Covers the delivery and display of photographs, graphics and other visual elements.
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What is a good program for optimizing images on a website?
I have some extensive website that I need to analyze the images and see if they can be optimized. Can any one recommend a good program for this?
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Fixed background images not displaying correctly on any web browser
http://i.stack.imgur.com/z8yEP.png <- screenshot for this question (not enough reputation)
I am using fixed position images as seen at
css-tricks.com/examples/BlurryBackgroundEffect/
to create a ...
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Does specifying explicit image dimensions help site performance?
I ran some audits on a new web application we are about to launch. Chromium is suggesting in network utilization that a few images on our site do not have height/width dimensions explicitly declared. ...
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Communicating image size, best practice
If you are developing a html document strictly using current best practice of keeping styling out of the markup how do you best communicate image sizing?
Past best practice wants image height and ...
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When should i consider having text as an image in my website heading
i see many sites that have their heading as an image. what is the benefit of this? when is a best practice to use text as images as opposed to just having text in my html. is this just for ...
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How do I make a sprite full of different images (hover, non-hover, etc)?
I understand there are tools on the net to make a sprite, but I'd like to learn how to create icons for the different states of the icon. Is there an easy way to make all these different variations ...
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Best Way to Backup and Restore Linux System in VPS? [closed]
I might be opting to using the daily versions of some VPS services. I want to be able to continue from when I started after shutting down and removing the server.
What is the best way to backup and ...
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4answers
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Where can I find graphic artists who can draw clean Windows 7/Mac style icons?
Not sure if this should be a community wiki, but I'd like to find some graphic artists who can create beautiful Windows 7 icons (for use on the web)... somewhat similar in style to the image below.
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How can I encourage the browser to download images from CSS file faster?
I use CSS to place a lot of my images (as backgrounds for divs) and I often find that they load very slowly this way. They seem to be the last thing to load. Even small little icon images take a ...
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Thumbnails for videos in multiple formats?
I have some intranet training videos made over the years in a bunch of formats (AVI, WMV, MOV, RealPlayer) and would like to provide something like a preview function - maybe a thumbnail animated GIF ...
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Serving Images out of SQL server vs. File system vs. S3 etc
My application (classic asp yay!) has about 2.1 million images @ 25GB and that only represents 90 days of data and I'd like to go 365 at a minimum. I need to get these under control and am ...
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What are common Media Library tools used for Kentico/Generic PHP sites?
Through a course of mergers and acquisitions the particular group of companies who I work for have built up a vast array of websites running either Kentico (or ASP websites that will be using Kentico) ...
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What can I do to reduce the file size of my images?
Working with some wordpress themes I've been modifying some of the image files and noticed that my edited versions are sometimes 3-4x larger than the original (saved using the same format). I don't ...
