Terms & Conditions, and properly Attributing Work on a Website

Of course this is no substitute for legal advice, but you can google "terms and conditions for website" and find templates to help with a good basis for your website. It takes just a little while to skim through a template and edit out the parts that aren't relevant for you. You could also try looking at what other designers use on their websites and adjust it for your own. No need to reinvent the wheel when there's already so many terms and conditions pages out there. That is what I did for my website.

As for giving credit, is there space for a quick link near the animation or photo in a caption? Or maybe at the bottom of the page in smaller font size you can say "Photos: link to give credit" and "Animations: link" etc, kind of like a footnote if it were a printed page. Would that work?

Jennifer,

So how funny, I went home and did actually look up some templates for terms and conditions. A bit confusing as far as the language so I am actually considering getting legal advice.

As far as the credit, good point. By any chance, do you have any example websites that might attribute their work in such a way?

Hi Jonathan,

So when I wrote the answer for giving credits, I was kind of thinking of the way people use Creative Commons, with the photo itself linked or a caption that properly attributes the photo. Tons of websites use this method. Here's a good rundown of how many people give credit if you're not already familiar with CC How do you attribute Creative Commons Flickr photos?