Images and the Web Designer's Tool Kit

To the untrained, it may seem one of the major aspects of a Web Technologist's work is put in with the coding languages of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. However, one area that many tend to overlook is the need to edit Images for Content.

Now it should actually be pointed out that by "Edited for Content" a Web Designer does not actually mean editing in much the same way that you would see a Movie edited for a Television Broadcast, although there are times when every once in a while a potentially offending detail needs to be be removed from an image.  A Web Designer actually spends more time editing in order to fit a scaled image into a Web Site while at the same time reducing the image's DPI (Dots Per Inch, or the number of pixels of colour found in an area of an image).  Reducing an images DPI is actually done to allow the image to load faster as the Web Browser downloads the content to the User's screen.

These edits can be handled through many different pieces of software depending on if your Web Designer works on an Apple Mac or Microsoft Windows PC, and can range from the top of the line industry standard Adobe Photoshop to lesser priced (and even in some cases free_ programs like G.I.M.P (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) and Paint.NET.

You may ask just why such edits are important, and the fact is, edits, like reducing the DPI of an image, speed up the time it takes for the User to receive their requested information on your Company's Website, a detail that in this modern age could result in either a Sale or a Lost Customer in the matter of 3 seconds time.