We suspect that it's not really John Smith...

 The perils of stock photography... 

This diagram says it all really. While stock photography has its place, you should always check how many times an image from a commercial library has been downloaded by others before purchasing it. 

We saw John Smith featured above on a website next to a testimonial. Recognising it as a stock shot we ran it past Google images to and discovered that this image is in use on over a 100 different websites with in the first 10 pages of google alone. 

Which is why we suspect

Pipe10’s website of the month!

We are very proud to see that the website we produced for our client Essential Reading Plus (ERP) has been selected as website of the month by hosting company Pipe10. ERP specialise in educational books and send out thousands of emails a month and receive thousands of unique visitors annually to their site which they regularly update with new products and offers.

Each month Pipe 10 review and nominate a site and then email all their customers and post it on their site - which is great publicity for nominated site and by association, the designers.

In their review Pipe 10 say ‘Essential Reading Plus are a comprehensive and up-to-date, independent online educational bookseller. They carry books that cover early years, right through to youth work therefore providing you and your children with a vast array of literature. If the title you are looking for is not on their site there is no need to worry, if you let them know what you are after, they will see if they can track it down for you.

Providing an extensive category list on their site means you can cater your search to find the right books for you, or alternately have a look at their carefully produced list of useful links to help you find exactly what you are after. Why not have a look at their Book of the Month and see if it is something that interests you or browse through their sale items to get yourself a great deal.”

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