Sunday, 16 July 2017

How To Create A WordPress Child Theme For Divi

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The excitement of designing your very own website is un-paralleled and the sense of achievement is high…until you update your WordPress theme.

Next thing you know your design & layouts have changed or look considerably different to before.

So you perhaps start searching for answers and then you find out about these things called WordPress child themes!

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But your probably wondering:

What the heck is a child theme?

Well to put is simply, a child theme is core theme that inherits the styling & functionality of your original theme (parent theme).

Child themes are therefore recommended for customisation of your original theme.

Exactly why is it recommended?

Well…

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The core reasons for using a child theme are:

If you modify your original (parent) theme directly and it is then updated, your modifications may be lost. By using a child theme you will ensure that your modifications are preserved
Modifications to an original (parent) theme may break the code, rendering the site broken
Using a child theme can speed up design & development time. (We will go into more detail how further on)
Using a child theme is a great way to learn about WordPress design & development in particular customising the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)

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For new web designers, getting your head around using a child theme may seem daunting.

There's good news though!

Once you have created your first one and have it functioning as it should, it will easily become normal practise.

Our web design agency uses the Divi theme from Elegant Themes for every client website and our very first step is to upload our standard Divi Child Theme.

So what steps do you need to take for creating a child theme?

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As it turns out:

We have 3 different methods for you to choose.

For those using the Divi theme, you can choose from any of the following methods. Everyone else not using Divi can follow method #2 or method #3 and follow the recommended steps to suit the parent theme your using.

Ok so if you’re using Divi and you would like to upload a child theme the standard way but without having to produce the files, then follow this first method.

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1. Download Our Custom Divi Child Theme

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Our custom Divi child theme is simply a zip file which you will upload the same way as you would your original parent theme.

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It contains the required:

Functions.php file for linking the Divi child theme to your parent Divi theme
style.css file to add your own CSS for customising your website design
Screenshot.png which is an image for showing the child theme within the installed WordPress theme library

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Plus additionally:

Header.php file for adding any customisation to your website header elements
Login Editor so you can edit the WordPress Login page with a relevant logo & text

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When you download the zip file, you can simply upload that straight into your themes dashboard & activate it.

Upon activation, your website should look exactly the same.

You will notice the change in footer elements that should replicate your Site Title.

You now have the ability to add custom CSS to the style.css file inside of the child theme editor or via FTP.

To edit the login page, simply head to the Divi Theme Customiser ( Divi > Theme Customiser > Login Editor ) and select the login editor button.

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So that is a pretty straight forward method for installing & activating a Divi child theme that has options for customising not only the CSS styling, but also your Divi Header & Dashboard Login.

2. Using A Plugin

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If you’re not fussed on editing the Header & Footer of your site, then we suggest using this simple plugin Child Theme Configurator from the WordPress depository.

Best of all...

Uploading the plugin will quickly allow you to setup a Divi child theme.

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Child Theme Configurator is a fast and easy to use utility that allows you to analyse any theme for common problems, create a child theme and customise it beyond the options of the Customiser.

Designed for WordPress users who want to be able to customise child theme stylesheets directly, Child Theme Configurator lets you easily identify and override the exact CSS attributes you want to customise.

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3. Manually Creating Your Own (Full Tutorial)

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In this tutorial, I will be creating a child theme for the Divi theme. Of course the same process applies for any theme you’re working with. We just use Divi on 99% of our projects.

The steps are relatively easy and you will have a good understanding of how a child theme is structured to increase your web development knowledge.

The process will involve:

Creating a child theme folder
Create a style.css file with the relevant child theme info
Creating a functions.php file and adding the required code to en-queue the parent theme. In this instance Divi.
A screenshot.jpg file for displaying child theme logo.

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Alright so let’s dive in…

First of all anywhere on your desktop, create a new folder & name it “divi-child”

Step 1 done!

Now we need to create a style.css file

There are two ways we can go about this.

For users with experience using source code editors, we prefer to use a software program called Brackets.

As we build our projects using a Mac, we find Brackets works really well.

For those with zero experience using software programs such as Brackets, then I suggest using a standard TextEdit (Mac) or TextEditor (Windows).

All options will get the desired result.

Ok so with your code / text editor open, we need to create a style.css file.

Copy & paste the code below into the code / text editor.

