Stock photos are basically an Internet scam. You can tell this because it is so difficult to find articles on how much a scam they are, and there are so many things wrong once a little analysis is done. The basic idea is not a bad one, save money and time on creating images for [...]
Category Archives: Images
PDF Markdown + Flickr, YouTube Shortcodes
The advantages to using Markdown and shortcodes instead of a rich text editor cannot be underestimated. Add to that the practice of hosting media outside of a website, e.g., Flickr for images and YouTube for video. Together these create a fantastic best practice for content management. We use WordPress and associated plugins but it is [...]
Screen Resolutions, Form Factors, 2011
We’ve recently taken a look at two sets of data for website traffic with a combined 230,000 visits, 48,000 of that was from 12-24 months ago. In sum, the message is that a diversity of browsers and screen resolutions is the current and future reality. As well, we can thankfully forget about supporting IE6. Tweet [...]
Linking Guidelines – Links to Images, Content
Links to Images Studies show that people don’t usually expect to find a photo or image at the end of a text link that does not refer to the link as having an image. There are a few ways (options) to handle this. Have a link that says: “(photo)” or “(image)” after a given description [...]