The images tag is for questions related to the loading, formatting, saving, compressing, and display of images. Images are typically rendered as a two dimensional matrix of pixels, but stored in a variety of formats and compressions, such as .jpg, .png, .bmp, .tif, and others. This tag should also ...
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Why insert static files ( css, images, js, ecc ) in a subdomain?
Why so many big and little sites inserts static files ( css, images, js, ecc ) in a subdomain like media.example.com or s2.static.example.com ?
What are the advantages ?
Why not just a directory ...
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How do I get images containing text to be indexed by search engines?
I am building a small portfolio website for a friend, and being in advertising and all, she hates the standard fonts and wants everything written in a custom font.
As CSS font-embedding is not really ...
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How do I add a favicon to my website?
What markup is the modern standard for adding a favicon to my site? What is the standard image format and size?
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Should you add version information to images on your website?
If you have images on your website that are likely to change (e.g. have a different watermark), but the same image name, should you add version information to the end of the image name, or would this ...
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Is it worth it to change my entire user images file structure to take advantage of simple browser caching?
On one of my mobile sites, I simply store my user's profile images as '1.jpg' in their user folder, and incrementally go from there for any extra pics they upload. This means that whenever they change ...
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Image SEO - always repeat main keyword in alt text?
I'm working on an Easter Island website and I'm currently redesigning my image system. Virtually all my photos are of Easter Island. My question is, should I always include the keywords "Easter ...
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What should filenames and URLs of images contain for SEO benefit?
We know that good site architecture usually looks like this:
example-company.com/
example-company.com/about/
example-company.com/contact/
example-company.com/products/
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jQuery image slider with different sized images
All of the jQuery image sliders I've seen require images to be the same size.
Do you know any which can dynamically resize their display pane to fit the size of the image. I have seen this done on ...
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SVG in CSS backgrounds
Edit:
How can I detect in php if the client browser is capable of displaying SVG as CSS background ?
I renamed my stylesheet from .css to .css.php. So I can include at the beginning:
<?php
...
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What is the standard image size(s) for facebook (corporate page), twitter and youTube?
I am going to employ the services of a graphic designer, to create logos/ images for my website for the following sites:
Facebook (corporate page)
Twitter (twitter account for the business)
YouTube ...
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Return first image source from google images
Is there a way to fetch the first image source from google search if I have a search term?
For example if input is tomato, ouput would be ...
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Amazon S3 or Dedicated Storage Server for small business site Image Hosting
We have a small business website that needs to host lot of images and we are trying to decide if we need s3 to host all our images or should we just use a NAS for storing and hosting our images
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If someone takes a photo of my product and posts it on the web do I have the right to use it on my website?
If someone takes a photo of my product and posts it on the web do I have the right to use it on my website?
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1answer
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Google's microdata for product images which aren't displayed in the page?
My internet shop displays thumbnails of products' images, and I see that these thumbnail are (slowly) being indexed by Google. I want also full images to be indexed. (I've seen some other questions on ...
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Convenient practice for where to place images?
A lot of developers place all image files inside a central directory, for example:
/i/img/
/images/
/img/
Isn't it better (e.g. content architecture, on-page SEO, code maintainability, filename ...
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1answer
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Block images on Russian domain .ru via htaccess?
I have a WordPress website which accepts anonymous comments and images. We are receiving spam in the form of Russian porn, with images hotlinked from websites on the Russian domain .ru
As we are ...
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Image not updating for some users
I don't know if this is the best practice, but we added an image with a snow delay for our school. For some users the image wouldn't come up. Is this a matter of the browser or something else? I had ...
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Should image directories be indexable or not, for SEO?
By default, I have directory indexing turned off via apache, to limit oracle attacks to find php scripts. Should I turn directory indexing on for /images/ folders, to make all the images on the site ...
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Storing User-uploaded Images
What is the usual practice for handling user uploaded photos and storing them on the database and server?
For a user profile image:
After receiving the image file from user, rename file to ...
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How to store images of wordpress on picasa or other image hosting sites?
What is the best way to start a photo blog with wordpress, so that images are stored in picasa, by image I mean image in all sizes, thumbnails, featured images and so on ...
The problem is that there ...
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Any tool for image to CSS?
I have an image (not gradient) color, I tried to identify the color code but not possible. Is there any tool to convert image to css or css color code?
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How to spot plagiarized logos?
Is there a better method of finding if a logo is a shameless copy of another logo, other than Google's image search tool?
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How do I replace images with any other technique for better SEO?
My website has many images which aren't good since we have a lot of content inside of them which Google won't know about. So by using CSS or JS isn't there a solution with which we can convert these ...
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How to make background image black and white?
Are there any filters that would make background image black-and-white?
I have an image set as the background image using css, but now I need to apply a filter so that an image is shown in black and ...
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2answers
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How to show a preview thumbnail on Facebook of a imageless website?
I have recently designed a website with no img tags, only one big fat CSS sprite with everything in it. Though, when I try to publish that website on Facebook, it won't show a preview thumbnail — ...
