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Photo Galleries

If you want to display a range of photographs on your website it is a good idea to use a photo gallery page such as this test one which I developed for a local photographer. You should also use a watermark on your photographs to prevent others from copying them.

Click here to view sample photo gallery

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Using images on your website

Images are very important to the look and feel of a website. They help to break up the text and make the pages look more interesting. They can also convey their own message, e.g. a company slogan.

I enjoy choosing pictures for a website. Mind you, when I was working on the website for a lady supplying chocolate fountains the pictures were so good I just couldn't stop thinking about food.

There are millions of pictures "out there" on the internet, but make sure you have permission to use them before you include them in your site, otherwise you are infringing copyright laws. Some sites offer clipart and photographs which are free to use, others only require a link back to their site crediting them with the photograph. There are many professional sites too, e.g. Fotolia, where you can buy permission to use a photograph. The prices can start from just 50p.

Of course, with digital cameras it is now very easy to take your own photographs to use on your website. Think about the composition of your picture and keep the background plain.

The software I use allows me to work with the photographs so I can crop them, recolour them, add special effects etc but most importantly I need to resize and optimize the images so they are suitable for the internet. Large, detailed images can be so slow to load on a web page that you can lose your customer before the page is even loaded, they simply get fed up of waiting and click to go to another site.

If you have images which you would like to use on your website that is great, if not then I can help you choose some - it's one of the fun elements of designing a website.

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Happy Birthday to me!

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