The James Kilgour Blog

AcoBox is a new service offering blogger thousands of blog pictures and images to embed into their blogs.

The one next to this text is from the service, which as you can see is a very high quality, professional image.

All the images on the service are of the same quality, after being screened and optimized for blog use.

The Images are also licensed, and adding them to posts is really simple. I tested this myself with the image you see above. I registered for the service, which only took 10 seconds after entering a username, email address and a domain name. My password was them emailed to me.

After I logged in, I did a search for some landscape pictures. I could have chosen an abstract one instead, like this one for example, (a favourite of mine).

Then I just selected the size, the alignment, then copied the code from the site, pasting it into my blog.

The images load really quickly, the service is easy to use, and best of all you don’t have to spend a penny, (unlike other certain photo sites). Most images are also licensed to be downloaded from the site to your hard drive.

Overall, this site is excellent for finding images. Normally, I use Google, but this site is fantastic, because of the high quality nature of the content.

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Blogging for me is really easy, thanks to Windows Live Writer. It’s a really easy, free piece of software, which publishes posts written on your desktop, to your blog. It supports WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, Windows Live Spaces and loads of the other popular ones. It also saves drafts when your writing, and saves all posts to your local hard drive. You can even edit old ones!

Better yet, there are loads of pluggins; (one of my favourites is the Polaroid Pluggin which makes ordinary pictures look like Polaroid snaps). It also is much easier to format than using the WordPress online editor, as images and paragraphs appear exactly the same as they will do once published.

Integration of the software is perfect with the blog hosting services; the software even links to the WordPress Dashboard and comments manager pages. Publishing posts is really simply, just click the Publish button, and voila! It’s live.

This is definitely the best way to blog in my opinion; it simplifies and quickens the process, and the greatest thing; it just works!

JK