Use Images to Enhance Posts

If one picture is worth a thousand words, one picture plus a thousand words must be worth five thousand words, as long as the words and pictures complement each other. A consistent pattern again improves your blog’s visual identity.

Chapter 6 identified your image formatting options, and now you can see how and when to use them.

Art for Interest

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As with headings, you can use images to break up a large block of uninterrupted text. If you do not have a suitable image, you can consider microstock images in addition to the public domain images mentioned in Chapter 6. Two popular microstock sites are iStockPhoto.com

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