Need For Optimizing Images For Custom Web Designs

By Author: Vijay Sharma
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Very often it can be seen that a website that has very modest content and a few images, takes eternally long time to download. Images that have been included to the website and then re-sized in the website design course instead of using an image editing software. In such a case what essentially happens is that it is telling the browser to re-size the image on the fly. This generates a lot of extra job for the browser and the whole site takes unnecessary extra time to download.

Reasons that prompt the need for optimizing images in web designs-

•First and foremost is that it creates an improved user experience; no one wants to linger on large images to load. Particularly in the age of lightening fast internet speed. In the earlier days when there was dial up it was just how things were, long waits for websites to load. But in the present time users are accustomed to expect a fast load time. And if you have a massive file that hasn't been optimized for the web your visitors are for certain going to rebound off your website and on another website of the same niche.

•Keep in mind the importance of high ...
... search engine rankings which gives better visibility online. Google offers brownie points to sites that have high-speed load times. This means they will aid the website over another in the search listings if you are quicker than your competitor.

•This is definitely a time consuming since you have to do it manually for every image, but once done it is the website which will have fast download time without the hampering the picture quality.

Tips For Optimizing Images

•Resizing the image is comparatively easy task. Nearly all image editing software allow you to re-size the picture and simultaneously setting the pixels to 72ppi, coupled with width and height dimensions. Though this reduces the file size but it is not the best or most successful way to optimize the images for uploading in a website.

•Photoshop has a helpful element named ‘Save For Web’. It has several controls and lets you evaluate the original image to the optimized edition. It also lets you exchange between file formats and gives you the yield size for your optimized picture.

•Other software’s like Fireworks, Paintshop Pro, lets you select the "quality" of the JPEG image as you try to save an image file. Usually a setting of 8 to 10 or even "medium" to "high" quality is comparatively satisfactory, as it will preserve the quality of the image while saving it in a lesser file size.

•If you desire, you can opt to save the images in PNG format, this will give the most excellent quality at the least file size.

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