I personally love sites that load fast. That’s why I try to optimize my own sites so that the user get a quick page load response from the server. I don’t like to let the user wait to load a simple HTML page. That’s why I try to squeeze the images I use for the site so that the page will load faster. I usually compress my CSS and JavaScript to also get better performance. I want to share this tip on how to optimize your images before publishing them on the web.

I usually use Adobe Photoshop to optimize my web images by using the Save For Web dialog to do so. This lets you get the best visual result for a certain file size.
Smushit.com is a service that uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of images. They do it without changing the look or the visual quality of your image.

You can either upload one image or point your site url. They will check the images for you by giving you a report of how many bytes you can save by optimizing your images. You can then download those changed images as a single zip for download which will be generated for you. Smush it is also a FireFox Extenion which you can fire up quickly to “Smush” your site.

History of the Internet is a very quick animated documentary explaining the progress of the technology we use today and how it basically works.

I really liked it, you should check out the video and his free icon library PICOL which stands for Pictorial Communication Language and is a project to find a standard and reduced sign system for electronic communication. PICOL is free to use and open to alter.