PNG Graphics...

[ChrisLM2001]

Originally Posted by KW802

I am fully aware of the goals of the vbulletin-css.com team.

A screen shot of just 1 minute ago, of the hardcoding in even in vBulletin.org's forums (and when the CSS doesn't load).

Both sites are suffering some DNS glitches now.

Chris

[Gio~Logist]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

So how come more designers do not export their graphics in PNG format? It has a superior transparency implementation and supports 24 bit color which allows for great high-color graphics and yet, it is often the same size or smaller than boring old GIF format.

Give us administrators a choice and create transparent PNGs as well as GIFs please.

PNG is great for quality and transparency. To be honest, i only use GIFs because of habbit. However, PNGs are perfect for logos and such. Also, you have to be careful and make sure that PNG is well supported by ALL browsers.

[ChrisLM2001]

Originally Posted by gio~logist

PNG is great for quality and transparency. To be honest, i only use GIFs because of habbit. However, PNGs are perfect for logos and such. Also, you have to be careful and make sure that PNG is well supported by ALL browsers.

If a banner logo has gradients, PNG is the best format to use as the file sizes are incredibly smaller.

Have a gradient for the tcat and thead, and it can shrink from over 1KB down to 200bytes, for example. On banner logos, what can go for 25KB in GIF format, can be shrunk to 10KB (with text!).

It's one of the reasons, if you're a savvy admin, you'd at least switch over to PNG for the little background images.

Chris

[Gio~Logist]

For those who are not familiar with PNGs, just look at my sig lol.