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/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 Theme Name:   My Divi Child Theme
 Theme URI:    http://www.mysite.com
 Description:  A Divi Child Theme
 Author:       My Name
 Author URI:   http://www.mysite.com
 Template:     Divi
 Version:      1.0.0

------------------------------ ADDITIONAL CSS HERE ------------------------------*/

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Once pasted in…

Go ahead & change out the theme name and author information based on your details.

There is one important note to point out!!

The Template name must be the parent theme name. In this instance it will be remain “Divi”.

Ok so once you have those details changed, you can save as style.css

Move this file inside of the “divi-child” folder we created in step 1

Step 2 done!

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To en-queue the parent theme, we need to create a function.php file & add in a particular line of code.

So go ahead & open a new file inside of your code / text editor.

Copy & paste in the code below

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<?php
/**
 * @author Resilient Digital
 * @copyright 2017
 */
if (!defined('ABSPATH')) die();

function ds_ct_enqueue_parent() { wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' ); }

function ds_ct_loadjs() {
  wp_enqueue_script( 'ds-theme-script', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/ds-script.js',
        array( 'jquery' )
    );
}
?>

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Once you have done this, all you need to do is save as functions.php

Once saved, move this file inside of the divi-child folder as well.

Ok so that’s step 3 finished.

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Moving ahead now!

To show a logo or image of your child theme in the theme directory, we need to add a screenshot.jpg file preferably 800px wide by 600px high.

So have a logo or image created similar to our below using those dimensions and save as screenshot.jpg

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Once saved, also move this file inside of the divi-child folder.

And that is step 4 done.

Your Divi-Child folder should look like this:

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All that’s left to do is to compress the divi-child folder into a .zip file and upload into your themes directory within WordPress, then activate it.

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Compressing divi-child folder & uploading into WordPress.

So using a Mac, I simply Control + Click on the divi-child folder then click on compress.

The Mac then displays a divi-child.zip file

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With the relevant style.css file, functions.php file, screenshot.jpg file inside of the divi-child.zip file you now have a child theme ready to upload into WordPress just like any other parent theme.

So with a parent Divi theme installed & activated, go ahead and upload your Divi-Child.zip file.

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After installation is complete, activate the child theme and you now have a website running Divi as the framework using a Divi child theme for customisation purposes.

Conclusion

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So there you go... 3 ways to implement a child theme for your website.

Now in case you are wondering, Yes a child theme can be installed and activated on a live / exisiting website already in use.

You will just need to make a note of any customisation changes you have made to the parent theme (things like menu structure, fonts, custom CSS etc) so you can apply those to the child theme.

I also recommend installing a child theme on an exisiting website under a staging environment.

Depending on your host, setting up staging environments can be done within your Cpanel or you can use a plugin.

Elegant Themes has an in-depth tutorial on creating a WordPress staging site for development & testing.

Now I'd like to hear what you think:

Let me know what method your going to try.

Ready to create your own child theme files?

Or maybe you will opt into our own child theme download.

Either way, leave a comment below right now!

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How To Create A WordPress Child Theme For Divi See more on: https://www.resilientdigital.com.au/

Thursday, 13 July 2017

48 Awesome Free Stock Photo Sites For Commercial Use

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This is the most extensive list of free stock image sites.

We analysed hundreds of sites to better understand where you can get the best free images for websites or your next design project.

Specifically we looked at the resolution quality, uniqueness and authentication that drives emotion and engagement.

We found some really great sites…

And I’m sure you will find some hidden gems amongst them.

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Barn Images

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Redefining traditional stock imagery, Igor Trepeshchenok and Roman Drits are the creators of Barn Images.

Accomplished photographers, you will find high quality photography that’s unique and fresh with no image that’s a duplicate from standard stock photography found elsewhere.

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BucketListly

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A platform and community of travellers and adventures that are encourage to share their life stories to the world.

With a goal to inspire and motivate people to travel and live the life of their dreams, the platform provides a collection of over 5000 travel photos from all over the world.

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Burst

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Shopify’s new free stock photography resource offering all images completely royalty free, under the Creative Commons Zero licence.

The purpose of the site is to inspire and empower designers and bloggers to develop visually stunning websites and advertising campaigns.

There is a Business Idea’s section that inspire startup ecommerce businesses with case studies on trending niches to help with identifying popular products that are relatively easy to create or distribute via drop shipping platforms.

