A Picture’s Worth A Thousand Words
We have all heard the saying and it is just as relevant in the blogging world as it is to your normal day to day life. Pictures can give a post life and catch peoples eyes. Want to lower your bounce rate? Add a picture. Want to add emphasis to a great story? Add a picture. A good picture will help pull your post off the screen and keep the readers attention.
That brings us to the topic at hand, I have found a nice site that you can use for blog pictures. They allow you to search the site and use any picture you want. Not only that but they allow you to hotlink to the picture! They provide convenient cut and paste code for your site that allows you to choose picture size and alignment. This is probably the easiest site to use that I have seen so far when it comes to stock photos for web sites.
Site Design
I have signed up for others but I never go back because most of them seem to be a hassle to use but this site has a nice design that is simple, clutter free, and easy to navigate. All it takes is a quick registration (it took me about five minutes total including the time it took for me to download the email to outlook) and you are ready to go. The main thing that they ask is that you add the website that you are posting the picture on so that they can keep people from hot linking that are not members. Here is a sample of the quality of pictures that you can choose from;
Final Thoughts
If there is one thing that I would fix about the site it’s this, while you can choose align left or right for the pictures there is no choice for center. That is an easy fix though but it was a feature I looked for. For those of you who don’t know all you need to do is add a piece of code to the code you get from them. Just choose none for alignment and then put the center tags around the code that you get. That works every time for me.
So if you are looking for some good pictures that are free to use then try out Acobox. You should be able to find a picture to fit your post.
Nice site, I will give this one a try for my blog. I do like to have lots of pictures and this will help me fill my blog with wonderful content. Thanks!
Yeah, I like that, I’d rather put in pictures and presentation to my site rather than put a very long content which can be boring to read.
The pictures are really nice. Really the heading is absolutely perfect.