I also find it odd that the masthead for the blog is a 737KB PNG...I don't know why you wouldn't use a JPG - at a high quality level it's virtually indistinguishable and 1/4 of the size.

It's a little pedantic, but if you're going to talk about how sites should be lightweight and then use a sizeable PNG image you're sort of opening yourself up for criticism.

They could at least run the PNG through a png compressor and shave 91kb off the size (tested on pngout) and without any loss in quality. Would save a lot of bytes over time...

The SmushIt image compressor in Yahoo's YSlow quickly became one of my favorite pocket-sized web dev tools.

She's tweeted saying that was a mistake and she'll fix it.

A good lesson though to remember before calling someone out publicly. We all make mistakes, and the author is not exempt from this rule.

Yeah, but she's a blogger and Camper is a company worth millions of dollars.

I don't expect good design from bloggers. If they say smart things, I'll read. I expect good design from people who theoretically want my money, because it's their job not to irritate me when I'm trying to pay them.

I've avoided buying products from companies who make terrible design decisions. Not even to punish them, just to avoid having to deal with the pre-product bullshit.