photography
Use of images on the web   use of images on the internet is nothing new. people have been adding photos to their web sites since the beginning.  photos if used correctly can ad to and enhance the look of your site. over use of photos can spell disaster and severally effect the success of your website. bigger is not better when it comes to the graphics design of your website. users with slow internet connection suffer when it takes over an hour to load your webpage. those users will simply move onto another website ignoring yours. try to keep your images smaller. using smaller images and reuse of them can reduce the amount of time it takes to load.   image formats   images come in many formats suitable for use on the internet. the most widely use format is the GIF. while it is the most popular the other formats commonly used are the JPG & PNG. the GIF, JPG, PNG have compression built in. a compressed file can not be displayed until it has decompressed. in general it takes longer for a JPG to decompress so that it can be displayed. the JPG has a much more complicated form of compression. the PNG is relatively new. it has been out since 1995 and has gained in popularity with web developers. it was intended to totally replace the GIF.   commercial graphics - stock photos   the need for commercial photos has been around for some time now. web Publishers, advertising agencies, graphic artists, and others use stock photography to fulfill their need for graphics. hiring a commercial photographer can be costly. stock photo sites have cropped up all over the internet offer low cost photos. because of copyright laws in the US you can not simply take photos from other websites and use them. you must pay royalties to the photographer.           Click here for our demo Photo Gallery