Throughout this book, you’ve gotten to know the important principles of performance and responsive web design. Let’s put all of this know-how together in a strategy for approaching image production.
Image Production Strategy
As a conscientious web designer concerned with providing the best experience across a wide range of devices, you should have these priorities in mind when handling images for a site:
Keeping the file sizes of images as small as possible
Minimizing the number of HTTP requests to the server
Not downloading more image data than is needed for devices with smaller screens
(Optional) Delivering high-quality images to high-density displays
It may be helpful to approach these image requirements systematically, ruling out classes of images and unnecessary tasks. Figure 27-1 diagrams a series of questions you can use to cull your image production options. I’ll be using this flowchart as the jumping-off point for discussions on optimization, responsive image production, efficient production techniques, and automation.
Figure 27-1. This flowchart is intended to help narrow down the options for image asset production. It is the ...
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