If you’re not already using images in your blog posts, you should start right away. Images not only break the action during long stretches of text and make them easier to read, but they also make the posts look pretty and draw the readers in.
So with that in mind, have a look at the following 5 tips, and follow the link at the bottom for 10 more.
1. Use Flickr’s Creative Commons search to find photos.
2. Use larger zoom images for those images that people may want to get a close-up of, but don’t necessarily use the exact same image.
3. Think of the future – you’re creating an archive.
4. Upload to your own server, or use secondary servers at your own risk.
5. Sometimes a photo is not enough, so create videos if you want to demonstrate interaction.
Originally posted on March 9, 2007 @ 1:38 am
It is good you state about hosting on your own server. I’ve noticed a lot of people hosting images on free image hosting services, instead of their own server.
if for whatever reason the image host shuts the site is going to have a lot of missing images.