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Have you ever been to a website and felt that you had been there before? Or maybe you were looking for a service provider of some sort… started googling for that type of service… and found page after page of different companies offering the same thing… and started to feel like they all said the same thing and their websites even looked like duplicates of each other? If you haven’t, I can guarantee that your customers have and the last thing you want is for them to feel that when they are on your website.

So let’s say you have a landscaping company… then your color themes will likely include greens, as will every other landscaping company in your area. You probably offer similar services, and say similar things about your company. So what will it be about your website to make you different than the others? What will make them decide that you are better or different or a cut above or make them feel like you are real and trustworthy? Well hopefully your reputation will proceed you, however if a potential client does not know of you or your competitors then consider your website one of the biggest deciding factors. I believe that one of the best things you can do for your website is to present original and high quality photos showing who you are and what you do.

While stock photography is always an option, if you have a digital camera the best choice is always to produce your own photos. Often affordable stock photography has been used in many other websites and may hurt you more than help. Here are some ideas of photos that you can provide your web developer to make your website stand out:

• Photos of your employees working
• If you sell a service then before and after photos
• If you sell a product than many high resolution photos of the product from all angles
• Profile Photos of your employees
• Photos of your office (inside or out)
• Photos of your equipment

If you would like assistance in adding original high quality photos to your website then email us. We can even set you up with a photographer if you prefer to outsource the photography production.

2013-04-13 22:41:07 | tags: content image gallery increase profits marketing small business web design web development webpage layout photos images originality

JQuery Spinning Image Cube Slideshow

http://keith-wood.name/imageCube.html

Pros: Open Source, Ease of implementation, Many options, unique

Cons: a little sketchy around the edges, especially if you change the levels

Use: Would be good to use in a slideshow or part of a feature

TN3 JQuery Gallery

http://www.tn3gallery.com/examples/

Pros: Beautiful implementation, Fullscreen slideshow, many options, Flickr support, Multiple albums, scrollbar with thumbnails

Cons: less features with free option, not open source

Use: a beautiful way to show images, artwork, photography in an aesthetically pleasing way

JQuery AD Gallery

http://coffeescripter.com/code/ad-gallery/

Pros: Open Source, Super Easy Implementation, captions, titles, scrollbar with thumbnails, super customizeable

Cons: Rough interface

Use: This is a great tool for many implementations that you can customize it for. I have used it from everything from news headline sliders to showing before and after photos of projects

JQuery Gallerific

http://www.twospy.com/galleriffic/index.html

Pros: Open Source, Pretty Interface, captions and descriptions, Many options, Speed Optimizations, thumbnail navigation, custom controls and effects

Cons: You must create your own thumbnail images

Use: Displaying photographs or other images

Pikachoose JQuery Slider

http://www.pikachoose.com/

Pros: Open Source, Many Styles, Many Options, Optional Thumbnails, Sweet transitions

Cons: Themes cost $

Use: This one works really well as a content slider (carousel) for the top of your website

JQuery Cycle Plugin

http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/

Pros: Super Easy Implementation, Many slideshow transitions, Can be customized to be used in many other ways

Cons: rough interface

Use: I use this one in a zillion different ways and customize it to allow for any flash type slideshow or animation for html chunks

JQuery Rotating Billboard

http://tympanus.net/codrops/2009/12/16/creating-a-rotating-billboard-system-with-jquery-and-css/

Pros: Beautiful interface, Unique

Cons: Lots of image slicing, intricate work

Use: would be a great use for advertising banners or to promote a specific thing on your site

JQuery Featured Content Slider

http://webdeveloperplus.com/jquery/featured-content-slider-using-jquery-ui/

Pros: Pretty Interface, Thumbnails, Titles and descriptions, Thumbnails even have titles, Open Source

Cons: Not as simple of an implementation

Use: To show off the featured content on your website in an eye catching way

Nivo JQuery Slider

http://nivo.dev7studios.com/

Pros: Open Source, Simple implementation, many transition options, Pretty interface

Cons: no thumbnails

Use: For featured Content on your website

Fancy JQuery Image Gallery

http://www.admixweb.com/2010/03/08/how-to-create-a-fancy-image-gallery-with-css3/

Pros: Very Simple interface, Pretty Interface, hovering an image autozooms image overlayed, Simple Implementation

Cons: No titles or descriptions

Use: This is great for a simple gallery that will pop up a larger image when hovering

2011-12-29 09:19:48 | tags: code snippet javascript web development image gallery carousel animation web design