Free Stock Photos for Web Designers

[dhester]

Hello Everyone,

I just wanted to submit my website as a Webmaster Resource. I offer hi-res stock photos. Completely free. No registration. No pop-ups or pop-unders. The only ads I run are Google AdSense text ads to help cover my hosting expense. Right now I have 1200+ images. Sizes range from 1280x960 to 3072x2048. I hope you will consider adding the site to StatCounter's resource page.

Here's the link:
http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com

P.S.-- You'll see a link at the bottom of my home page for my StatCounter site statistics. Love your product! :D

Thanks,
Darren Hester
Pixel Perfect Digital

[webado]

Very nice and thank you for allowing your pictures to be downloaded. I hope you are protecting against hotlinking though.

[webmoriar]

At 6:15 CST I tried to access your site and it did not load, is your host down?

[dhester]

Sorry about that Stephen. I was working on a few things and had the site down temporarily. You can try now. Everything is back online :D

[webmoriar]

Cool very nice site. :)

[notsure]

Thats a great site dhester

Just read webmoriars' post and it got me thinking:

Does anyone know of a way of preventing pages online from being viewed when you work on a site? At the moment i just put up a temporary index site, but that doesn't stop direct links into other pages?

[webado]

I think any trick you'd use to redirect or otherwise block access would result in yourself not being able to test your site online either.

A better practise would be to create a subdomain (or at least a subdirectory from root) where you'd upload and test the pages you're working on. This where it's important to use careful addressing on your pages so as to make all this transparent.

[notsure]

Thats a good point chrisooc, i wouldn't want to block myself access*. Although to be honest i often upload then disconect and go on broadband to check. This is because i can only upload through a paid dial-up service (what a pain). I use freeola, but they are good or eveything else.

'addressing on your pages' mmm? im not very good at that, you learn the hard way!


*bit of a bad topic this! i accidently changed the properties (CHMOD?) of a folder and blocked complete access to this, i cant even delete it!

[webado]

*bit of a bad topic this! i accidently changed the properties (CHMOD?) of a folder and blocked complete access to this, i cant even delete it!

Ouch! This is a no-no!

If you still have access to the higher level directory where your now useless inaccessible subdirectory is located, you should be able to CHMOD it back to full access. I am not sure how this is done through FTP, but in the control panel (Cpanel) available through my web hosting service you have a function for it in conjunction with setting of access rights to a file or folder. You should look at the CHMOD value for a folder you can access and use the same value for the blocked one.

Good luck, I hope this works as I've never actually tried it myself :lol:

[notsure]

when im feeling brave ill give it a try! Fortunately there isn't much in there and it sits quieltly along side the main website.

Thanks for the help chrisooc

[webmoriar]

I know when I was working on the new version of my site I just had a simple /v2 subdirectory. Once I had it ready to swap with the old version I just deleted the entire old site late at night and uploaded the new site in about 5 minutes so there was minimal downtime. The main thing with a different directory is making sure you change all the links to the other pages and make sure the image links are right.

[notsure]

That sounds that like good organisation. I wish that when i had first started running the site, i had thought more about the page/folder structure. I find that now i really want to move things around more and rename files. The problem with this is the spiders have links to those pages. The bad thing with my service provider is i cannot customize the 404 page. :(

[webado]

Well, your subdirectory can have the same exact structure as your entire current web site (at least the public portion accessible from your domain name url). If your web pages are written carefully you don't need to move anything anywhere else. Basically "written carefully" here simply means not giving full url's for your links within your own site, but rather relative url's. This way when you copy the entire site to the new subdirectory it will really all be transparent.

Of course the assumption is that you have enough space on your web site to duplicate everything. Otherwise you have to manage your tests piecemeal, very judiciously.

[notsure]

Fortunately I use dreamweaver so it makes all the relative pages to the homepage. I created a site for a friend and tested it on another domain (without robots.txt), then moved it to its proper place. With my site I was just too impatient to get it online and messed it up, stupid really :)

[webado]

Oh, well, it can always be fixed with a bit of extra work.

Actually there is an excellent tool for figuring out bronken links: XENU Link Sleuth from http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html.

This is an easy to use program that you donwload free of charge. It can check all the links (including missing images) starting on a web page either on your own pc or on a web site url. It will spit out any inaccessible links and then it's just a matter of fixing those.

[notsure]

thanks for that ill give it a go

sorry you left a dot on the end, here it is agian

http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

:D

[webado]

LOL, that was my end of sentence period that somehow got tacked on to the end of the link. There seems to be a little problem with the automatic BBCode geenerated by the phpBB forum software when it recognizes a url, and this includes such a dot as well :D

I shall correct my post right away.

[WBruce]

I agree that this is a great site, and i will make use of the photos from time to time. I notice that someone likes Australian Shepherds.