Website free stock photography
Website free stock photography
Each website must be incomplete if it did not add the photos. Photos in the website have many functions, both as headers, decorations, or just to illustrate the article. Moreover, photos can also strengthen the character of a website. There is research that says that the website is accompanied by photographs the owner will make visitors more confidence on the website.
Photos for the website can be obtained from several sources, the first is the shooting itself and the second is to find on the Internet. For the first way would require special expertise, at least the skill to edit the photo in order to be eligible to show. The second way is quite practical, but it is actually also quite risky, which could be in breach of copyright.
But fortunately there are now several webs that provide royalty-free photographs. In a sense these photos free to download and use without paying and without the tangled affairs of the copyright. The photos on the web are usually obtained from the various communities of photographers and designers who voluntarily want to share some of his collection to the public. Because it is free, of course, the photographs displayed on this web free web-watermark.
Many real free stock photography site like this. Indeed, most of the photographs displayed there are not good quality. But not all do it, below there are several free photo storage provider with a pretty good quality.
Stock Vault http://www.stockvault.net/
Freepixels http://www.freepixels.com/
Kave Wall http://www.kavewall.com/stock/ Stocks
Stock.XCHNG http://www.sxc.hu/index.html
Free Range http://www.freerangestock.com/
Speed Vs Design: tips to speed up website loading
Speed Vs Design: tips to speed up website loading
Perhaps the title of the article is already seen what will be discussed. This article discusses the view that greatly affects the speed of loading a website. Indeed, both of these can be very contradictory. On the one hand we want to have a web interface that 'wow' with a variety of pictures, accessories, and features. But this turns out to greatly affect the loading speed of websites. The fact also proves that the website is too hard to make user be unwilling to open it.
Fortunately, there are now several sites analyzer that can be used to measure the weight of the homepage of a website. One is Website Optimization (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/). This site provides the facility to measure the size of a homepage of a website, will appear the result which is roughly like this picture:
There are a few tips to speed up website loading, among others:
1. Try each image will be used is small, ie below about 20KB with a resolution of 72dpi. For Photoshop users, use the "Save for web & devices" that can be accessed via the file menu -> Save for web & devices, or via Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S.
2. If the images used to have lots of colors (like photos), use the JPG format, but if the image has fewer colors (such as clipart or logo), use the GIF format and also adjust the color palette according to needs, eg, 16 color or 32 color (can be arranged also at the facility "Save for web & devices" such as the number 1).
3. Try not very long text, ie not more than 5000 characters. If it is forced to write more than that, remove the article in multiple pages.
4. Use bright colors, bright colors are believed to have faster loading time than the old colors.
5. Wherever possible avoid the use of multimedia files such as music or video on the homepage.
6. Use as little as possible widgets, widgets reduce unnecessary.
7. As far as possible avoid the use of 'linked object'. Linked object means that the objects (typically images or advertisements) originating outside the web but were viewed.
8. If using CSS, try these CSS files total size of not more than 20KB.
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