{"id":83,"date":"2010-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-26T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T15:47:06","slug":"a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silkstream.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.html","title":{"rendered":"A picture is worth a thousand words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With regard to websites, it&rsquo;s tempting to try and satisfy each visitor by cramming your page with text, images, promotions and more. Resulting in a very &ldquo;noisy&rdquo; page. It&rsquo;s often difficult to understand what the website is about and thus visitors become confused and often leave. You have a very small amount of time to capture your visitor&rsquo;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>A great way (which is often underestimated) to convey both your message and keep visitors on your site is to use great images. By &ldquo;great&rdquo; I mean taking the time to photograph or source large, in-focus and detailed photographs. <\/p>\n<p>Photos taken on your mobile phone will not cut it! If you can&rsquo;t source quality product images from your suppliers I would recommend using the services of a commercial photographer who understands lighting, composition and getting the most from an image.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some &quot;before and after&quot; examples to illustrate my point:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"404\" src=\"\/media\/images\/blog\/before.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"439\" src=\"\/media\/images\/blog\/after.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"500\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/blog\/b1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"524\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/blog\/a1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" src=\"\/media\/images\/blog\/beforewheel.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"850\" src=\"\/media\/images\/blog\/afterwheel.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"286\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/blog\/ba1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"517\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/media\/images\/blog\/ba2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old adage &#8220;a picture is worth a thousand words&#8221; conveys the notion of simplifying complex things with the aid of visualisation. Our brains can process large amounts of information much faster when looking at images, as opposed to reading textural-based content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-design"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A picture is worth a thousand words - Silkstream<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silkstream.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A picture is worth a thousand words - Silkstream\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The old adage &quot;a picture is worth a thousand words&quot; conveys the notion of simplifying complex things with the aid of visualisation. 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