Covers the delivery and display of photographs, graphics and other visual elements.
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Images in blog posts
I see a lot of blogs (coding horror for example) that seem to feature random pictures in the entries.
Would I be correct in saying they probably didn't seek permission to use those images? What are ...
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SEO for multimedia site with little text
How would one optimize a flash website that consists primarily of images and video and has minimal text (i.e. only navigation), without changing the visual design of the site?
If one were to use the ...
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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
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How to compile all design images as used in website design?
I am just coming into a new web design role and so far I can find no central repository of all images as used on the website. I have previously, at some point in the design process, inserted all ...
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User Upload of Images & Copyright Issues
I have a hand-coded site. I just started working on a strategy that will allow users to integrate their images and drawings into the site. The problem is that I know users will start uploading images ...
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Cheap stock images website (per image pricing) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are sources of free/cheap stock photos? (Additional requirements, read description.)
I like the stock images and illustrations on istockphoto.com but they're kind ...
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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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1answer
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How can I port all my images to imgur to prevent bad images across the network?
I thought my image host was always up and did have enough bandwidth to support my images, most of my images are screenshots I took with a tool. Now apparently I've got a mail that I'm reaching the ...
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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 ...
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Is there a tool or browser add-on which will overlay images with their filename?
Is there a tool or browser add-on which will overlay images with their filename and/or alt tag? Without needing to mouse over each one.
Something like this made up example:
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CSS2 way of accomplishing what CSS3 border-image does?
What is the best way these days to make a visually interesting border around a div using images? CSS3's border-image would perfect, but it's CSS3. I don't want to rely on that yet. Is there a ...
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Legal to modify game art and screenshots for my own site?
I'm currently working on building a video game related website, and I'm wondering if it's legal to use screenshots or concept art that game studios post on their official sites. At most I would want ...
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Linking with an image: Background vs <img>
What is considered best practice (semantically) when using text with an image to link to an internal page or category?
Option 1
<nav>
<a href="/kittens">
<img ...
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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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3answers
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Serving images from different domain
Google audit:
Serve static content from a cookieless
domain (15)
2.65KB of cookies were sent with the following static resources. Serve
these static resources from a domain
that does not ...
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3answers
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My site is getting popular, bandwidth expensive
I'm running a (small) image hosting site which has been getting a little bit of traction lately (2,000 to 5,000 visitors a day, spikes up to 10,000). It's hosted on Linode and I've already run out of ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Image Archives for <hr> and border image replacement
Do you know any quality image archives for <\hr> and border
For example an image archives for <\hr> : http://siahdesign.com/archives/210
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1answer
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My Google image ad is consistently receiving 0 impressions
I set up my first Google image ad two days ago. It was approved almost immediately, but I have seen 0 impressions and 0 clicks since then.
I tried setting my CPC to $4, which I figured should be high ...
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3answers
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How To: Super quality images and text
Sometimes I come across sites that are different than others in terms of quality. For example (sorry for the ad), http://www.taskrabbit.com/ . The image quality is perfect, everything "shines" and the ...
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1answer
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Where do I get the standard, tiny Facebook and Twitter icons?
I've seen a lot of sites with tiny 't' and 'f' logos for Facebook and Twitter. They're pretty common, but the only images I can find available are for paid icon sets.
Are people really using custom ...
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1answer
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SEO for images: can I use a different (cookieless) domain?
We want to increase the value of some of our important images by means of SEO, and
we want to start serving them from a different, i.e. cookieless, domain.
We want to go from ...
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2answers
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where to store images?
i am making a website that will have a big ammount of photos and images, where should i store these is a database an efficient option?
thanks
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1answer
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image behind adsense
i want to have an image behind my google adsense
just like the below image
but when i tried the following css
L{
background: transparent url("http://www.triphp.com/images/adback.png") repeat-x ...
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Publishing A Graphic Novel Online?
My employer runs a writing contest every year. Every year we publish the top three results in each category to our website. No big deal. This year, a category has been added for a graphic novel.
What ...
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1answer
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How do I increase the image size upload limit in Magento?
Is there a way to increase the maximum image upload file size from 2mb to 5 or 10mb?
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2answers
252 views
Image editor Applet
I'm using codeigniter + jquery on a linux server and i want to integrate in my website a photo/image editor (after that an user have uploaded an image, he must be able to edit it), i need just some ...
