Introduction
Let’s face it: start-up businesses often don’t have the budget to spend money on expensive photography shoots. Sure, they may do this later when the bucks start rolling in, but they often want to get a website up and running for now.
This means that web designers are often tasked with finding the right stock photos. Adobe Stock Photos is a brilliant site for really high-quality stock photos that are not free.
We have used these on most websites we build, yet they are not offered for free.
Some of the websites we recommend below, however, are offered for free. So, if you’re about to design your own website or perhaps you hired a web design agency, but they want you to pick out some photos for your new company website, well, these websites are brilliant for getting stock photos.
Website: https://unsplash.com/
So, a viral stock photo website is Unsplash; it is brilliant. It has been around for a long time, since 2013. Unsplash originally started as a Tumblr blog, but now it’s a website that web designers all around the globe switch to when they need stock photos. The reason why is that the website now has a huge, gigantic collection of stock photos, over 1 million high-quality photos.
Unsplash is brilliant, as it has a very simple-to-use website. When you search for stock photos, say of an excavator, that’s exactly what you get.
You might be thinking, shouldn’t all stock photos do that?
The answer is no; ask any good front-end web designer when tasked with finding a stock image of something generic and basic, such as a garden fence. Some other stock photo sites sometimes show gardens, ponds, lawnmowers, and anything they think is remotely related to a garden fence.
Now, as you would imagine, this can get rather annoying when designing a new company website because, well, it can take a long time to find the right photo.
However, this is why we like Unsplash so much. We often go straight to this website when we need stock photos simply because the results are accurate. When you’re looking for a picture of an excavator, that’s exactly what you get back.
We highly recommend Unsplash. It offers great stock photos, accurate results, and is simple to use. Our web design team here at W&P gives it a massive thumbs up.
Website: https://pixabay.com/
Another really popular website is Pixabay—it’s massively popular with web design agencies. The reason why is that it has over 1 million free stock photos.
This is important because when designing a website, the designers will often need choice. Whether it’s a picture of a car dealership or a Christmas tree, it’s always good to have a choice. This is exactly what PixaBay offers: a lot of choices.
Website: https://www.freeimages.com/
Getty Images owns free images and has a massive collection of stock photos. Therefore, it’s very popular with web designers.
Pexels
Website: https://www.pexels.com/
Pexels is one of our favourite stock photo websites. We have built numerous websites for clients using Pexels photos, and there are a massive number of stock photos to choose from.
Pexels has been around since 2014, and this is important because the more established websites have a large number of stock photos.
Does your business require a website to be designed?
We know exactly what it’s like; even though some business owners could build a website themselves, do they have the time?
Even searching for the right stock photo of someone passing over a bunch of flowers takes time.
This is why so many businesses come to us in Cardiff: We can design a fantastic website with a starting price of just £950.00. We can select the stock photos, helping you to save time. Therefore, we can assist you whether you’re a plumber in a hurry or a solicitor with a diary full of meetings.
Most of our websites are designed using the CMS called WordPress.
Have you never heard of WordPress?
Well, you are most likely to have been on a WordPress website. Over 40% of all websites are built using this CMS. It’s trendy, and we have already built many websites for various Cardiff businesses using this content management system.
Why build it yourself?
So, if you read an article about free stock photos, you might be thinking about building a new website yourself.
Yet, writing all that text and selecting all of the stock images can take a lot of time. So why not let us design the website for you?
We can design a new CMS website in a very short amount of time. Most of our websites are built and designed in less than three weeks from start to finish, which helps you save time. With a starting price of just £950.00, our websites are very affordable.
Why not contact us for a quote?
Our web design company can offer the following services:
– WordPress CMS web design
– Drupal website design
– Organic search engine optimisation
– Local SEO
– Logo design
– Cardiff business