[thelist] html load time

Chris Garrett chris at chrisg.com
Mon Oct 1 10:27:52 CDT 2001


Depends who is doing the images and uploading them, if you have contributers
out in the field who are not up on this kind of thing it might be the best
solution (perhaps as part of a web-based CMS)

I agree an automated solution is unlikely to be better than a trained
designer most of the time

Chris

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Dexter" <sgd at ti3.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:25 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] html load time


> I'd argue that that's not the best place to be performing the
> optimization. Especially since by doing so you're placing unneeded load
> on the server when it could be serving pages, and you're taking up space
> on your server that you won't be using. As far as where in the process
> optimizing images goes, I'd put it somewhere before you ftp them to the
> server. Programs like Fireworks and ImageReady and Debabelizer have
> batch modes that you can fire up.
>
> As to which app I'd choose to schedule, I'd pick Debabelizer, since
> that's all it does in life =)
>
> sgd
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeana Clark [mailto:jmclark at multiservice.com]
> >
> > My boss (who's a marketing dude and all about automating as
> > much work as we
> > can) is wondering if there's a server-side program (running
> > on apache or
> > NSCA) that can automatically optimize graphics to a certain 'size'
> > compression etc that we can set and sort of set it as a cron job.
>
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