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Cupcake

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High quality and unique photography by Jonas Wimmerström (former Nilsson Lee).

His website offers beautiful images for use with commercial projects under the Creative Commons (CCO) license.

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Death To Stock

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Dave Sherry, founder of Death To Stock had a vision to provide a platform and build a community around visual content.

Death To Stock strives to help designers with their visual content needs by providing free, inspirational images and resources.

Collaborating with photographers and artists, the community delivers on inspiring photos, videos and creatives for users when developing their own campaigns, projects and designs.

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Epicantus

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Unique photography images made available for free to use by Daria.

As a visual and UX designer, Daria designs landing pages and web prototypes to test various business ideas and to collect feedback.

With that, photo’s made for these projects appear on his Tumblr page for personal and commercial use.

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Fancy Crave

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Looking for images that are authentic, emotionally driven and tell a story? Look no further than Fancy Crave.

Created by Igor Ovsyannykov, Fancy Crave is a free stock photo site that showcases images from his travels around Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Laos, Japan, Nepal and many other countries.

Everyday, Igor publishes two high resolution photos to help designers, students, bloggers and marketers wishing to convey a message with their visual content.

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FoodiesFeed

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For all you food loving people and bloggers alike, FoodiesFeed is a resource of unique high quality and naturally looking food photos that are completely free to download.

Created to eliminate the sterile and somewhat fake looking stock food photos, FoodiesFeed is all about providing resources & community to help designers and bloggers in the food niche source beautifully presented images.

With over 900,000 downloads to date, this site is sure to impress.

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Free Images

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Free Images is a source of high quality digital stock photography for use by all. Images from this site can be used in projects spanning websites, printed materials and anywhere in between.

Perfect for design teams in creatives, FreeImages is part of a network of free stock photography related resources.

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Free Nature Stock

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Unique photos can be hard to come by, however this site is yet another we have found that provides high quality images using professional gear.

Creator Adrian Pelletier personally captures all of the photos showcased and adds a new image daily. If your looking for unique photos of landscape, ocean and sky, then be sure to stop by Free Nature Stock.

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FreeRange

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Free Range Photos are produced directly by in-house photographers or they’re contributed by a growing community of creative & talented photographers.

A community platform that credits photographers with advertising revenue from clickable ads appearing next to their submission.

With categories including animals, architecture, interiors, health through to military, sports and transportation you are bound to find an image to fit into your design specs.

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Getrefe

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Many people will make purchase decisions based on their emotions, and Getrefe images will help to provide the positive emotions that lead them to taking action.

Their mission is quite simple. ”We are here to help organisations and individuals bring ideas to life in a memorable way.

We provide high-quality imagery of people interacting with technology for your projects.”

For images that portray emotion and help to engage your audience, then Getrefe may just have the image for you.

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Good Free Photos

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Goof Free Photos is a web gallery of thousands of high quality and unique free public domain photos.

You can find travel photos, images of animals, plants and objects. Travel photos are categorises by locations and others are by species and types.

All photos are copyright free and royalty free.

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Gratisography

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Free high resolution images perfect for personal and commercial projects.

Fresh new photos are added weekly. Gratisography is a site by Ryan McGuire and all photos are taken by him.

Ryan is a visual creator and designer that loves taking pictures and where possible tries to add humour into his creative work.

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IM Free

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A curated collection of free web design images and resources, IM Free is all about making website building a simple and enjoyable experience.

With design templates, images and icons the collection is high quality easing the confusion and complications of finding great design elements for your next creative project.

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ISO Republic

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ISO Republic is a source of free stock photos for creative professionals.

Founded in 2014 by Tom Eversley, a designer and photographer himself, the site now boasts over 1500 free images with more consistently added on a daily basis.

Web designers, bloggers and marketing teams all use the high resolution images that are free for use on your personal and commercial creative designs.

Photographers can also now contribute images to their gallery.

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Jay Mantri

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“Designer by day and burger monster by night”, Jay Mantri from Santa Monica, California captures stunning photos which as stated by Dave Neal have a serene and beautiful approach capturing the moment with true care and emotion.

One of the things Jay found in the design world was great photography that could be used on a clients project and so it led him to start a little project for fun where he would upload photos every week and let designers use them as much as they want.

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Kaboompicks

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While Kaboompicks is "one woman show", creator Karolina says “there is no chance I could have done all this without a little help from my friends.”

