About two and a half years ago and on a day of no particular importance, I got into work early one morning. With a bit of time to kill, I fired up Adobe Illustrator CS3 and decided to draw something. The first thing that popped into my head was a tick and a cross icon. So, I spent around 5-10mins drawing a red cross and a green tick. They were quite basic icons, but effective. I uploaded the final drawing to iStockphoto and this icon set has been selling steadily ever since.
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Let’s get to it. To start with, I’m an iStockphoto contributor. At the moment I contribute vector illustrations, but I’m looking to get into photography at some stage too.
Today, we’re going to find out how to:
- Find your iStock recent image RSS Feed
- Use Google Feedburner to embed the iStockphoto RSS feed into your website
- See how many people are clicking on your feed links
Please note, this method I am about to describe allows you to embed up to 10 images from your iStock recent uploads into your website. Why 10 you ask? Well that’s all that comes out of the iStock feed. Also, I am using Google Feedburner as it lets you get statistical information on click throughs etc plus it automatically updates your website with your most recent images. Feedburner will provide you with a fairly basic looking feed, but you can style it more if you know some CSS coding. If you don’t know CSS maybe find someone who does and they can style it for you.
Whilst this tutorial specifically refers to embedding an iStockphoto RSS feed into your website, you can also apply some of the methods listed here to embed any other RSS feed you may have into your website.
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I am an iStockphoto Contributor. Currently I do vector illustrations but I am aiming to branch out and do some photography as well. If you like my work and would like to use it, feel free to visit my iStock account where you can buy the image to use for yourself. Below are some of my most recent images that link straight through to larger previews on my iStock account. Here you have the option to buy them
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