Images are a very powerful way of attracting visitor interest and form a major part of a captivating web site. Images can be used individually, within a block of text or where you have a lot of visual information to share then you can use a thumbnail gallery or slideshow.

Images require more time to load than text and using a small image on the page that links to a larger one is a great way of managing intial page load times. Click on the images above and below to see larger versions.

It is also important that images are sized appropriately for use on the web. The size of the image is not only its physical height and width but also the file size. Current digital cameras produce very large images that are way in excess of what is required for web viewing.

To prepare an image for going on your web site generally requires some skill with an image processing package. If large images are loaded on to your web site they can present as a frustratingly slow experience, especially for those on a slower internet connection.

To ensure issues are avoided without the need for image processing skills, our image upload tool will automatically resize images to predefined limits to fit with your page design template.

In our thumbnail gallery and slideshow examples, the images are drawn from Panoramio.com the photographic database of world places. This is an example of using a data feed to get content from another provider.