With over 80.000 people from 209 countries visiting Kaboompics, a royalty-free service for stock images.

Kaboompics is rated as one of the most popular sources of free images for lifestyle, interior design and specialised bloggers.

To this day the site has gathered over 6 million impressions, and the photos have been downloaded over 4 million times.

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Libreshot

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Libreshot is a project by Martin Vorel. All the photos found on his site are original and natural looking.

Licensed with a CC0 – public domain, Martins images are perfect for web design, business and marketing material through to news articles and flyers.

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Life Of Pix

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“An awesome community of photographers is here to share with you their best shots.”

Everyday you can discover a fine selection with a featured section of photographer of the week. New photographers are added every week and all images are donated to the public domain.

Every week a photographer is elected as the Life Of Pix photographer of the week by their team. 10 photographers are then highlighted on the Life Of Pix social media networks and website.

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Little Visuals

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Perhaps one of sadness as this site was a project created by Nic Jackson.

Nic with a zest for life suddenly passed away in 2013, though his family still maintain Little Visuals.

With this in mind Nic’s family would like to ask when you view his site and/or download the images if you would consider a small donation towards the Hand on Heart Charity. A link can be found on the Little Visuals website.

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Magdeleine

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Magdeleine.co is a curated blog that features the best hand-picked free high-quality stock photography for your inspiration.

Images sourced from photographers, Magdeleine showcases a unique featured image daily.

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MMT Stock

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Jeffery Betts, founder of MMT Stock launched this site in 2014 to share his love of photography to the world.

Over the years Jeffery has taken countless photos and wanted to post some of them to use for free and give back to the online community.

The creative span across many categories, including nature, city scenes, workspaces, and macro photography. Images from his site can be freely downloaded, used, and redistributed for both personal and commercial purposes.

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MorgueFile

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Morguefile is a free photo archive for creatives, by creatives. Founded by Michael Connors in the 1996, the site was created to serve as a free image exchange for creative professionals and teachers to use in their design projects.

This same mission remains true today. “We are a community-based free photo site, and all photos found in the Morguefile archive are free for you to download and re-use in your work, be it commercial or not.

The photos have been contributed by a wide range of creatives from around the world, ranging from amateur photo hobbyists to professionals.”

Designers and creative are encouraged to upload images that they have taken in return of favour for downloading the images from this site.

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Moveast

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This is a journey of a Portuguese guy moving that decided that every photo should be used for free. Help yourselves and use them wherever you want (CC0).

Creator of Moveast João Pacheco decided he wanted a place to keep track of his experiences/travels and also to encourage/inspire people to travel and to move.

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My Stock Photos

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A curated list of beautiful free stock photos made by the team that can be used for personal or commercial design projects.

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Negative Space

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Beautiful, free high resolution photos with no restrictions. Negative Space is about creating communities.

A platform building a community of photographers who want to share their work.

It’s also a place where a community of online visitors, designers and creatives can use their beautiful, free high-resolution images without any restrictions.

Each of the high-quality photographs you find has been taken by a photographer from the Negative Space community. There is something for everybody, so be sure to check out their portfolio.

Categories include Abstract, Animals, Architecture, Business, Black & White, Food, Landscapes, Nature, People, Sport, Street, Technology, Transport, and Work.

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New Old Stock

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Vintage photos from the public archives. All images are free of known copyright restrictions.

Timeless photography recapturing history.

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Pexels

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Empowering Creators. Pexels provides free stock photos to help millions of design creators all over the world to easily create stunning digital products and designs.

Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos under the CC0 license.

The site is easy to navigate and all images are tagged and easy to discover. There are currently over 30,000 free stock images and every month at least 3,000 new high resolution images are added.

Pexels is just about our first port of call for every one of our own in house web design projects.

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Photo Pin

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Free photos for bloggers and creatives! PhotoPin helps bloggers find photos for their blog by using their search function to find topic related photos.

PhotoPin uses the Flickr API to search for creative Commons photos to use on any blog project.

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Photo Stock Editor

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Creator of Photo Stock Editor, Javier Palmieri is a web designer who loves to take photos. Free high-resolution images for use how you like. New images are added weekly.

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Photocollections

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Photographer Vadim Goncharov began Photocollections to provide and inspire designers with unique high quality images. Categories include animals, industrial, landscapes, nature, people, transportation

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Picjumbo

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Picjumbo is a free stock photo site created by designer & photographer Viktor Hanacek.

