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Creative Commons Waits For You: Treasure For Your Small Business |
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Homeworking -
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Written by Tom Aaron
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Friday, 26 June 2009 00:00 |
User friendliness is essential for small business websites
to attract more business. Guests will stay longer at user
friendly sites. Including photos is one way to make your
business user friendly. Although creating beautiful photos
requires a camera, skill, and time, there is another
option. Visit Creative Commons to find another answer for
the small business: flickr. You can also go directly to the
flickr home page to find photos for your site.
We searched flickr using the Creative Commons search, but
you can also go directly to the website. Regardless of
which search method you select, be sure to check the right
boxes so that you are searching for photos that you can use
at your business site. The Creative Commons search page has
two little boxes to check. If you are searching via flickr,
use their advanced search page and check the boxes at the
bottom of the page.
We were searching for Japanese food. The flickr page
provided us with 5,879 options and three ways to sort them.
We selected "most interesting." Although many of the most
interesting photos are completely irrelevant, we find this
is the best way to find the very best pictures. We found a
beautiful photo, Japanese cake by Kanko: a lovely pink cake
sitting on an illustrated plate with a wooden Japanese
lacquer fork.
Before using any photos from flickr, you should both check
the icons on the photo page and read the photographer's
profile page. If not, you may work with a flickr picture
only to discover later that the photographer has two
conflicting statements about the photo: use and don't use.
Double-checking first to avoid such a problem is far
easier. Flickr has many photos; avoiding any potential
trouble will reduce any future problems concerning the
photos.
Now that we have the picture, we decided to create a new
page at our website about Japanese cake. A new page will
provide more content for our guests, which encourages them
to visit us. A new page also provides more volume for the
search engines; hopefully this will improve our search
engine rankings.
We could not decide what to write on the page, and I was
put in charge of this. I knew that more would come to me if
I thought about how to use this photo. I decided to let the
photo bubble in my brain for a couple of days.
In the future, when I make the page, I will need to add "by
Kanko" to the page, providing a link to her at flickr. That
should satisfy all the requirements for using the photo. I
have located a special picture with limited output.
For improving your website, which moves you closer to the
top, we suggest that you try using flickr. You'll find a
tremendous variety of photos to enhance your site. This
works exceedingly well for us.
About the Author:
Aaron Language Services serves clients in Japan and around
the world, providing translation and writing services. We
also provide English language resources. If you are
interested in sushi, we recommend you visit our sushi page
at
http://www.aaronlanguage.com/english_sushi_page.htm
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