Why pictures work online – my gues...

I wrote the post below for the Chris Seddon Photography website. He’s a photographer with a specialist interest in music and especially taking pictures of bands at their gigs. They’re fantastic – and he also blogs about the techniques he tries with his camera. We love pictures. Photos. Images. They capture expressions lost in movement and help fix memories and feelings forever. If you’re a website owner, you’ll already know that your users love pictures. Using images on your website can do a number of jobs: • Show your products • Help make a...

The importance of responsible juxtaposit...

I want you to look at this screenshot as you would normally look at a webpage and tell me what you look at first: Screen shot of Sky News story on 10 March 2010 Do you, as I did, look at the image first then let your eye travel up to the headline? How many people don’t look at the headline? You could easily think this chap is Jon Venables – when the entire point of the article is to say he isn’t. Words are important but visually they’re not as strong as a photo or image on the page. It’s an obvious choice to put these two photos together but...