• Choosing images
• Adjusting Images
• Optimising Images
• Text Layout Styles
• Adding Media Files

Choosing images

Choosing images that compliment your website's professional content and underpins its message, takes careful thought. A perfectly chosen image can make a site stand out from its competitors.

Sourcing images

• Professional images can be found by our web team from stock image banks or shot especially by experienced photographers, such as the ones we have on retainer. Specialists can be made available for different styles including fashion and product photo shoots. Your web project is likely to have a photo sourcing budget included.
• Images taken in-house can be perfectly suitable, especially if some effort is made to shoot frames creatively, with image editing being implemented to clean up any of their failings. Our skilled staff are on hand to add the professional touch.

Supporting the message

Choosing images that fit in with your corporate style whilst underpinning their surrounding text content is essential. Images slow a pages download, subsequently they should be worthy of their inclusion and not just a page filler. Colours and styles should compliment each other.

Our team add search engine friendly accessibility code to all images, as does a feature in our content management system (CMS), as used by our CMS clients.

Image layout and size

Images can look awkward if their size, proportions and backgrounds do not match, additionally a poorly chosen layout can give the impression that they have been added in haste. Optimising the file size of images is essential for speedy downloads.

Manipulating images can take a great deal of skill, and our graphics department are at your service. However, some more basic adjustments can be carried out by anyone familiar with desktop programs. Try this free program. or search the google search engine for free programs here. We cannot guarantee the functionality of these programs and they are downloaded at your own risk.

Not all companies have creative personnel in-house, our web designers will be on hand and can offer a content maintenance program for areas our content management clients wish to outsource.

What to do next

If your site could be improved with our assistance, please contact us on 0845 330 2550 to discuss the best way forward.

Looking good

Most people can tell if an image looks professional or it looks like it was taken by an amateur. Our designers can make the difference by editing your image