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One thing I've noticed on Weebly, Squarespace, Wix and other similar "DIY without any coding" website platforms is that all their themes depend on having excellent photography.

Excellent photography is great, but many of the small businesses who are primarily targeted with these services, don't have it. And stock photography looks like, well, stock photography.

I'd love to see a service like this embrace themes that don't depend on great photography. Themes that make good use of typography and other non-image visual elements.

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For some stock photography that doesn't feel so "stocky" check out this repo

https://github.com/heyalexej/awesome-images

There are some really good sites in there that have very high quality photos free for use. My two favorites are:

http://www.gratisography.com/

http://isorepublic.com/

Not to diminish your point that more themes need to gear themselves towards imageless content, this is just a good place to start for those working on budgets.

Free (do whatever you want) high-resolution photos.

https://unsplash.com/

I use them alot, great selection of really unique shots.

Very true. Great photography is key for a great looking site. We do have some good stock photography available, but it will never look as good as the real deal.

I love your suggestion for more typography focused themes!

It would be cool to make a service that does stock photography (or custom photography for the right price) that integrates with Weebly, Squarespace, Wix and other similar DIY website platforms.

Weebly has built-in integrations to Getty Images where you can license photos from their library. Is that what you're asking for?

This is problem for every website theme - even lots of bootstrap themes depend on glorious images. Designers who build themes have access to great images and so they use them constantly.

Even searching for wordpress themes (of which millions exist) recently I had to ignore 75% of what I saw because they have a huge hero or full column images.

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