STOCKByWAY Site Help

 

Site Usage

Browse View Images:

• Click on a Picture Category on left hand side. This will open the category tree and show you various sub categories.
• Click on the names of the sub categories to show their contents.
• When the Search Results page appears click on the small thumbnail images to see a details.

Select Images & Add to Cart:

• Click on the link "large image" below each thumbnail to view a larger image.
• Click on the "Add to Cart" link to buy this image, this will then ask you what size you require.
• When you have finished selecting all your images click on the View Cart button above.
• You can Empty Cart or proceed to Checkout and fill in your details.

 

Searching for Images

"And" Behavior

By default, Stockbyway only returns pages that match all the keywords entered in a search. The more keywords you use, the more refined the search becomes. You don't need to type the word and between keywords; it's done automatically by the search engine.

Exact Matches

If keywords are surrounded by quotation marks, the search will only return pages that contain the keywords in the exact order as they appear within the quotation marks. For example, a search for "image editing" will return only pages that contain the exact phrase, "image editing."

Wild Cards

The Stockbyway search engine does support wild card searches. This type of search works well when searching for similar acronyms. Wild card searches fill in the blank in regard to completing only a word, not a phrase. A search for "I*" would not return "Image Editing Software." Wild card searching can find only matches that complete the word in which the * appears.

Case Sensitivity

The Stockbyway search engine is not case sensitive. A search for "iPhoto" or "IPHOTO" or "iphoto" would return the same set of results.

Searching Within Results

Often, your first search attempt produces too many search results. (We have a lot of photographs.) To narrow the results, you may want to perform a new search that searches only within the results returned by the too-broad search query. To narrow a search, add more words to the end of your search query. The new query usually will return a subset of the pages returned by the too-broad query.

Didn't find what you were looking for? Found too much?

Make sure all words are spelled correctly. We don't have one of those fancy spell-check engines, and if we did they might not know how Flashforward or GarageBand is spelled. Not sure of the spelling, or your term has a lot of variations? Try using a wild card character (*) after the letters you do know. To get more results, try to use more general keywords, or limit the number of keywords.