Image Delivery for Gallery Sites

Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Gallery sites live and die on image quality. Every page is image-heavy by design. The hero images, card thumbnails, collection grids, and featured study visuals are the content, not decoration around the content. That makes image delivery the single highest-impact performance consideration for any visual gallery. This guide covers the practical decisions behind image format selection, compression tuning, responsive sizing, lazy loading, and delivery optimization, drawn from running a gallery site where every page has at least one large visual and most have several. We address format trade-offs, JPG quality tuning, dimension strategies, layout shift prevention, and how to think about image performance holistically rather than obsessing over individual file sizes.

SVG Workflows for Interface Illustration

Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

SVG sits at the heart of most serious browser-native illustration work. It scales without loss, it lives in the DOM, it responds to CSS, and it can be animated frame-by-frame or with smooth transitions. But the workflow between creating SVG in a design tool and shipping it in a production interface is full of friction that rarely gets discussed in beginner tutorials. This guide covers the full pipeline from tool export to browser delivery, with practical techniques drawn from years of illustration work for web interfaces. We address export cleanup, path optimization, accessibility labeling, CSS integration, and the structural decisions that determine whether your SVG is maintainable or becomes a liability.

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Image Delivery for Gallery Sites

SVG Workflows for Interface Illustration