Covers the delivery and display of photographs, graphics and other visual elements.
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wget - download external images [closed]
I'm using wget -A to download images from a page.
This works fine, when images are hosted on the same domain as the page.
But this won't download images hotlinked from other pages (e.g. imageshack)
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Does an image's filename affect its seo?
When I name my image files, I always use a descriptive file name such as red-mercedes-slk.jpg. I've always done this without thinking, but I wondered if it actually benefits my rankings in any way.
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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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2answers
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Do image backlinks count as backlinks?
If i have lots of images appearing tumblr blogs, the sort of tumblogs with very little text just reams and reams of images for people to browse through (example - http://whereisthecool.com/). If my ...
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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?
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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 ...
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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 ...
4
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1answer
2k views
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 ...
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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 ...
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3answers
953 views
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 ...
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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 ...
3
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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 ...
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2answers
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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 ...
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1answer
91 views
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?
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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 ...
3
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2answers
892 views
What zoomable image viewers are there for websites? [closed]
What zoomable image viewers are there? By these I mean tools that one can embed in a website to let a user zoom in on and pan around a high res image, a canonical example being http://www.zoomify.com/ ...
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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?
...
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1answer
342 views
Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail
In a website, we have a JavaScript that opens an image when people click on the thumbnail, it seems like Google only indexes the thumbnail not the actual image with real dimensions, I was wondering if ...
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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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1answer
133 views
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: ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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4answers
2k views
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!), ...
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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 ...
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votes
3answers
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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
187 views
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?
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3answers
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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 ...
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3answers
2k views
How can I replicate Google Page Speed's lossless image compression as part of my workflow?
I love that Google's Page Speed is able to losslessly compress a lot of my images, but I'd love to make it part of my workflow, prior to uploading a site and making it live.
Is there anything I can ...
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2answers
119 views
Image libraries sites to download pro images with no credits expiration policy
I found professional image libraries sites like http://www.istockphoto.com or http://www.dreamstime.com are quite useful to add some cool images to a website either when filling its contents or when ...
2
votes
1answer
62 views
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 ...
0
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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 ...
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 ...
6
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1answer
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Force Facebook to use large images when sharing my page
When I share content from my site it posts an image to Facebook as it should. I have noticed that the image is small, roughly 100x100 at best. Yet on other people's posts of content from other sites ...
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1answer
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Question on (size) relation between diferrent images on a website
I have a website that uses 2 image sizes:
thumbnail
profile
They have different sizes (obviously), but their aspect (i.e. width/height) ratios are different. My question9s) is this:
I would like ...
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1answer
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How can I specify the image for Facebook share or like?
Is there a way I can make one of the images on a website more likely to be posted with a Facebook like or recommend?
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2answers
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protect website images with copyright
i have a website where firms can have a page dedicated to them ( like a directory ) and the sellers of my website are responsible for taking photos of what in the firm the administration of the firm ...
5
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2answers
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SEO for naming images
I have a website with many images embedded within articles. I do not want to miss traffic by image search. It is easier to save images with numbers, but will this affect SEO rank? I mean image search ...
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1answer
189 views
Loading 300dpi images for download
How can I add 4x5 300 dpi images to my website for download from clients without the images being enlarged on the website?
3
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1answer
615 views
Progressive JPEG
This Post: "Progressive" JPEG: Why do many web sites avoid rendering JPEGs that way? Pros, cons? stat that many browsers do not support Progressive JPEG citing this Wikipedia Article.
What ...
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3answers
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Image Optimization for my site
I use a hosted CMS and do not have server side access so I cannot set expiry for images but was told it helps to optimize my images and improve my site speed. My question is what exactly does it mean ...
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) ...
3
votes
2answers
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Storing image order without a database
The classic question is whether to store images in a database or on the file system. In my case I feel it is probably best to store it on the file system.
However the specific order of the albums and ...
5
votes
1answer
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Smush.It or similar lossless image shrinking with API
Is there a free service, with an API, that performs lossless image file size reduction?
Currently we use Smush.it which isn't perfect (have to resort to command line tools), although its FAQ does ...
2
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3answers
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Would reducing the quality and/or size of images fall under fair use?
I was looking on flickchart tonight and was wondering how they legitimized the usage of movie posters on their site, as I figure that those posters would be copyrighted. However it's been online for a ...
2
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1answer
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Image Search Ranking
What are image-specific factors that contribute to ranking in Google Image Search?
Looking for what contributes to ranking and relevancy of images above and beyond the SEO of the hosting site itself.
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