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 Choosing the perfect image for a website that does not have a visual theme can sometimes be an overwhelming task!

What would be best to use? An Illustration or a picturesque landscape?   How do you know it will say the right thing to your audience?

Imagery does more than just jazz up a website. Photos reveal a website’s attitude to its users. A Doctor and Barber both take pride in their trade, but their approach to doing business, will be indeed very different.

Think Practical

Getting started is easy: Get rid of photos that don't  work for technical reasons.   Throw away those vertical images you were considering if your website template calls for a horizontal.

1. Shape
   What shape do you need to fill? Landscapes images work best in horizontal spaces. Portraits work well vertically. Large spaces can accommodate wide-angle and macro shots.
   
2. Tone
   Do the colors and tone in the image match the website’s theme?  Does it match your firms colors?
3. Focus
   Is the photo blurry? A blurry background is ok if the foreground elements are in focus. But unless the composition is deliberately fuzzy, avoid it if it isn’t sharp.

Brandstockphoto.com is a good place to help you get started.   They make premium tailor made photos for businesses with an embedded sign of your brand.

Use this code for a $10 discount @ Brandstockphoto.com -  vB212

The Jigsy development team is out with another release for our builder and tools, this time including the following bug fixes, enhancements and feature requests:

• Captchas added to the form component! Enabling this can help you fight spam received through this component.

• Added list view to file manager - view your uploaded files in list form instead of thumbnails!

• New Github component!

• Added page redirects - set a page location and where that page should redirect to! Perfect for typoed page names or old page names that have been deleted.

• Added ability to set a URL in facebook like component.

We are also happy to announce that Jigsy.com have been awarded and recognized as “Best Web Tool” provider by Web Hosting Search, A leading company in providing Web Hosting reviews and here are the exact words from them. “Jigsy.com has been awarded and recommended as a best web tool provider by WebHostingSearch.com who provides the best reviews for some of the web hosting providers on the internet.

Keep an eye on this blog and our releases page as usual for news on upcoming features!