Website Graphics

First A Warning ! The big stock photo companies Getty Corbis et al are threatening to sue 1000s of small companies and even private individuals for unlicenced useage . We suggest in all cases that if you copy any graphics from any media source , even from so called "free websites", that you always check the origin , and read the small print on copright / legal and pay the licence fee (if any) or get written confirmation from the copyright owner for the useage, or you could end up with a bill / threat to sue . It is only recently that these large companies have decided to be so agressive , and many webmasters are saying they are acting over the top in demanding whjat looks like extortionate amounts (multiples of the actual price) , a simple cease and desist letter might be better for "first offender", small sites that have made a mistake or did not understand the small print. There is a very interesting article in the Sitepoint forum , and there are countless other threads on other webmaster forums talking about this.

About Our Graphics

Most logos we create are created with graphics editors from scratch , the rest are Royalty free , whereby we pay a one time licence fee via subscription to Animation Factory , a company owned by Jupiter Images . So if we are creating a site for a local brewery we would select perhaps the .gif file opposite , from Animation Factory , there's a library of over 35000 animations , and they also have tiled backgrounds as well as a plethorta of sitepoint templates. The good news is all the images are Royalty FREE . Please note: Although we are legally allowed to create pages with these graphics for our customers , the customer is not allowed to copy or use any of the graphics we supply , ie: the graphics cannot be used for any purpose than displaying on the website we supply.

We also use Xara Menu Maker for building the menu buttons / tabs etc where required .

...And various graphics editors for manipulating and optimising web graphics.

Where a client has their own photograph or images these can easily be added to their site , simply email them through to us . (Any images supplied are the customer's responsibilty with regard to intellectual property rights).

Premium Images

We rarely find the need , but if a client insists on high quality highest resolution stock photos then istockphoto are particularly good and considerably cheaper than Corbis or Getty, and the quality can be on a par. The other option is to get the digital camera out and start taking snaps , it doesn't cost a penny that way, and you can always sell them on to the stock photo companies!