During September 2009 the guys over at the UK web host and domain registrar LCN.com are having a special month of offers!

Each day they are posting one new offer, which is only valid for 24 hours. At the time of writing the promotion code is for 99% off web hosting. Yes you did read that right – 99% off! Which means their basic package for 1 year would cost 21p, and their biggest and best package a whopping 56p!

At the time of writing the offer above only has 12hrs left so you may miss it. But can keep an eye on all the offers on THIS PAGE, add it to your favorites and return each day to see the new offer.

This is a one-off opportunity so if you are a UK webmaster and want to lower your costs check them out and save a few quid. They are a big company with over 50,000 websites hosted and 350,000 domains registered so they are trustworthy.

Professional designers will already do this but most general webmasters (like myself) often don’t. Everytime you do some work on your web design always check it is compatible in all browsers.

In the past I had done work and checked it using Internet Explorer and not even considered how it looked in Firefox, Opera etc. As soon as it looked fine in IE I presumed it would be fine in the others. However that wasn’t the case and for ages I had some web designs which were all skewif in Firefox, not good for visitors!

How To Check Cross Compatibility
Don’t worry you don’t have to download all browsers. Simply visit browsershots.org, type in your web address and check the options for browsers/systems you want to check.

Wait 30minutes or so and you will soon have a bunch of screenshots showing you what your website looks like in the different browsers. Then you can make corrections as required. Very easy and completely free!

Image credit: cogdog

We have yet another new and quality section on our main website, it’s about using Moving Animations on your website! Animations really help set your website apart from competitors and improve the visual appeal when visitors first land on your website.

Animations aren’t used enough by webmasters in my opinion. For a start they don’t make any silly noises or anything like that, and they have more of an impact than traditional images but don’t take up any extra space. Best of all they are incredibly low-cost so you can instantly improve your websites visual appeal and make it look more professional for just a few dollars.

We have also partnered with Anistock to allow you to view their entire library from our website! This means you can have a quick browse of whats available without leaving FreeStockImages.net, and if you like what you see you can click thru to the Anistock website and buy the animations for a couple of dollars each!

In the next couple of days a post will be published as part of new FOTM blog feature. FOTM stands for Feature Of The Month and is a new regular feature for the blog! To keep up with everything don’t forget to subscribe to the free updates!

We are pleased to announce the official opening of the latest service from FreeStockImages.net, it is an estore where you can buy software online – it goes by the name of The Software Store, original huh!?

The store offers products from a range of categories to do with software and eproducts including; audio, finance, education, internet, design, development as well as a few others.

All products can be purchased via a secure checkout (paypal, credit card or check) and the products are sent to you digitally a few hours after payment.

So add the software store to your bookmarks or favorites and return whenever you want a new script, ebook or software for your PC!

123RF is the leading supplier and distributor of royalty free stock images and low cost rights-managed images. They currently have a contest running where you can win a Wacom Bamboo or 20 123RF credits, to win all you have to do is search for images on their website as you normally would!

It is a great little contest, you don’t actually have to do anything to enter and you could win a really good prize. One Wacom Bamboo is being given away EVERY DAY! Just search for images on the 123RF website, look out for a special thumbnail and take home a cool Wacom Bamboo. They are also giving away 10 packages of ‘20 123RF credits’ every day. Read the 123RF Search and Win page for more info.

The Powers Or Wacom Bamboo
Wacom Bamboo is a graphics tablet that allows your computer to be your canvas. Check out this little beauty, it would be so cool creating work like this!

I am a regular user of 123RF’s services, their website is very easy to use and they have over 2million stock photographs which you can get your hands on at very low-cost. The service is also listed on our main website on the stock image providers page. If you are trying to save on your expenditure they also have over 12,000 stock images which you can download and use for free.

I’ve used the 123RF website quite a bit today so I’m in with a chance of winning! Are you in the contest?

I’ve stumbled across some great content today and thought it is well worth sharing.

Cheaper .Com Domains
If you want to save yourself money on domain registration (who doesn’t?) then this forum post on NP provides codes for Godaddy, long-term it can save you lots of dollars so worth bookmarking. I’m not a regular on NP so have only just found out about this post, even though it was started in August 2005! Shows there is always new stuff to discover.

Improve eCommerce Sales By Changing Prices
If you are a webmaster who runs an ecommerce site or is involved in them I highly recommend you read this post which has 8 pricing strategies which play to human behaviour. Whether you sell physical products or eBooks/software/scripts etc it is well worth a read.

That’s your lot for the moment, for more good services check out our recently updated Webmaster Sites which lists the top10 services we currently use on FSI or have used in running our online business. Enjoy!

Today we are pleased to announce our new free unlimited image hosting service is now live. The service allows you to upload images and host them on our website, absolutely free.

Using the service is super easy. Simply visit the minisite, browse, select and upload – wait a few seconds and the job is done! If you want to upload lots of images you can create an account to manage them in your own galleries, if you don’t want an account then there is no requirement to create one.

Your images can be displayed publicly or privately and only take a few seconds to upload.

Don’t forget to add the service to your favorites! Free Image Host

We are putting together a new ‘free image hosting’ service to help expand our existing main website and blog. It will be much the same as other free image hosts although it will be faster loading and have less adverts than most competitors. The script for the service is just being completed now and will be live on our website soon!

I will make an update once the service has been launched, if you want to start using the service right away you should subscribe to our blog feed (square orange button at top of your browser) or add this blog post to your faves and check back in a few weeks.

The right images on a website can really help complete a design in style. No matter what the nature or style of your site design there are always plenty of images you can use absolutely free (or though you may have to credit the photographer). On our main site we previously only listed 4 providers of free stock images, now we list 6! You can check them out on our Stock Photo Providers page.

For even more providers check out this list.