Covers the delivery and display of photographs, graphics and other visual elements.
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Share on Facebook does not show thumbnail images
I have a PHP application which has a "Share on Facebook" button that,
On the development server shows the thumbnail images correctly and allows the user to select between them
On the live server, it ...
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1answer
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When email newsletters include Base64 encoded images, do email clients see them immediately?
When I send a newsletter with remote URLs most email clients will ask the user if he wants to load remote resources inside the message.
If I send an email using images with Base64 encoded strings as ...
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2answers
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Using scaled images or using same image everywhere?
I have an image lets say 300px*300px
I am using 3 different sizes of it on my site 100px*100px, 200px*200px, 300px*300px.
What will be the best for SEO.
Using same images everywhere or using 3 ...
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2answers
134 views
Does hiding images on 404 error affect SEO? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
SEO (or other) problems with a 404?
I have a dynamic website that allows registered users to upload and display images on the their profile page. As each user may upload ...
3
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1answer
163 views
Where can I get loading .png images that together make a loading spinner? [closed]
I have been googling for a while and am not finding anything useful other than .gif images. But due to the technology I am using, I need 2 or more .png images that together look like an animation.
...
4
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4answers
164 views
Where can i get photo collection for website/template
I'm developing website templates and wonder how to get (free or buy) photos of product sample for my templates. For example, collection if furniture, shirts, lingerie? Maybe you have preferences with ...
3
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0answers
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CSS rounded corners around image [closed]
I have tried several ways to get rounded corners around images without success. The best I got was using the image as background and applying the round corners style to the div as in this picture.
...
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1answer
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403 Forbidden on Images on my subdomains
I am pulling my hair out after multiple back and forths with 1and1 support both via email and telephone.
I've setup multiple subdomains via the 1and1 control panel and that looks to work fine. The ...
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3answers
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images based website speed
I have a wordpress site which 90% is based on images.
I've installed Wp-Super-Cache, now it seems to load a little bit faster.
I've made a speed test on Pingdom Tools:
Page size
4.7MB
Load time
...
2
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0answers
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Mysterious 403 errors on images with proper permissions [closed]
Recently I have been trying to install a forum on my website. At first I was having an issue with the forums alone but then I noticed it was occurring elsewhere on my website as well.
When I have ...
1
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2answers
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Strategy for image sizes
I run a site that has a lot of writers that generate quite a few articles a day.
I require them to provide two image sizes (one for the big headline image and one as the thumbnail). I've been wanting ...
1
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4answers
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Ideas for reducing storage needs and/or costs (lots of images)
I'm the webmaster for a small social network and have noticed that images uploaded by users are taking a big portion of the capacity available. These are mostly JPEGs.
What solutions could I apply to ...
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1answer
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Where can i get high quality vector graphics for web design?
I am looking for a place i can buy web 2.0 (cartooney mac-like) vector graphics for use on my sites..
Wheres the best place to go?
Thanks
Daniel
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1answer
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Lazyloading images and SEO
Lazyloading images with a noscript fallback. Should I expect any damage in the SERPs?
The site is completely thumbnail based. Also should I put a smaller image size in the noscript fallback to ...
0
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0answers
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wordpress website based on big resolution images [closed]
I have a wordpress website based on lare resolution images like 1920px wide and I really want to improve the website loading speed.
I've installed a cache plugin for wordpress, but I want more ...
0
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1answer
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Image Appears Small on website but not in photoshop
Sorry for the lame title..
I bought a template off template montser and I am trying to change some text on the header. The text is stored as a png image. I opened the psd file in photoshop and ...
2
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1answer
52 views
Where can I find graphics to use in printable worksheets I create and make available for download? [closed]
I'm looking to put up a website with worksheets that I make and they will need to have graphics in them. The worksheets will be available for download for free. Where can I find images that I can ...
0
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2answers
237 views
SEO with duplicate content [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have a nature photography site with multiple types of photo galleries. Each photo and ...
3
votes
2answers
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Where can I get photoshop images like this for my website
I see a lot of websites like this one and I wanted to see where people get these images from to have the raised panel floating on the background. I see a lot of these sites use this technique and i ...
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2answers
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Images Loading Very Slowly
I'm currently working on optimizing my site to try to decrease load time by using Pingdom tools. I seem to be having some difficulty with long load times on images.
For example, the body background ...
2
votes
1answer
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Real Time Push Server for Media
I am currently using a real time Push server to push text and small binary data. I am looking for a similar service for Media. Pubnub, which I currently use, limits data transfers to 1.8k, does anyone ...
0
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0answers
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The best location for pro sound clips and pro clip art images? [closed]
What is the best location to get for free or buy pro sound clips and pro clip art images?
I need 25-50 such images per each category of interest. For example, the category is "Restaurant" and I need ...
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3answers
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iPad and iPhone browser rotating images on site?
I am experiencing an odd occurance on a site I'm building right now where images are displayed 90 degrees different from how they are supposed to, but while maintaining the normal dimensions of the ...
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1answer
126 views
Image hot-linking - is it beneficial for SEO
Are there any SEO benefits to be had from allowing other sites to hotlink our images?
2
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1answer
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How to tell search engines about new image URL's?
I have just moved my website from a hosted provider to Windows Azure. The page URL's are all the same, but the location of the files is now different.
How can I tell search engines about the new ...
1
vote
1answer
43 views
Text Style behind an Image or Pic
There are times that surfers block images just to have a faster browsing
(Block download images)
I would like to have an option when this happen to show a style text
with a large text in colors.
