Media Outreach

Copyrights (Part I: Image Use)

After almost 3 years of working with churches to develop their websites, I’ve discovered that all churches, big and small, want their content to look the best it possibly can. Generally, the best way to accomplish this is by integrating written and visual content in a manner that is both informative and visually appealing. However, [...]

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The Q: Should I use stock photos or my own photos?

Today, Greg talks about the balance of using stock images and your own images on your site. He gives you advice about obtaining permission to use images of your people should you chose to go that route, or other considerations you need to make before using your own images. pic by dextr

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Best Practices: Image Selection

In February, I wrote an article for the faithHighway e-zine about image optimization. I spoke in detail about the important technical factors of image selection… things such as dpi, cropping, and resizing. Like most things I write, it kind of read like it was generated by a robot. In doing so, I’m afraid that I [...]

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Best Practices: Image Placement within Content

You’ve probably heard “content is king”. And I agree, but if content is king image placement is his queen. The job of content is to tell the facts, the job of the image is to show the story. Together they rule the land of the webspace. I think I am like most people, in that [...]

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