More website, sigh.

January 15, 2010 8:43 PM

More marvellous work today, well, that intermingled with trying to find a contact lens specialist optician for Phil, but the closest I can manage is Birmingham. I think I might put a call into our local one to see if he has any advice.

So, whilst not researching eye topics and scaring myself silly (google images can be an eye opener, no, really quite literally!) I also get on with some more of our company website design. I've done the home page, but what is now required is how the internal pages will operate as they need some kind of sub navigation incorporating into them. It took me quite a while to figure out what that should be and how it should look, but I'm pretty happy with the result.

What I'm not happy with is the fact the istockphoto are charging ridiculous prices for their stock photography, in particular vector graphics. I would say on average the vector files are between 10 and 15 credits, and on istock's pay as you go scheme this equates to about £1 a credit. So an image file will cost you around £10-15. Ridiculous! You might say I should change to their subscription scheme, but their "daily" credit allowance just doesn't make sense for me financially. I think I may have to look else where for my stock photography and imagery. One thing is for sure though, it's forced me to improve my photoshop skills no end, which is a boom, because when you're pretty close to the bone on charges for projects if you can save money, all the more better for your pocket.