Adding Pizazz to Your Blog Posts

Dale Hogan    Design and Development     Blog Design, Blogging, Blogging Help, Fotolia, Images, iStockpoto, online, Plugins, Stock Photography, web, WordPress

Making your blog posts snazzy can be a chore when you’re an active blogger.  With all of life’s demands, it’s hard enough to just find the time to string together a few coherent sentences and get them published to your blog with any consistency.  What’s needed is a ‘have your cake and eat it too’ solution for adding great, legally licensed images to your posts.  Adding the right images to a post can really make it pop!  Well placed thematic photos and illustrations can aid in garnering the type of attention and traffic you want. read more…

Stock Photo Rights

David Gilder    Cool Links     Business, design, Images, Photography, Photos, Stock

Here is a quick little visual guide to why it is a good idea to license images for commercial purposes through stock agencies: http://www.stockphotorights.com/

Their main point is that the stock agencies offer legal guarantees that protect you if you accidentally overlook a model, trademarked, or copyrighted element in the image. The site is geared toward helping people working in the creative field better understand the issues surrounding using content they did not create themselves.