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Welcome to the Bandwidth Conservation Society
With the astronomical growth of the web we've
noticed a lot of bytes being pumped down the backbone that don't necessarily need
to be sent. Lots of these extra bytes are in the form of images. The goal of
this first installment of the Bandwidth Conservation Society is to show you how
to make your images smaller. Not in area, but in bytecount.
Revealing the secret to pretty pictures.
The fact that
most of the images on the web could be a fraction of their current size (yet
still retain the image integrity) is the focus of this document. The tutorial
is geared for the web developer who has a basic
understanding of Adobe Photoshop or similar bitmap basher.
Why Optimize your bitmaps?
The bottom line is the surfing syndrome. As the dialup population grows, more
folks want the images faster. Plus... by reducing the byte size of
images a few things occur:
What's in this document:
Who are we and how to join
The Bandwidth Conservation Society is a loosely knit
group of web developers who disagree about nearly everything... Except keeping
gifs as tiny as possible. Even then, there are differring strategies. If you
wish to join, give us your name, email, and URL. Promise to optimize your
images and give users an indication that you have their fastest
download interest at heart, point to our minimalistic Bandwidth Conservation Society logo. (the url is http://www.infohiway.com/way/faster/bcs.gif)
(That way, once loaded it'll come from the
- The developer uses less hard disk real estate
- The developer uses less cpu overhead to deliver the image
- The user gets the image quicker! This is the important one
- Fewer bytes across the net means more room as the popularity of the net
- Courtesy. As more folks are sharing web-server resources, your
electronic neighbors will appreciate your intelligence and web-savvy delivery
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