1/22/18 – Mosaic Page Update

This was originally published on January 22, 2018. I’m importing it from my old site.

Today I completed the initial update of the mosaic section of my site.  If you haven’t done so, you should check it out.  It’s pretty epic.  I am still at a loss to understand how I accumulated 17 mosaics.  I never thought I’d build 2 or 3, but 17?  Holy crap, Batman!  I also noticed that I have the bricks for a lot of them and haven’t built them.  How lazy is that?

But I learned a couple things while making these pages.  First, it’s a lot easier to build website stuff like that while going through the process of building each model.  Putting together 17 pages all at once was a marathon.  But it’s done and will be easy to add to in the future.  Second, watch your file size and type.  If you save an image as a bitmap, it could be upwards of 2-3 MB.  But save it as a jpeg or png, it’ll be like 20kB for the same size and quality of image (at least for our purposes here).  Saves a lot of loading time and such.  Three, don’t be a lazy ass and not build your mocs.  That’s not fun.  I hated having to say that as I built each page.  “We’ll see when I finally get them built” is a lame way to end each page.

Anyway, the more I build on this site, the more I enjoy it.  I have a lot of cool and original hobbies.  I hope that others can enjoy them as much as I do.  Live Long and Prosper.

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