Selecting Images for Your New Website

Be careful trying to find free images. We DO NOT advise using any images you have found on the internet through searches. Many images will be copyrighted and you can land in all sorts of trouble.
There are a number of free stock sites where you can find images, however the choice is usually limited with these kind of sites. Generally, photographers like you to pay for their artwork and creative licence which is only fair – it is their livelihood after all!

Responsive design is the development approach we use to build your website enabling it to fluidly adjust within the parameters of any device – involving a minimum of scrolling or zooming. In other words, creating great-looking sites which are dynamic and flexible enough to be visually responsive to any screen, from mobile widths right up to desktop format.
To make that possible, we need a flexible approach to images. This means that background images without text on them work much better that those with words as the size of your screen will depend of how much of the image will be visible. Also, some image styles will work better than others in various places on the site.
Don’t worry – your images will be cropped by us in a responsive way to match the theme and we will provide feedback and support on this subject throughout the project.

Make sure you’re always using something relevant to what you’re writing or selling. Unrelated photos just for the sake of having photos will confuse and annoy your visitors. And worse, they don’t build trust with your customers.
Focus on bright, in-focus images that relate directly to your headlines, or at least to your first paragraph. You want people to look at the photo, look at the headline or opening paragraph, look back at the photo, and say “Ah yes, that makes sense.”
Photos are also an immediate indication that you’ve updated your site. When people come back and see a big new photo, it signals that you’re active and your site is somewhere they can expect to find fresh new content. This will help you stand out in a sea of competitors with bland, unchanging pages.
If you are not using stock images and have your own images to upload make sure they are NOT small, pixelated, low-quality images for purely aesthetic reasons. They will make your site look cheap and possibly spammy.
The Internet is a visual place. And it’s meant to be consumed with your eyes. Websites with nothing except tons of text will never be as immersive and engaging as sites that use images to help convey their message.