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Uploading screenshots to Flickr
I have finally decided to create my own portfolio to show off my works for clients. I've seen on countless web design agency websites where they show screenshots of the websites they made for their ...
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1answer
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Am I allowed to link to the movie posters from IMDB?
I am planning on making a site that deals specifically with movie trailers. I would like to know if I am allowed to link to the movie posters from imdb and display them on my site.
I am mainly ...
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1answer
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Set expiry date for image or resource
How do I set expiry date for an image?
Is this a server side operation or can it be done as an html tag attribute?
What if I only want to set different expiry dates for different images/resources?
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2answers
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SEO Impact on changing the resolutions of already indexed images
Let's say that i have a image restaurant-photo_big.jpg which is 640x480..
How can I change the resolution safely for SEO purposes? it's the same identical image but 800x800 (it may be cropped out ...
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1answer
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Are filename extensions required on served images?
If the image I'm serving has the proper HTTP Content-Type is it also required that I have the image filename extension (JPG/PNG/GIF)?
Or can I just include the image in the page without?
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Ensuring accessible image-based rollover navigation?
I'm building an image-based horizontal navigation bar for a site, as the designer wants a specific typeface, and the font is not licensed for embedded web use. I assumed the best way to do this would ...
2
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1answer
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Redirects On Image Files to Counter Google Image Gallery
The recent update to the way that Google displays images appears to have resulted in a significant drop in the traffic reaching the actual pages of our website. We are considering potential solutions ...
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1answer
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Image disappearing on reload in Safari and Chrome [closed]
I created a website for a client as seen here: http://einzigartig-reisen.com/
Notice the clock icon in the right sidebar. Works fine on first load. Now reload the page (by pressing F5 or the reload ...
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What media should I store on server and what media should I store on 3rd party hosts?
Right now, amazon s3 holds all my images, but I must wonder, is that necessary or for the best?
It seems to me like for images, such as a favicon, I should just host it on my own server since s3 ...
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How should creative commons attribution for images be provided?
Clicking through from Flickr to the CreativeCommons.org definition for "Some Rights Reserved" you find that you can reuse an image as long as you provide attribution.
If we want to use the image in ...
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how to save a png as a smaller file but the same resolution?
not sure what stackexchange site is the best for this question.
I have a scanned jpg file with below properties and size 8.5MB
pixel dimension: 2468 × 3484 pixels
print size: 208.96 × 294.98 ...
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How to check if someone is using my website resources?
How can I check whether someone is using the resources hosted on my website?
I have a website (coded in PHP) and I have uploaded a few images there. I want to know who is using those images on other ...
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What's the original image address from a adobe scene 7 site?
Initially i would like to find out an image from nike store, then i found this:
http://images.nike.com/is/image/DotCom/404128_010_A?wid=890&hei=550
here Nike uses adobe scene7 for its dynamic ...
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Image for sharing on Facebook/G+?
Is it possible to add an image to a html page that only shows up when sharing page on Facebook/G+? The image should not be visible in the html page since it contains a Flash game, but I would like it ...
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Upload multiple images via website
I have a requirement to allow the users to upload multiple images at once, like the way you upload photos to a photo printing website. I am looking for suggestions as to what technology and which ...
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any SEO sense in embedding EXIF metadata on web site images?
I got a quick question and would love to know your opinion.
I develop a CMS that in it's large part is very SEO-centric with many features that allow to control various individual parts of a web ...
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Image SEO with overlaid text?
I have a single image that I am using repeatedly with different text overlaid. If you hover over this image it will also give you a tooltip with more information. Of course, the text overlaid could ...
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Image folder name for SEO [duplicate]
We develop and sell ActiveX and .NET controls through our website. After doing some redesign works, every product will have its own top-level folder on the webserver. For instance, the home page for ...
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Thumbnail preview rotator on mouse-over - what is it called?
I've been searching for hours now but can't get any tutorial on this.
I have these thumbnails on my homepage which are the first images of their corresponding posts.
What I want is that when I ...
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Joomla 2.5 - Problem with scaling (resizing) images in editor
I have very strange problem with inserting and then scaling images in Joomla editor (Joomla version 2.5, clean install).
Insert button works normal, but I'm unable to scale image (drag by corners). ...
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Nginx: different content to specific request method
I have the image in the url (my server): http://www.example.com/example.jpg
If my user put this image url on his site: return the image (normal).
If my user put this image url on his browser: return ...
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Images randomly not showing up
I just uploaded a website for a client wich looked good while previewing locally. When i visit it on the server though some images aren't loading properly. It seems te be quite random, and sometimes ...
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issue with wordpress theme background on widescreen computers
I am using the theme irresistible and I wanted to a add a picture of the person who i am building the site for, however normally the background css uses repeat, but i dont want their picture to repeat ...
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php image upload library
I'm looking to NOT reinvent the wheel with an image upload system in php. Is there a good standalone library that allows for:
Creating the system for uploading, renaming, and perhaps resizing ...
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How to automatically generate html table from image in Linux?
In Photoshop, you can easily devide the image into zones using point and click and it automatically generates the corresponding html with image slices addressed in tables. Gimp also has a Slice ...
