load times some websites will place a majority of their images in a single image and use it as if it were a tile sheet.
Example: http://www.google.com/images/nav_logo8.png
Using some a certain combination of CSS properties you can crop out unneeded parts of the image.
Example:.next-button...
8:51 AM
dfox
Thursday, March 4, 2010
As a web developer, I regularly open a website to see the images on the page slowly load line by line. I immediately know what has happened and think about the day that I will write a blog post about how to resize images for the web. Well, today is the day that I write the post.The Problem: Large ImagesUploading images from a digital camera will put unnecessarily large images on your site. Today's...