Compressed background jpg

Author: Oasiris

TODO.md

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       - `"thumb": "17-0"`, or
       - `"img": "17-0"`?
 - Assign ID's for families.
-
-- Write a short script that will minify all of the png images in a folder. Apply that script to the `thumbs` folder (nested somewhere within `public`).
-  - These thumbs are quite large -- they take up 3-5kb each, and there are 371 of them, for 1000-1600kb. I can't remember if I already attempted to minify them, but another go would not hurt.

docs/NOTES.md

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+# Notes
+
+### Image Compression
+
+- I compressed the images loaded in `./public/img/` with the Mac OSX app "ImageOptim". It's _great_.
+  - I got an average of 35% lossless compression on my PNG thumbs, and
+  - About 8% lossless compression on my already-compressed JPG background image.
+    - The most impressive thing about said background image: I tested out lossy compression at 85% quality for this thing. The image was compressed by a further 33%. But more importantly, _the lossily compressed image looks better than the non-lossily compressed image._