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November 23, 2005

Does this blog need images?

by Andrew

I’ve noticed that this blog seems a little bland with its lack of images. I recently started adding royalty free photos to one of my other blogs and, visually, it makes a big difference.

I was searching for Google Press photos to use for the last post. To me, none of them seemed even close to fitting the story.

Being a blog about digital web publishing, most photos would look out of place here. Perhaps thumbnail screenshots of sites will have to do.

3 Comments »

  1. Its in the adult industry, but Sam’s sugarbank.com beautifully ads pictures to every post. (no it’s not a TGP) If I had the time or patience I would like to have more pics on my blog like Sam does - it definately makes it look more professional.

    Comment by Quadszilla — November 23, 2005 @ 1:02 am

  2. I don’t think I needs pics, maybe a bit more color. Also, this comments box overlaps the right edge of the main border (in firefox).

    Comment by Damien — November 23, 2005 @ 6:25 pm

  3. I also noticed that on my blog: If you add pictures it looks friendlier ;) So I add pictures every 3 posts or so to present it a little bit different…
    I think small thumbnails of websites seems to be a good idea, make them 150px width that should be enough. Just a little eyecandy on the right.
    For taking images of websites I can recommend you a Firefox Extension called ScreenGrab: http://andy.5263.org/?page_id=5

    Comment by anty — November 24, 2005 @ 3:39 pm

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