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One of the main challenges was to reduce the overall size of the website. Particularly to try and reduce the size of each page to something less than 1MB . Since a large part of both the appeal and the weight of the magazine comes from the fact it is richly illustrated, this presented us with a particular challenge.
Image from the blog showing 19th century telephone switchboard operators, 159.5KB
Image from the blog showing 20th century telephone switchboard operators([original source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_System_switchboard.jpg)), 159.5KB
In order to reduce the size of the images, without diminishing their role in the design and the blog itself, we reverted to a technique called dithering:
