Ugh, stock image sites. Literally the worst part of my job

[Classic Jorge]

Reams and reams of "business" shots with people doing handshakes and cheesy smiles

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

They need to launch and have their first even though, hence me trawling through some of the worst, most teeth-grinding, images on the internet.

Like those little figures holding up words like 'success' and 'helpful'? Yeah. we've got bundles of those :-(

['Neg]

[Classic Jorge]

['Neg]

[Berni]

All those shots of clean-cut types on there are of your actual staff, are they? Not, for instance, stock shots? :rubchin:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

A warm bullshot.

[Berni]

Much better to have pictures of nicely-dressed American gay chaps shaking hands instead Imo.

[Harry Balls]

[Classic Jorge]

scuse me mister charlie, can we have christmas morning off?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9PzMXC04dIs/TNFfiADBsNI/AAAAAAAAAD4/0xrE6de5dRs/s1600/urchins.jpg

[Classic Jorge]

http://energydescentforbeginners.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/bouncing_ad.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Back to work! Or 'tis the work'us for ye all!

[redgunamo]

Oh, f**k it. You're right; it's vodka!

[Classic Jorge]

Yeah, I build websites

[redgunamo]

[Harry Balls]

If it's one-time, how does one reengage to ensure SEO is optimized, etc.?

[Classic Jorge]

Ongoing stuff like optimisation, updates, hosting and development is all done on an ad-hoc basis.

I dislike cookie cutter solutions, everything is bespoke. The sites we build are usually pretty complex, social networks, e-commerce, media uploads etc so there's never a one size fits all solution.

[Harry Balls]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

http://m.watfordobserver.co.uk/resources/images/2394376.jpg

[Harry Balls]

[Classic Jorge]

I very much doubt the NYT, Number10.gov and Le Monde would build their sites in it if that was an issue though.

And in terms of overheads, it's open source