Hour 8. Putting Graphics on a Web Page

Hour 8. Putting Graphics on a Web Page

In Hour 7, "Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics," you learned how to make digital images for your web pages, both still and animated. This hour shows you how easy it is to put those graphics on your pages with HTML. Fortunately, there is nothing special you have to do to place an animated image on a web page, as compared to a still image.

Try It Yourself

You should get two or three images ready now so that you can try putting them on your own pages as you follow along with this hour. If you have some image files already saved in the GIF, PNG, or JPEG format (the filenames will end in .gif, .png, or .jpg), use those. It's also fine to use any graphics you created while reading the preceding lesson.

Did you Know? At the Sams Publishing website, you'll find live links to many graphics and multimedia hot lists and sites, where you can find ready-to-use graphics. The familiar web search engines and directories, such as google.com, yahoo.com, and lycos.com, can become a gold mine of graphics images just by leading you to sites related to your own theme. They can also help you discover the oodles of sites specifically dedicated to providing free and cheap access to reusable media collections. Also, don't forget Microsoft's massive clip art library at the Office Online Clip Art and Media web site, located at http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/.com