Three more reasons I’m not a photographer.

Over the last couple of weeks I began to reach for the top shelf. I’ve been spending the costly price on the Web and I’ve been building with high priced images. Ode to the PNG image format. What is it, it’s a damn expensive image, thats what it is. (a bitmap image format that employs lossless data compression) Which means it holds its value when you open it change it and re-save it, unlike a jpg.

Perhaps this is gibberish, but Im pretty sure most everyone out there knows what happens when you use a cheap jpg image. They look like crap and you wish you wouldn’t have used it after you’re done posting it.

Anyway, the point is, A good png image with a transparent background can be dropped on top of any color or image and will work great. (that is if you built your image right) Is it worth the price? Sometimes when you really need it, yes. I could spend 5kb on a gif or i could spend 40kb on a png. I figure as long as your layout page load is under 500kb it’ll be ok.

This is the age of high speed internet. If you dont have it than you’re not surfing, you’re swimming.