Web Graphics

All About Finding and Using Images Online

Use Web graphics to add interest to your pages.

Images help to break up the text on a page, which may cause your visitors to stay longer, and read more than they otherwise would.

It's also been widely reported that images near Google ads and other on-page advertisements result in higher click-through rates.

Considerations

Along with the good that professional looking photos can do for your site, low quality images can diminish your credibility. And improperly optimized images can cause slow loading pages.

To avoid the common pitfalls with Web graphics, consider the following tips and articles...

Choose images which are...

• high quality
• relevant to your theme
• tasteful and non-offensive

Finding and Editing Images

Advice on sourcing out free Web images to use on your site. Learn how you can actually earn money by displaying top quality graphics from a range of categories.

Find inexpensive stock photos at the sites recommended here.

Learn to resize and optimize graphics with free or inexpensive photo editing software.

Protecting Images

While displaying images can add impact to your web pages, it can also put you at risk of theft. Following are a few options for protecting your images from those who have no qualms about ripping off copyrighted work...

• How to watermark photos

 

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