The Right Ways To Use Images In Your Websites

The content of your website is what drives people to visit you. Good content retains visitors and keeps them coming back. Text makes up the biggest portion of your content, for the most part, followed by images and graphics.

Because images play such a big role in user experience, you should make sure that they are used properly. Misuse of images will drive people away. Read this article to learn the proper approach to use images in your website.

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Have you ever seen images on the web where the outline of the subjects are fuzzy or jagged instead of smooth? These images were probably sized too big for their resolution. Low resolution is intended for small image dimensions.

When you enlarge the image dimensions without increasing the resolution, you end up with a pixelated image. That means you can actually see the pixels that make up the image. Such poor quality images give users a bad viewing experience. Therefore, if you want to use an image of a specific size on your web page, make sure that the image has the properly resolution.

As mentioned, text should make up the biggest part of your content. Even though “a picture paints a thousand words”, you should not follow that concept on your website. Words are what is important because search engines can only index words.

Screen readers used by visually-impaired web users can only read words. Therefore, avoid using images to replace what you can convey in text. You can use images to emphasize a point that you have made in your text, but do use images in place of text.

No doubt you have come across discussion about copyright content on the web. Images are notoriously easy to copy. However, that does not give you the right to use them if these images are not in the public domain.

Owners of images have copyright over them. Anyone who uses a copyrighted image without the owner’s permission violates copyright laws. Do not get yourself into that situation. If there is an image that you want to use, be sure that you get permission to use it before you include it on your website.

Since visually-impaired users use screen readers, how are images dealt with? The image tag in your HTML code has an attribute call “alt”, which stands for “alternative”. In this attribute, you can type in a description of your image. The screen reader cannot see the image, but it can read the text in the alt attribute. This is how you make your images accessible to the visually-impaired.

One place where you can get images to use on your website are stock image providers. For a fee, you have access to a collection to stock photos that you can use on your website. Keep in mind that these images are available to anyone who pays the fee, so someone else could be using the same image that you are. Therefore, it is advisable not to use too many stock images. Otherwise, your website will not original.

Keep these points in mind when you use images on your website. If you can stick to this good practice, you will get the best use out of your images.