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Friday, August 31st, 2007
An interesting conversation this week sparked me to justify to one of my students why file sizes still matter now that ‘most people’ have broadband access or at least the opportunity to get it. After all, he was developing a portfolio site for his graphic design and illustration and not an information page on a news portal. The argument in his head revolved squarely on the idea that large images with high file sizes are an integral part of what he does – optimising for the Web somehow steals from that ideal. Which I strongly disagree with by the way. Unfortunately the question is actually quite common so I thought the answer might belong on this weblog.
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