Patrick Taylor Web Design is a small web design and development consultancy working from Bolton in the UK. I specialise in hand-crafted custom web solutions for individuals, small businesses, and other bodies to create an elegant, effective, and standards-compliant presence on the World Wide Web. The service is also characterised by attention to detail, helpfulness, quick response, and affordability.
Professional photgraphers and graphic designers will be aware that .jpg or .jpeg digital photographs that are to be edited several times should first be saved into a 'lossless' file format such as .tif (TIFF), .png, or .psd. This is because JPEG is a method of lossy compression for photographic images, using an algorithm to a standard specified by a committee called the Joint Photographic Experts Group.
This may seem academic, but anyone who enjoys messing around with .jpg images and ignores this fact risks degrading their quality bit by bit, until they end up with photos of significantly lower quality than the originals, which are perhaps lost forever.
Except for the casual hobbyist, running a modern website is not simply a matter of creating web pages then letting the Internet do the rest. A number of tools can be used to help a webmaster make sure the site is running properly and is performing its intended purpose. They are either free or inexpensive. Here are those I use myself:
According to Gyles Brandreth, the year of his birth was the luckiest to have been born in: 1948. "We are, indeed, the blessed people," says Mr Gyles, who describes himself as actor, broadcaster, writer, and after-dinner speaker. Eagle and Beano comics and no National Service are two of the reasons he cites. He's also been the European Monopoly champion and esteemed President of the Association of British Scrabble Players, the sort of thing one expects from an intelligent someone who, like me, was brought up before the age of computers.
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All the Companies badly hit and many said it was the bloodiest battle they ever remembered. I soon got used to Spandau bullets flying overhead. Decided to withdraw as our flanks were unsecure.
