What can help set a great blog post apart from a good blog post? Sometimes, it can be as simple as merely adding a picture or two. Pictures help to…

1. emphasize a point
2. break up text
3. visualize the point being made

When I was on my recent vacation, I found myself taking pictures of stop signs, or building construction, or police cars.  All the while I was thinking - ”I’m sure I’ll be able to use these in a blog post.” In fact, sometimes a picture can generate an idea for a blog post (on occasion a picture can be a blog post - i.e. “Caption This”).

If you don’t have a library of your own stock photos, there are plenty of free & low cost stock photo sites out there.  You can just go to Flickr and search for a matching image there. Of course, make sure that the license of the photo gives you the rights to use it on your site, before you actually do.

Here are a few photos from my personal Flickr stream, feel free to use them.  Link back to them or to here to let me know the interesting and different ways that you use them.

Filed under: Design & Development, Social Marketing on Monday, June 2nd, 2008 by Simon Heseltine |
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