Depositphotos is a royalty-free stock image website that has over 100 million images, vectors, and videos, in its archives. These digital products can be used to create logos, to improve the look of blog posts, to create professional flyers and brochures, and more. If you use the internet regularly, you …
The other day I shared with you 10 Ways to Lazy Load Images and Videos in WordPress. Using lazy load can drastically improve page loading times and reduce bandwidth. Another key aspect of reducing the weight of images and improving website performance is to optimise your images. I have always …
Website page loading times are greatly affected by the weight of images on a page since each image on a page has to be downloaded from your website server to the visitor’s computer. The more images there are on a page, the higher your total page size will be; which …
Few people will argue that the star of WordCamp Europe 2016 was PixelRockstar. More specifically, the stars of the event were Wapuu and the PixelRockstar team who walked around for a couple of days taking polaroid pictures of everyone. It was a fantastic marketing ploy that caught the attention of …
Optimus Image Optimizer is a WordPress plugin that greatly reduces your image files. It prides itself in reducing image sizes without losing image quality. Smaller image files will help your website pages load quicker. It also means you will be using up less storage in your hosting account. In this …
You have a few options when it comes to using images in your blog posts, eBooks, marketing materials and everything else you use to sell. Grab screenshots, take your own photos or go to one of the many stock image websites to see if you can grab an image for …
What process do you follow when creating a brand new page for your website? Is it something along the lines of “add new page…type some stuff…insert a couple of images…publish”? Don’t worry. I feel your pain. The standard WordPress page editor leaves a lot to be desired. It lacks functionality, …
I spoke yesterday about the news that Getty Images are allowing bloggers to embed their high quality photos on their websites. Thomas Hoefter from CMS Commander posted a comment noting that the embed option is only available to non-commercial websites, which renders the feature pretty useless to most bloggers. Coincidentally, …
Finding the right images for your blog posts can be a real pain. To complicate matters even more, bloggers need to ensure that they only use free and creative common images. This greatly restricts the quality and quantity of images they can use, however using stock images without permission is …
Long term readers of this blog will be aware of my view on writing guest posts for free. Before you all start screaming, yes… I am aware of the benefits of guest blogging. Please re-read my post from last year to get a better understanding of how I feel about …