This is nothing personal at all, but dont you ahve better things to do?!?!? Lol
Chris
Nope, nothing better to do.
Just trying to do something good for ComputerHope.com. Actually, web graphics is an interest of mine. Seven years or so ago, I became interested in web design. Keep in mind a greater percentage of Internet users then did not have DSL/cable; they used a dial-up connection. I obtained some references on web design, including web graphics. One of the guiding principles behind developing web pages was to strive to keep the web page file at 50K or smaller. Why? Because site visitors will not hang around and wait for the page to load in their browser if it takes too long. Heavy use of graphics can quickly make a web page file larger than 50K. An image like GX1_MAN's avatar, alone, would take the page close to 50K, and wouldn't leave room for much else except some text in order to stay close to the 50K rule-of-thumb.
With a greater percentage of Internet users now accessing the Internet via high speed DSL or cable, I believe many web developers have become lackadaisical about optimizing image file size. I think's unfortunate. There are still a significant percentage of Internet users who use dial-up. And, if you read my comments in
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1152193853, you can see how wasted bandwidth can impact the cost of hosting a website.
By the way, that image in your signature is another gross case of bloat. Nice looking image, but the file size could be 1/4 what it is, and look the same. Let me know if interested. I'll tell you how.
