User Guide

Introduction
Until now you have been working with tables, text, and connecting pages. This lesson will
teach you how to add more visual appeal to the pages in your web.
As a homework assignment in school, did you ever have to read a book that didn’t have any
pictures in it? And even the pages were stark white with black text? No matter how engaging
the story was, it was probably a chore just to get through it. Webs without visual appeal are
just like that book with one exception. Your web is unlikely to be a required reading! That
means if it doesn’t look good, your visitors will leave without a second thought. Adding
graphical elements can make your web, and in turn, its content, more attractive.
TOPIC A
Adding a Picture to a Page
Now that your pages contain text content, it’s time to dress them up a bit. One of the first
steps to making your web look better is to add pictures to its pages. You will learn how to do
that in this topic.
Pictures are a fantastic ways to add variety and information to your pages. For example, logos
convey a sense of location as visitors click through your site. A picture of an employee can
“put a face to a name” while adding a feeling of familiarity. Pictures deliver a lot of bang for
their buck.
Add a Picture to a Page
Procedure
Reference:
One reason webs are so popular is that they quickly and easily enable you to
include pictures in web pages. You can import images, or pictures, to your
web, insert them on pages, align them with text, and add hyperlinks to them.
1
Place the insertion point where you want the picture to be located.
2
Click the Insert Picture From File button on the toolbar. (Or choose
Insert→Picture→From File.
3
Select the name of the picture and click Insert.
Picture
Types
Pictures used on web pages should be one of two file types: Graphics Inter-
change Format (GIFs) or Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) format.
Ordinarily, the image file format you will use, GIF or JPEG, will be deter-
mined by the purpose of the image. A good general rule for folks new to web
images is to use the GIF image file format for nearly all web images. Because
GIF files can contain only up to 256 colors, producing a relatively small file
size, they are best used when creating small, solid-colored images, such as but-
tons and icons. When high image quality must be maintained, such as in
photos or images that have gradients and/or shading, use the JPEG image file
format because JPEG files can contain millions of colors, while still maintain-
ing a relatively small file size.
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