Using Images in Web Pages
Sources for Graphics on Web Pages
There are many ways to create and obtain graphic images. You can make your own images with a digital camera or scanner. You can draw your images using a paint or draw program such as Gimp, or you can use free clip art collections.
If you use any images from a web collection, be sure to give credit to the site.
Do not right mouse click and save an image from a web site that does not provide free clip art collections without getting permission from the web page owner.
Check out these sites for clip art.
- Background Textures and More
- Free Clip Art
- More Free Clip Art
Guidelines for using graphics on a web page include:
- Images must support the content of the page and have a purpose.
- Codes for images should indicate an alt property to describe the graphic.
- Every image tag should indicate the height and width of the image measured in pixels.
- Reuse images to conserve load times.
Images for your web site.
- Store all images in a separate folder on the site.
- Size and name images before you upload them to the folder.
- Use a thumbnail (small) image as a hyperlink to a larger image.
- Images can be graphic links such as buttons.
Set the border="0" to remove the blue box around an image link.
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