Quite astoundingly he began this project when regular stock photo sites would not take his photos due to lack of quality. Now 4 years later more than 5 million images have been downloaded from his site.

With a growing premium membership base of over 2000 people, Picjumbo images are at the top our own go to sources for high quality images.

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Picography

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Picography.co allows people to use any of the photos on the website for whatever they want, free of charge, no catches.

With over 100,000 visitors per month, the site is serving images that are unique from anywhere else.

Featured in many top marketing & business articles like Forbes & Life Hack, Picography is in our top 5 resources for high quality & unique images.

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Pixabay

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Almost 7 years ago, Pixabay was started as an image source for the authors of Wizzley.com and Pagewizz.com – two international micro blogging platforms.

Fast forward to today and there are over half million photos, vector graphics, art illustrations and videos. Latest developments from Pixabay this year include their Mobile App.

Featuring fast search, swipe through search results, direct download and much more. If we had to choose our top free stock image site…Pixabay would be it.

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Public Domain Archive

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Vintage and modern public domain images. Everything you need for creative projects with a large variety of vintage images added frequently.

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Raumrot

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Raumrot is a free commercial use image resource platform with stunning lifestyle imagery for modern creatives.

With over 1000 photos to chose from sectors including business, technic, transport through to xmas, muscle cars and travel.

Please note: most Raumrot images require author attribution with a link back to the original author.

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ShotStash

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A small collection of frees tock photos for all projects. New photos are added daily. No royalties, no fees, no worries.

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Skitterphoto

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Skitterphoto was launched in 2014 by amateur photographers Rudy and Peter from the Netherlands.

They felt it was hard to find high quality images and thought why not publish our own collection. Soon after they witnessed their own photos being used across the globe which led to more motivation to make better photos.

Now photographers from all over can upload their own images to the revamped site.

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Snapwire Snaps

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7 free beautiful photos every 7 days. A collection of unique photos from over 200,000 of the worlds most talented photographers.

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SpaceX

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SpaceX is a private company founded in 2002 by CEO and Lead Designer Elon Musk. SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

The website has hundreds of stunning space & rocket themed images for download.

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Splitshire

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Splitshire came about with the simple aim of giving life to photographs that otherwise would have gone into oblivion. There mission is to help you be awesome out there with great content.

Across the course of ten years taking unique high quality photography, Daniel Nanescuhese accumulated many thousands of images that were just gathering digital dust.

Nowadays these images are being used across many high authority sites like Huffington Post, CNN and popular magazines across the world.

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Startup Stock Photos

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Free tech photos for startups, bloggers, publishers and creatives. The creators of Startup Stock Photos hopes the project continues to be helpful, and serve as a positive representation of the world of tech today.

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StockSnap

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StockSnap credits themselves as being the best place on the internet to find beautiful free stock photos.

The site is a curation of the highest quality and highest resolution images from around the web.

Select photographers from their own network have photos featured providing an high quality repository of beautiful stock photography.

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Stokpic

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Just over a year ago, Ed Gregory decided to start giving away his photos fro free.

As a photographer who takes hundreds perhaps thousands of photos, many of which would go unnoticed. A site that began as a little weekend project soon started to generate a lot of interest and appreciation from followers.

Ed now photographs specifically for Stokpic to ensure high quality photos for his subscribers.

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The Pic Pac

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The Pic Pac is a free stock image website with a little twist. Mat Jones set out to establish the site in a way that you can download a theme of images (Pac) and pay what you want.

So in essence you can pay nothing (or pay whatever you want). Every Monday a new “Pac” of images is released for download.

A free pic will be chosen and released for free from Tuesday through Sunday. Pic Pac offers many variations of travel images that are unique and exceptionally high quality.

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Unsplash

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Arguably the most popular free stock image site with over 200,000 beautiful free photos gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

With a huge library of images and hundreds being added daily, there is a good chance you will find a unique, emotionally driven images for your next design project.

Unsplash images have been used in everything from Apple keynotes to WordPress’s default theme.

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Visual Hunt

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Arguably the most popular free stock image site with over 200,000 beautiful free photos gifted by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

With a huge library of images and hundreds being added daily, there is a good chance you will find a unique, emotionally driven images for your next design project.

