If you or your client is working with web images and wondering about web image DPI guidelines, this article’s for you. It explains why DPI doesn’t matter for web images, and why pixel count does.

Using Creative Commons-licensed images lets you take advantage of the incredible diversity of stuff on the internet, without violating anyone’s intellectual property. It’s where we get most of our article featured images from, for example.

I really love being able to set custom image sizes in WordPress. The power and flexibility this system opens up for building beautiful, easy-to-administer, performant websites is hard to overstate.

This week’s post is something new. It’s new in two ways. First, rather than being a mostly text post, I made this first as a screencast. If that’s a speed and format you like, watch away. (You’ll probably need to watch at 720p or better resolution, ideally full screen. First time recording on the new computer made me forgetful about those issues.)