Friday, July 25, 2008

Makeuseof.com added zlert to their directory a few days ago. It's a site for "Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips". Has some interesting content.

One minor point about their logo, is that they shouldn't really be using a JPEG for an image that is all text. As you can see on the site, the logo suffers from some nasty compression artifacts. For example, you see some fuzzy ghosting around the letters, for example the "f" in "of".

When an image is mainly text, PNG or GIF files do a nice job of reducing size, but preserving the crispness of the letters. JPEG is really better for photographs. See the Wikipedia article on the JPEG format for details.

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