Unsplash images have been used in everything from Apple keynotes to WordPress’s default theme.

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One More Additional Site

Whilst not free, we think this site provides the best value for money with unique & authentic images.

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Tookapic

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Tookapic was created to help anyone develop a habit of daily photo taking in a fun and addictive way.

An online community for people who want to capture their everyday life and improve their photography.

Their stock photos are unique, authentic and engaging taken by everyday people.

They have a monthly plan that we find to be very valuable considering the high quality and uniqueness.

Conclusion

Finding images that will resonate with your target audience is important for engagement, and I think this list will help you to find that perfect image for your next web design or creative project.

Whilst all of these sites are currently offering public domain images free of charge, I would just make sure you check every time you download.

Now I'd like to hear from you!

Which free image site do you prefer?

Or maybe you have a favourite not on this list!

Either way, leave a quick comment below straight away.

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This following post 48 Awesome Free Stock Photo Sites For Commercial Use was first viewed on Jason Upton Resilient Digital

Thursday, 18 May 2017

How To Create Share Worthy Content | Tips From 46 Experts

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Content marketing is an evergreen strategy that can drive traffic & leads to any business for many years after it's published.

There's just one thing to remember though.

...Content Promotion!

Content needs to be attractive to your audience.

It also needs to be share worthy on social media, whilst also a resource many bloggers would consider linking to.

After all, search engine rankings are driven by social interaction and links.

So how exactly can small businesses go about creating share worthy content!

...Venngage engaged over 140 influencers in the online marketing space to share some of their best tactics for creating high quality, share worthy content.

One of the highly acclaimed experts Neil Petal recommended "Research what all of your competitors are creating and one up them. Make your content more detailed, more actionable, and wrap it up with a pretty design."

Barry Feldman, Founder of Feldman Creative outlines "My formula's a two parter. One, make content that solves a real problem you know potential customers grapple with. And two, make the experience of consuming that content fun."

Learn what each expert had to say with this "Creating Addictive Content" Infographic from Venngage.

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Monday, 16 January 2017

How to Setup Amazon S3 Bucket Hosting with GoDaddy Domain

Watch on YouTube here: How to Setup Amazon S3 Bucket Hosting with GoDaddy Domain
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Friday, 16 December 2016

Search Engine Optimisation Services In Melbourne

Melbourne SEO Services

What does SEO mean?

SEO stands for “search engine optimisation.” It is the process a digital marketing agency will perform in order of getting traffic from the “free,” “organic,” “editorial” or “natural” search results on search engines...Google, Bing & Yahoo.

So if we think of search engines like Google, Bing & Yahoo as libraries, then we can grasp the fundamentals of the process.

At random intervals, these search engines will scan or crawl as many websites on the internet as possible.

Each time they do so, they are retrieving information and data about your website, and the content that exists within.

Content includes Title Tags, Meta Descriptions, Heading Tags, actual text, images, videos, etc

All of this content put together with your website domain, structure and layout provides the search engines with a large snapshot of what information is available on each individual page.

Each page of your website is then ranked accordingly against every possible search term variation relevant to the page.

Now when someone searches for a query

...The search engines will locate the best possible matched page and list them in order of ranking.

The web page that is determined to be providing the best possible information relevant to the search query will be listed at the top, and then so on.

So why is there a need for SEO?

Well as a business owner you are far more focused on running your business, and performing the tasks that you specialise in.

And perhaps you wouldn't be matching your website content to the search queries that people are using to find relevant content.

So this is where a Melbourne SEO agency comes into play.

They specialise in making sure your website is technically sound, and has all the important elements in place, so when the search engines crawl your pages they will rank them as high as possible.

Now all of this seems pretty simple.

...But there are more that 200 ranking factors in Google Algorithm alone.

Making sure your website is setup to best represent these 200 ranking factors can be time consuming.

We have systems in place to get these tasks done in a timely manner.

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Search Engine Optimisation Services In Melbourne is republished from Resilient Digital SEO Blog

Saturday, 26 November 2016

Google’s Mobile First Index | 3 Powerful Mobile Search Optimisation Tips For Fast Results

Making the switch to mobile optimised content as priority.

Knowing your business is at the top of Google is great.

Knowing your business is at the top of Google on mobile search results is absolutely fantastic.

Why?

…because just recently Google has released a Mobile-first indexing.

