How do you infuse the images on your website with the worth of a thousand words? The various photo-sharing and editing programs and software make it possible to customize, embellish, and tweak your photos to enhance the uniqueness of your brand's online image. As my Los Angeles website design team often shows me, you can make things pretty ornate with some of these fancy tools, but sometimes the simplest (and thankfully easiest) tricks and solutions are the best to suit your needs, hence the explosive popularity of the photo-sharing app, Instagram.

The appeal of Instagram is not necessarily the ability to add a bunch of wild effects to a photo but to recapture the grainy, unpolished softness of pre-digital images that we remember. Perhaps an app that makes a crisp, high-definition photo look like a Polaroid from 1985 seems counterintuitive. Call it what you will, but Facebook paid $1 billion for it this past week, so Instagram- which began as a startup with next to no money and no business plan- is going to become even more integrated into the way we share pictures through social media. Thus, keeping your website's images a step ahead of the game with a fun app like Storywheel can't hurt.

Released by Soundcloud, Storywheel lets you create your own vintage-looking slideshows incorporate audio narratives and music. Given the Instagram's recent partnership with Facebook, several related features will be added to users' profiles and timelines, making it beneficial to your business page to have a working knowledge of how to use them. To use Storywheel, all you need is an Instagram account (which you can get through iTunes or the Google Play Store). Then, go to the main site, connect to your Instagram images, and start telling your story.