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1answer
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What product can you use to zoom and focus cursors when screencasting--what's the best screencast software? [closed]
I've tried iShowU to do screencasts, but the software does not allow you to zoom in and focus on where your cursor is point.
What is the best software for MacOS that allows you to do simple effects ...
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2answers
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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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2answers
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Link of image and text
I am currently linking related and text (caption) in the following way:
<a href="/link"><img src="image.jpg" ... />This is caption</a>
Meaning I combine both and text inside the ...
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4answers
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Software to combine multiple images
Combining multiple images into a single image is a good way to improve performance by reducing the number of http requests. But how do most webmasters manage their combined images?
Is there any ...
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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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votes
1answer
557 views
How can you create text as a png file to minimize file size?
I've seen this trick on lots of websites, but I don't know how I could create this myself easily. It's basically text or a logo which is saved on a transparent background with a small border, to ...
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1answer
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iFrames from Skydrive: yes, no, how
I have a two-pronged question.
First: SEO Concerns aside, should I be concerned about using iFrames on my site as far as viruses etc go? I am using skydrive to host my images and it provides an ...
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3answers
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How do I know what image type to use?
I'm working on a website which will use images in several different applications, from action buttons to avatars to larger detail images. What factors should I take into consideration to decide ...
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1answer
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Is there any reason why a GIF image would show in FF/Chrome and not IE?
I've been asked to investigate why the images on a particular site cannot be viewed in IE (6/7 and 8, multiple machines) but is visible in all other browsers. I've verified that it has nothing to do ...
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6answers
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Which is faster, adding rounded corners to images, or adding rounded corners in CSS
Which of the following will load faster,
Creating a square image and adding rounded corners via CSS
Adding rounded corners to the image by default and not using the extra css.
Also, if 2 is ...
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2answers
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Free Invisible image counter in the html page
I need to track number of visits of my publication, but site allows only to insert images, and no javascript.
I would like to insert white 1x1 pixel image.
Are the any internet services which ...
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1answer
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Fixed background images not displaying correctly on any web browser
http://i.stack.imgur.com/z8yEP.png <- screenshot for this question (not enough reputation)
I am using fixed position images as seen at
css-tricks.com/examples/BlurryBackgroundEffect/
to create a ...
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6answers
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What is a good program for optimizing images on a website?
I have some extensive website that I need to analyze the images and see if they can be optimized. Can any one recommend a good program for this?
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2answers
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Does specifying explicit image dimensions help site performance?
I ran some audits on a new web application we are about to launch. Chromium is suggesting in network utilization that a few images on our site do not have height/width dimensions explicitly declared. ...
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2answers
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Communicating image size, best practice
If you are developing a html document strictly using current best practice of keeping styling out of the markup how do you best communicate image sizing?
Past best practice wants image height and ...
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2answers
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When should i consider having text as an image in my website heading
i see many sites that have their heading as an image. what is the benefit of this? when is a best practice to use text as images as opposed to just having text in my html. is this just for ...
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2answers
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How do I make a sprite full of different images (hover, non-hover, etc)?
I understand there are tools on the net to make a sprite, but I'd like to learn how to create icons for the different states of the icon. Is there an easy way to make all these different variations ...
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2answers
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Image CDN with API?
My company uses flickr and picasa web albums as poor man's content delivery networks (CDN) for image hosting, but I'm curious if anyone has any recommendations on any other services that might be ...
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1answer
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Best Way to Backup and Restore Linux System in VPS? [closed]
I might be opting to using the daily versions of some VPS services. I want to be able to continue from when I started after shutting down and removing the server.
What is the best way to backup and ...
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4answers
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Where can I find graphic artists who can draw clean Windows 7/Mac style icons?
Not sure if this should be a community wiki, but I'd like to find some graphic artists who can create beautiful Windows 7 icons (for use on the web)... somewhat similar in style to the image below.
...
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3answers
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How to pre-load images used only on hover?
I have a link that starts with one background image and then changes on hover to another. Both background images are set in the CSS. My browsers (any of them) don't seem to load the hover image ...
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6answers
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How can I encourage the browser to download images from CSS file faster?
I use CSS to place a lot of my images (as backgrounds for divs) and I often find that they load very slowly this way. They seem to be the last thing to load. Even small little icon images take a ...
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4answers
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Thumbnails for videos in multiple formats?
I have some intranet training videos made over the years in a bunch of formats (AVI, WMV, MOV, RealPlayer) and would like to provide something like a preview function - maybe a thumbnail animated GIF ...
