Intereactive Web Design - Sugar Land, TX

There’s a lot that goes into making a successful company and the #1 element is having a great work environment. We’re going to start a series on things we do to keep ourselves entertained day in and day out. Some of it gets pretty creative because we don’t have a dedicated office space… so the easy things like unplugging cables or putting water on a chair don’t work. Here’s the first look at a conversation Phil and I had about image resizing.

Let me set this up. We had a client that wanted to add an online signup for an event and we were just using a big jpg of a flyer they created as part of the page. I got into the design and this is what unfolded via IM…

Ryan: hey
I noticed that flyer jpg is like 215kb
can we get that to around 20kb
Phil: which one… the small graphic or large graphic?
Ryan: that big one
Phil: you want the popup image to be 20k?
Ryan: please. it takes a while to load
Phil: to do that we’ll have to size it down actually smaller than the image that’s on the actual page. or it will be compressed all to hell
Phil: wait
Ryan: you’d never be able to go to this church
Phil: you said the 215kb one but then you said “yes” to the large one
the one that’s on the page is 224k
the really large one that opens is over 500k
which one are you talking about?
Ryan: well both I guess
half a meg is a lot
you could get that thing down to like 50k right?
Phil: the big one?
Ryan: what are they teaching you?
Phil: that you’re freakin nuts
Ryan: yeah the big one
i’m really glad I don’t have a webcam
Phil: so get this
Ryan: you’d see me getting off the floor right now
Phil: if I compress it to 5% quality (this is the smaller one on the page) I can get it down to 46k
Ryan: lol
Phil: and it looks like ass
seriously bro, there’s no way
it’s just a big ass image
i can get it smaller than it is currently, but there’s no way to get it to 20
Ryan: aren’t you on a mac
Phil: do you want me to do this or not?
Ryan: I thought it was magic or something
I’m utterly disapointed.
Phil: talk to Adobe then
Ryan: I will
Phil: okay i can get it to around 100
but it’s pixelated in some areas
Ryan: dude. stop.
lol
completely messing with you
Phil: WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT????
lol
Ryan: I think I just achieved it
Phil: I ain’t got time to be beebopping in with this crap
Ryan: haha
I just got me a new status for my IM
are you ever going to talk to me again?

This kind of stuff happens all the time and is the key ingredient to our happiness with what we are doing. We’ll be giving out a lot more goofy things that happen as time goes on.