Images are important. Whatever system of measurement we use online, be it Google Analytics or Facebook’s “Insights” we’ll notice that content with compelling images – or a thumbnail rather than just a link – will get more “clicks” and “opens” and, generally, engagement. Put simply, pictures work, for most people. The reasons why are less [...]
Read More →Web Content Tip: When Pictures Won’t (or Don’t) Exist… Use Icons!
on February 7, 2013in Blogtags: Facebook, facebook insights, Google, google Analytics, icons, Images, insights, pictures, thumbnail, Twitter, Web Design, web designer, webmasterwith No Comments
Facebook Page Cover Image Size & Dimensions
on October 25, 2012in Blogtags: Cover Image, Dimensions, Facebook, Facebook Pages, Images, Pixels, Sizeswith No Comments
Because we’re regularly changing Facebook pages for ourselves and our clients, we regularly need to check the dimensions of various buttons and images to be used within Facebook. While the image sizes to be used for Facebook Apps are readily available in the locations they should be uploaded in the Facebook developer space, the same [...]
Read More →How to Exclude Photos from a WordPress Gallery
on August 31, 2012in Blogtags: Galleries, Image Galleries, Images, WordPress, WordPress Tutorials, WP Tutorialswith No Comments
We often use WordPress’s in-built “Gallery” function to display all of the photographs we’ve added to a WordPress post or page. This is done by adding the Gallery shortcode, into a WordPress post or page (after, of course, having added some pictures to that post!): [gallery] Sometimes, though, you don’t want to include all your [...]
Read More →Sliding Images on Website
on June 9, 2012in Blogtags: Images, Rotating, Slider, Sliding Images, Websitewith No Comments
One of the features that a lot of clients request is sliding, or rotating, images. A lot of web visitors end up at this website – on our blog – looking to find out how to implement this feature on their own site. We wrote a blog post called “How Do We Get Rotating or [...]
Read More →How Do We Get Rotating or Sliding Images For Our Website?
on May 23, 2012in Blogtags: Gallery, Image, Images, Rotating, Slider, Slideshow, Slideshow Gallery, TheThe Image Slider, Websites, WordPresswith 3 Comments
A lot of clients come to us asking how they can get rotating or sliding images for their business’ website. In truth, the simplicity of adding an image slider will depend largely on the infrastructure of your website – if you have built a basic HTML website using Dreamweaver or Microsoft Frontpage (or similar), you [...]
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