Shiatsu Website Design - Photographs and Images
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This is the Griffen Mill Design Guide to designing websites for shiatsu practitioners. This section focusses on the use of photographs as well as images such as diagrams or illustrations. Other parts of the guide focus on colour, shape and aesthetic designs and making appropriate content and copywriting decisions. Click to return to the main guide.
Images and Photographs for Shiatsu Practitioners
In most cases, a shiatsu practitioner will wish to convey a professional and inviting impression with their website. They will also be looking to emphasise a human touch and give a reassurance that they can bring the client a sense of well being. Depending on the client, some practitioners will wish to convey a more clinical image, using photographs of clean and professional looking treatment rooms or of treatments taking place, while others will take a more wellbeing line and opt for images of active and positive people.
Sourcing Images for a Shiatsu Website
You can take them yourself, but these days online image libraries are a fantastic resource of high quality, low cost and immense choice. In fact there are so many images online, that it is useful to experiment with keywords to find just what you are looking for.
The obvious starting point for an image for a shiatsu website is to search for shiatsu, or shiatsu massage. However depending on how the photographer has tagged their image, it may not find everything that you may be looking for. Try searching for body or treatment perhaps. The other approach you can take is to type in mood keywords such as relaxing, as the emotional content of the website is all important. Once you have found an image that is close to what you are looking for, there may also be an option to 'see more like this', which will show you similar images that might just hit the mark.
A short list of words you might try for a shiatsu website may include: treatment, revitalise, anatomy, health, massage, healing, calm, holistic, reflex, balance, well-being, relaxing, therapy.
We often use Shutterstock for images for shiatsu websites, as we find they have a good range of high quality photographs.
Example Images for Shiatsu
Finally, we have included below a number of typical images we might use with a shiatsu website. These images are not intended for you to copy and reuse, in fact there are likely to be copyright problems with you doing that. However we have included commentary on how we feel these images suit a shiatsu website, so that you can take inspiration from them and find your own individual images.
Shiatsu Massage Treatment
This is a typical image used within a shiatsu website so as to show the nature of the treatments that are offered by the practitioner. The image displays the hands-on approach to a shiatsu practitioners work, whilst emphasising the relaxing effects on the patient and importantly bringing in the warm skin tones that may form the colour scheme to a warm and inviting design.
Calming Stones
Natural subjects can emphasise a calming and relaxing appeal to the design. When choosing these natural images, it is important to think about the overall colour scheme, ensuring a complementing primary colour within the image will fit in well with the rest of the design.