So ...
3
votes
3answers
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Where to store large amounts of images for my site?
If i would want to deploy a site, like ebay, where people will be able to sell something, i would need to store large amounts of images, like many thausends of them and i would need to display about ...
4
votes
1answer
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Responsive images require excluding the width/height attributes?
One of the tenets of responsive web design is responsive images: sizing images using percentages rather than concrete values. This is done via CSS.
The problem I have is the standard practice of ...
4
votes
3answers
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I have a lot of images for my website. However, they all need to be cropped. Is there a way using graphics magick? [closed]
I have about 4000 images that need to be cropped. The task is rather simple really. They all have a white border that varies but is always between say 20 and 50 pixels. I want to use graphics magick ...
1
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1answer
184 views
How to keep a local copy of all images and still serve images from Amazon S3?
I'm using amazon s3 to host assets for my site (mainly images). At the moment when a user uploads an image via a form, the php script uploads the image directly to my bucket on s3.
I would like to ...
4
votes
3answers
317 views
Best practices when loading images for improving page loading speed
I am working on optimizing a page's loading speed. Here are some analytics:
Notice how the images, although only accounting for 65% of the total size (1.1MB), are by far the slowest loading ...
4
votes
2answers
168 views
Alt attributes for dynamically generated images
I have an image gallery for a commerce website which consists of several small thumbnail images and one large image. All of the images are photographs of the same product.
What would be the most ...
3
votes
2answers
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Bizarre image loading problem from apache2
Users have complained a few times about seeing a bizarre set of pink or green stripes on our webpage. At first I thought there were a rash of video card outages, but then someone sent me a screenshot ...
2
votes
1answer
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Offline lossless image shrinking
I'm looking for something like Smush.it or PunyPNG that works offline, preferably via command line interface that does gifs, jpegs and pngs.
Any suggestions?
2
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2answers
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Is there something like mathjax for chemical structures?
I am making a website where people can ask and answer questions to bioinformatical matters. I was very delighted with mathjax and its easy use. Is there something like that for chemical structures?
...
2
votes
2answers
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Oversizing images to produce better looking pages?
In the past, improper image resizing used to be a big no-no of web design (not mentioning improper compression format). Hence, for years I have been sticking to the policy where images (PNG or JPG) ...
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3answers
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Why do big sites host their images/css on external domains?
Why do big sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tumblr & so on) host their images/css on external domains?
Facebook:
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/
Twitter:
http://a0.twimg.com
Google: ...
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vote
1answer
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Forcing browser to load new image
I have recently been doing some image replacement work for a client, he sends me the new image png files and I upload them replacing the old ones with the new ones ( keeping the same name ). I tell ...
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0answers
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How to make upload images harder to access from url? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to restrict the download of all files in a folder?
I am wondering how Facebook, Google+, Twitter and so on prevent images users upload, from being navigated like: ...
1
vote
2answers
347 views
Free, basic checkbox images for a todo list [closed]
Does anyone have a set of simple, free checkbox images (checked and unchecked)? I've got to throw a todo list on my site and I'm not exactly a designer. Ones that look like they are hand written ...
2
votes
4answers
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How can I measure the size of a webpage?
I'm building a website at the moment that has several complicated background images and repeats. The file sizes for each of the images are quite large (I've compressed them down as much as possible!), ...
1
vote
1answer
195 views
Will delay loading images hurt SEO?
Related - SEO for naming images
In an effort to increase the perceived speed of a heavy homepage, I'm loading a number of the heavier images via javascript on document.ready. I'm using a blank gif ...
4
votes
3answers
361 views
Best semantic structure & SEO optimised approach for image replacement for badges?
In the past, I extensively used CSS image replacement techniques for SEO purposes and to separate presentation from content.
But from my reading of the Google Webmaster guidelines and other ...
0
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0answers
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I bought images from Dreamstime.com. Is it legal to…? [closed]
Is it legal to:
Bundle these images with a free give-away
Sell these images
Provide it to others in any way?
... if they are bought from Dreamstime.com or any other stock photo web site?
2
votes
1answer
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Are there any image manipulation tools for a website that don't require installation?
Are there any tools for to manipulate images that don't require installation.
Or better put, imagemagik and GD both require installing, whereas something like jwplayer or ckeditor (not image related ...
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2answers
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animated PNG Support
I know PNGs are pretty much supported across most browsers if not all at this point.
Are Animated PNG or APNG supported if PNG is supported or are they separate?
Do e-mail programs have the same ...
0
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3answers
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Does having images in an article based website is more likely to do good in seo or without images?
Is an article-based website more likely to do good in seo with or without images?
What are the benefits of having images in terms of seo?
Would stackoverflow sites perform better if there were ...
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1answer
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What are the most commonly used web picture/image/icon sizes?
In a similar way to what already exists regarding web banner sizes, is it possible to find the list of most commonly used picture/image/icon sizes on the web (e.g. 16x16 for small icons, 24x24 for ...
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2answers
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Weird unexpected image compression on a web server running Apache on Ubuntu?
I have a weird problem on my production web server running Apache on Ubuntu: it compresses my images thereby dramatically lowering their quality!
Actually I have two virtual hosts running, each ...
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0answers
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software to view random images [closed]
Is there any software available where in if i give the url or website it should randomly or in whatever manner show only images from that website.For example if mention www.wallpaper.com in the ...
