Saturday, 9 February 2008

Free Software - Mostly Rubbish, Some Gems

Giveaway of the Day

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Tuesday, 11 December 2007

What's The Best Image Optimiser?

One of the problems with adding content to your website is finding the best method for optimising images, mainly digital photographs. Some methods of shrinking the physical size of these photographs still leave the file size much larger than needed.

My rule of thumb is that most images should be in the region of 5KB to 7KB for small, say 150 pixel images rising to 15KB to 25KB for 400 pixel images.

What's your favourite image manipulation software?

My current favourite is VSO Image Resizer because it's freeware, it's easy to use and handles a number of different file formats.

I also like 'Easy Thumbnails' for .jpgs and Picture Resizer

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Monday, 26 November 2007

Fast, Green, UK Based Web Hosting for Lib Dems

We at Lib-Dems.Net aim to provide the best available websites for Liberal Democrat constituencies and individuals at a fair price. Our server is fast, based in the United Kingdom and Carbon-Offset via tree planting, currently in the South Yorkshire forest.
This blog was created to help us provide an even better service. We'll post items of interest to our growing list of users and welcome feedback and positive suggestions about improvements to our services.