One of my favorite places to look for stock photos is www.iStockPhoto.com. It’s one of my favorite places to go when I want to find a fun image for a blog post, or a set of images, like I used to set the “place” at Mom’s Online Retreat. The pictures aren’t free, and purchase price depends on the size of the image you want – but for my needs I can purchase 10 images for $14.

You can get a lot of uses out of one image though with a little photo editing. Here’s a good example, my latest, favorite image…

has already been turned into this…

I love this because I can get so many uses out of this one image – adding text for my Coordinator Challenges that will be starting at Mom’s Online Retreat, or maybe as a “Specials’ board to post on the front page to draw visitor’s to The Shoppes.

So, consider using images in your blog posts and websites. Gives the reader something more to look at than just ads, and can really aid in creating a nice visual for your visitor. What a way to spice up your pages.

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I found I needed this knowledge from the get go with my TLC Consultant website because I am able to customize the top part of it. When I first started, I just had the most general of text there… “Welcome to my website” – no images, or links – very generic, and frankly kind of bland. I used the HTML Editor the company suggested and thought it was cool that I could create the page in Word, copy the text into it, and with a click of a button it transformed my text into html code for me to insert into my webpage template. But when it came time to modify it…I was lost!

Fast forward to my first official website, made from scratch, Mom’s Online Retreat. It was one thing for me to use the html editor for my consultant site, but I found that it just wasn’t practical for me to use it to build my website – thus I needed some resources. I had purchased The Direct Sales Success Kit earlier, so my first guide was the bonus that comes with it, the “Step by Step Guide to Starting Your First Website”. Kara gives great instruction for using NoteTab Lite, which was a free download from http://www.notetab.com. Gotta love the free downloads, and it’s all I’ve ever needed. Well, that and some help from HTMLgoodies.com, which is a great resource to have for html tricks, and tutorials.

My knowledge of HTML is nowhere near expert status, but at least if there is a problem with the HTML Editor in WordPress (and I’ve experienced them before) or when I want to leave a website link somewhere – I know the work-around.  And that is always a good thing!

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