The competition has now ended. Congrats to the 2 winners; Hayley and Luisana who have now had their dreamstime accounts credited.

We have got 2x credit packages for Dreamstime.com, worth $49.99 (£32) each, to give away! You can enter completely free.

• Competition date: Feb 10th – Feb 24th 2010.
• Entrants: Worldwide, although in dollars it doesn’t matter your location.
• Notification: Winners will be notified via email within 24hrs of closing date.
• You can read all prize draw rules at bottom of page.

This page is a gallery of some of the best stock photos provided totally free by Dreamstime. Click on the pictures to open up the site and the download links (you will need to free account).

This is just a handful of ones available, they have thousands more so visit Dreamstime now and click on the free section (login, click ‘Free Images’ at top) for more.

They have lots of top quality photos available to download instantly so well worth a good check of them all.

MoreNiche is an affiliate program. You join and promote their products, in return you get paid a commission for each sale you make.

Website: Moreniche

Region Specific: No, available to people around the world.

Who Are They? Is It A Scam: The company (MoreNiche Ltd) is a registered company in Nottinghamshire, UK. You can see all their contact details on their website including; phone number, physical address and email. So give them a call to test them out if you want to! They have been around for many years, have thousands of happy members and a genuine company. So NO, in no way is MoreNiche a scam.

How To Use The Site: First create an account. Confirm your email and login to your account, from there it is simply laid out so you can see everything such as getting your unique affiliate codes, banners, articles and the free help forum where you can chat to other members. Then get going promoting your affiliate codes to make commission.

Cost To Join: It is absolutely free.

Payouts: You can be paid by; check, international wire or Epassporte. These methods mean people all around the world can get paid.

Products: They have products in the following sectors; health and beauty, weight loss, online gaming and adult products (such as male enhancement).

Opinion: Having being an active member since March 2008 the service has always been excellent. The help from the members of staff at MoreNiche (via the members forum) is very good alongside the free advice articles they provide. The products are very good quality and convert at good rates when you promote them properly. Payouts have never been late and customer support has always been fast and helpful.

Rating: 8/10, in need of more products but the ones they do have convert very well and pay out brilliant commissions!

TIP: Don’t fall into the trap of reading what some of the big earners are making and then just thinking you will be able to do the same straight away. Some people actually think that! MoreNiche offer a lot of resources and give good help via the different members of staff so take advantage of it and work hard creating niche targetted sites for each product, this gives the best chance of success.

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If you are looking for good web hosting which offers real value for money we recommend Hostgator, they are who we host this website with and have done since 2007. This is a review of their service and a breakdown of different features and important aspects of their service.

Website: Hostgator

Region: Available worldwide, we are in the UK and have used them since 2007 without problems.

Cost: Plans begin from $4.95 per month for normal hosting accounts. Reseller plans cost from $24.95 per month. The cost for each package varies based on how long you pay for. If you pay monthly it will work out more expensive per month then if you pay for 1, 2 or 3 years in advance.

Payments: They accept Paypal and the 4 major credit cards. You pay via an automatic monthly subscription, or you buy a set period upfront (EG 12 months, 24 months etc).

Coupons: They do sometimes have offers on from time to time. When you visit their homepage they will always have a large banner showing the offer and the coupon code. However they rarely last very long so you will have to be quick!

Money-back Guarantee: They have a 45 day money-back guarantee. So any time in the first 45 days, if you are not happy, you can cancel your hosting and receive a full refund.

Customer Support: A comprehensive support system is in place with the ability to; call them toll free, submit a support ticket or use live web chat. Alternatively you can find answers to your questions in their knowledge base.

Opinion: We have used the service to host this website since 2007 and in that time have been very happy. We have needed support a few times and have submitted support tickets, which have always been answered within a few hours. And problems get sorted quickly. For the amount of web space, bandwidth and other features you get the pricing means real good value for money. They also have a billing system which is very easy to use.

Rating: Based on our experience we give them 9/10.

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All info was correct at the time this article was published online.

Online file hosting services allow you to store, share and manage all your files securely on the web. You can store all types of files and share them instantly with whoever you like.

Using a secure file hosting service will save you a lot of time compared to how you would normally share documents with your work partners or even friends or family, and best of all it is very low-cost!

The best file hosting service is currently Box, here is all the info on their service:

Website: Box.net

The Service: Box is a file hosting service which is low cost and very easy to use. It allows you to securely store, manage and share files online.

The Cost: Three different packages are available, all come with a 14 day free trial so if you don’t like the service you can use another file host.

    – ‘Plus’ package (2GB) costs $24 per year (equiv to $2 per month)

    – ‘Individual’ package (5GB) costs $7.95 per month

    – ‘Business’ package (15GB) costs $19.95 per month

All very reasonable costs considering the disk space you get, time the service will save you when sharing documents and the space saved on your hard drive.

Overall Rating: We give Box 9/10.

There are lots of royalty free stock market images available to download on the web, ideal for web design, presentations, leaflets etc.

There are plenty to purchase online, here is a collection from Dreamstime, they are royalty free and cost from as little as $0.33 (available worldwide).

If none of those in the collection listed above are what you are after simply use their search function and you will find hundreds more related pictures.

Here is a collection of websites that we are affiliated with to help promotion for our site. They are all related to web design or photography.

Art Links Topsite | Fine Art Sites | Photosites | Photography Top 100

Royalty Free | Photography Resources at 2gogo | Active Free Stuff

None Stock Image Related

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