http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/design-development/archive/tags/photos/default.aspxTags: photosenCommunityServer 2008 SP2 (Build: 31104.93)http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/design-development/archive/2012/02/28/foter-com.aspxTue, 28 Feb 2012 15:31:00 GMT1e469e21-c924-44fa-a132-47b5d0a8ad47:19089Michael Garrity0http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/design-development/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=19089http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/design-development/archive/2012/02/28/foter-com.aspx#comments<hr /> <p><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/images/blog/creative-commons-drawing.jpg" style="float:left;margin:10px;" height="75" width="75" alt="" /><b>Picture this: You&#39;re a blogger, online journalist or Web developer in dire need of a great photo to really jazz up your latest piece of content or Web page. But finding the right one with access permissions is difficult and, depending on how Web-savvy you are, getting it uploaded to your site can be even harder.</b></p> <p>Thankfully, we have <a target="_blank" href="http://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons</a>, an organization dedicated to helping build a community of users to share content, usually photos and images, amongst one another. And now there is also <a target="_blank" href="http://foter.com/">Foter.com</a>, a site that hosts more than 190 million Creative Commons images and provides them to content websites with fast and free access.</p> <p>Users can find photos by using the site&#39;s search feature to look for specific tags or keywords, or by browsing their selection of categories, which includes everything from art and food to landscapes and music.</p> <p>While the presence of hundreds of millions of Creative Commons-licensed images makes Foter.com an incredibly useful resource for Web developers and content publishers, the service&#39;s real selling point is its easy one-click insertion intentionally designed for convenience. After finding the perfect picture, users can re-size and position the image to best fit their Web page, and then they simply have to grab the image&#39;s embed code and paste it onto the site. </p> <p>Images are also available for download. </p> <p>Foter even has a WordPress plugin that helps developers utilize this stockpile of images in the creation of their sites and promotes the exact same functionality as Foter.com.&nbsp; </p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/aggbug.aspx?PostID=19089" width="1" height="1">web designfoterfoter.comimagescreative commonsphotosdesign and development digest week 9 2012