July 27, 2003

Button

I notice a lot of bloggers have buttons and banners, and I'm wondering if I should make one. Maybe a green fairy holding a cookie?

Posted by Ithildin at July 27, 2003 12:57 AM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE

I tend to fall in the "avoid such things" school of thought, figuring more graphics, even little ones, means slower loading and more bandwidth usage. If someone puts a graphical button to link all their blog links, that adds load time. On the other hand, a basic JPEG button of the typical size really is small. Load times are usually more affected by large header or background graphics, or lots of embedded pictures in posts.

Posted by: Jay Solo at July 27, 2003 2:43 AM

I wasn't going to use buttons here, I meant making one for people who do use them and link to this blog. Uh, or something like that!

Posted by: Ith at July 27, 2003 12:05 PM

I think it would be cute :)

Posted by: Annmarie at July 27, 2003 2:12 PM

That's what I meant too. Some sites have a ton of buttons linking to other sites.

OTOH it does sound cute, as Annemarie said.

Posted by: Jay Solo at July 27, 2003 2:54 PM

Jay, got it! :)

Well, maybe one day I'll see about making one. I ponder odd things as it gets late, and that was one of them!

Posted by: Ith at July 27, 2003 3:41 PM