And today this post I’m going to share our latest strategies for making sure Google loves your site on mobile devices.

But first,

What does Google's Mobile-First Index exactly mean.

Well simply put, Google will begin to look at your websites mobile content as priority over desktop when it comes to ranking individual pages.

Given Australians are spending in excess of 500 million hours per year, it was only inevitable that Google would roll out an algorithm to satisfy the needs of their users.

3 powerful mobile search optimisation tips for fast results that you can have applied now:

1. Transform your website to be mobile responsive.

Look:

Most people use mobile devices for searching the internet.

Give visitors to your site the best user experience with a website that scales its design to their screen size.

You will keep visitors on your site longer.

And moving forward, Google will reward you with higher rankings.

Do you see how powerful this one strategy is?

Follow this link to test if your site is mobile responsive

Google mobile responsive test tool

Chances are your site will come back with errors!!

So what does all this mean?

… Well Google is looking for mobile device user friendly websites.

3 essential elements to creating a user friendly website for mobile devices:

Design for fingertip control – There’s nothing more annoying than accidentally pressing the wrong link or button or making several attempts at clinking a link.

People using mobiles are scrolling and clicking links / buttons with finger tips.

So make sure your text & button elements are easy to navigate with fingertip precision

Pop-ups are converting less & less as the days go by, and lead gen pop-ups on mobile are just simply frustrating.

Have your site coded to remove disable pop-ups on mobile devices.

You won’t notice the drop off with subscribers, and your site visitors will appreciate it.

Remove all Flash elements from your design.

Many mobile users cannot view Flash elements. iPad and iPhone do not support Flash.

You could politely ask your site visitors to install some off the many apps available to enable viewing of Flash videos, games etc.

…Or you could just replace all Flash elements with HTML5.

This still has some limiting functions, so using it in conjunction with CSS styling or JavaScript will provide user friendly viewing on mobile.

Easy work around for WordPress users

The Jetpack plugin will be compatible for 9 out of 10 WordPress themes, so search for and install Jetpack.

Once you have Jetpack installed and setup (configuration is relatively straight forward), go back and re-test your mobile responsive site with the Googles test tool.

Green light means good to go.

Other CMS systems will require some collaboration with your web designer.

Me personally, I would seek an upgrade from them and provide content on this issue as evidence they should be providing you an up-to-date product.

No luck there, you may be stuck with having to acquire the services of a web design company to design & develop you a mobile responsive website.

2. Apply site configurations consistent across desktop viewing and mobile viewing for your primary content.

Where configurations differ, it would be wise to make the necessary changes to your site.

You can determine this by using the Google Structured Data Testing Tool.

3 key areas you may need to consider are:

Using meta name=”viewport” tag – This will tell the web browser how to adjust your content and website design elements.

To send a signal to browsers that your website can & will adapt to all devices, simply have a meta tag added to the head of your website:

Responsive Images – Use relative images to prevent them from inadvertently exceed the limits of the mobile browser container.

Use CSS code in your style-sheet to set image and other media content width to a maximum of 100%

Add CSS code:

Img, embed, object, video {

max-width: 100%;

}

Verify the consistency of your website structured mark-up across both desktop and mobile browsers using the Structured Data Testing Tool.

3. Confirm Google-bot can see your mobile and access your mobile version.

Easy to do

Simply run the robots.txt test tool to determine whether your robots.txt file blocks Googles web crawlers from specific URL’s or mobile configurations.

Log into your Google Account
Open robots.txt tester and type in the URL of your site
Select the user agent (Googlebot)
Click test and analyse the results

Make the necessary changes to your robots.txt file and re-test if required.

Conclusion

So there you have it.

3 elements that need to be optimised for mobile search.

…And more so for your customers.

Whilst Google is making huge shifts towards mobile indexing, the outlook is for a better user experience.

Site owners that have taken the time to keep up to speed with industry news.

…Or perhaps have an agency that provides up to date services.

The end result will be Google providing search results with full responsive websites for mobile users.

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TheGoogle’s Mobile First Index | 3 Powerful Mobile Search Optimisation Tips For Fast Results was originally published to Resilient Digital

Tuesday, 26 July 2016

Quality Citations For Local SEO | Expert Citation Survey

The importance of quality citations for local seo

A recent survey amongst industry experts suggests most agree that quality citations plays a large role in generating rankings for local seo.

