When asked for an opinion about a blog lay-out, I almost always say: enlarge those photos. Most of the times, these folks use thumbnail-like pictures on their article pages, ‘because they have to have some visuals in their posts’. Please don’t. If you think of photos as a necessary evil, than just limit yourself to text. That’s better than lettings those poor thumbs drown in your sea of words.
Photo by Tiagø Ribeiro
If you do like pictures, my advice would be: only use photos to blow your reader away. Make those pics big, and make them beautiful.
Or, as my designer buddy Justus Bruns puts it: ,,kick-ass visuals, than your story.” He advices to look up Cargo Collective for inspiration.
An excellent resource for ‘kick-ass’ photos is Flickr. They have a huge collection of Creative Commons-licensed pics. Here’s a 5-step manual to use Flickr for stock photos in a proper way
How are you using visuals on your blog?
Iets als dit? :-)
http://fontanel.nl/special/vol.....ourtyfour/
http://fontanel.nl/special/21-bis-frank-dresme/
http://fontanel.nl/special/all.....-fontanel/
Incredibly cool, those specials with big visuals. Not that I didn’t expect anything less from Holland’s leading design blog :)
Hi Ernst-Jan I think I inspired you last Wednesday for this post ;-) thx for the tip. It really changed the look of my blog.
But looking at the former post, there is a lot to improve…
You most certainly did :) And I’ve noticed the changes, for the good!