Back in April, BrightLocal released their Expert Local Citation Survey 2016. With the help of 21 local seo experts, they have discovered how relevant citations really are in 2016, the importance for local businesses and the current best practices for building citations and eliminating errors.

So before we take a look at some of the results from the survey, let’s go way back and look at why citations are required to begin with.

Released on July 24, 2014 the Google local search algorithm update was dubbed the “Google Pigeon” by Search Engine Land for future reference. The purpose of this algorithm is to provide a more robust, relevant and accurate local search result.

Google has stated the new local search algorithm ties deeper into their web search capabilities, including the hundreds of ranking factors they use.

And so now, industry experts believe

External Location Signals make up 13.6% of the overall ranking factors which include IYP/aggregator NAP consistency, citation volume etc.

The citations that make up these external location signals define your business name and address on other webpages- even when there is no link back to your site. Simply put, other websites like Yellow pages or local business chambers that contain your business Name, Address and Phone (NAP) details is a key component of the local ranking algorithm for Google.

And this is where Pigeon comes into play.

To improve the quality of its local search results, Google is relying on factors such as location and distance to provide better results to the search user.

Searching Google and searching Maps has before the update provided very different results to users, and now since the update, the algorithm connects web search and map search in a far more cohesive way.

Key Takeaways From BrightLocal’s Expert Citation Survey 2106.

So how relevant are citations anyway?

Well according to the panel;

90% of them say accurate citations are critical or very important to local search rankings.
86% say quality of those citations is more important than the quantity.

“Having accurate citations for a business is par for the course. Regardless if a brand has 10 or 10,000 locations, the local listings need to be accurate and monitored ongoing for discrepancies, ensuring users are able to successfully contact and visit the business”. – Nick Neels, Location3

Year on year there has been a significant shift towards building quality citations. By Quality, that means citations built on sites that are highly relevant to your business and/or have a high domain authority. Examples of such sites will be Yelp and Foursquare.

“Look at your competitors who are doing the least work with citations and yet getting great results. Try to get the same citations they have because they are doing the least amount of work and getting the best results as opposed to looking at the competitor who has 100’s of citations. I bet the competitor who has fewer has the ‘right’ citations. Remember it’s not the quantity of citations that wins, but the quality of those citations.” – Matthew Hunt, Powered By Search.

When asked “Are citations more or less important now than 12 months ago?” the responses were:

10% believe citations are more important
19% believe citations are less important
71% believe they have similar importance

So from this BrightLocal has analysed a steady decline in the perceived importance of citations, and has put this down to Google’s investment in building up its own local data set to a point where it can trust its own data more & more.

Where Google is required to confirm the data it holds, they look to specific high authoritative sites like Yelp, Yellow Pages & Foursquare, whilst paying less attention to the data held on small low authoritative (low quality) sites.

So I guess we can look at this as Google is becoming increasingly better at determining the relevance of your citations and that spamming the web with tonnes of citations will most likely hurt your local rankings.

For the purpose of achieving local map rankings for our clients, the approach we now use is to determine what competitor is doing the best job with the least amount of citations, then we determine what they are and go after those first.

“My opinion on citations hasn’t changed for the past few years. They are important, but they are only a small piece of the puzzle and I think the local community focuses too much on them. Get the Aggregators right and directories that bring your business and rank on industry search phrases and spend the rest of your time elsewhere… probably link building” – Mike Ramsey, Nifty Marketing

What sites offer the best authority for structured citations?

Key Findings:

33% say that Niche/Industry Directories have greatest authority (vs 32% in 2015)
19% say Local Directories have greatest authority (vs 9% in 2015)
24% say that all types of sites carry the same authority (vs 9% in 2015)

Structured citations are submissions of your business listing with a clearly defined presentation of your NAP details. These sites will use schema mark-up to allow the search engines to accurately determine the data.

Whilst Niche / Industry Directories offer the greatest authority for structured citations, the rating for Local Directories has jumped up since 2015.

Click here to find out more stats from BrightLocal’s Expert Local Citation Survey 2016.

To conclude, my thoughts are just like building backlinks for domain authority, your much better off analysing your top online competitors in your market, identifying the top authoritative citations and start by replicating those. Take the guess work out and leverage what others are using to win the game of local SEO.

Quality Citations For Local SEO | Expert Citation Survey was first published to http://resilientdigital.com.au