Photo Images give life to your web pages, but there are many purposes for photographs.

 

It’s very important to segregate photographic images into two distinct groupings. The first grouping are images that add reinforcement to web site content. The second grouping are photos designed to be studied.

 

The reason it’s important to make this distinction is that it will enable you to correctly format your images, and display them using the correct WEBPLUS tools. Let’s start with “reinforcement” images.

 

These are the images that may appear next to, or within, article content to give a visual representation of what the article is all about. Such images should be clearly visible, but shouldn’t monopolize the page. These images are often best included in the HTML box used to create the article (in-line images). This helps ensure that the images stay with the article if you move things about later on.

 

Images of this type shouldn’t be too overpowering. A general rule of thumb is to size the images to about one third or half of the width of the HTML frame containing the associated text. It’s also a good Idea to size your images BEFORE importing them into WEBPLUS. There are a number of free resize utilities on the Internet that do this job easily and quickly. Not only will such utilities resize the physical dimensions of your images, but they will also reduce their size on disk. This process makes life a little easier for you when placing in-line images. For example, if you have standard HTML frames on your site measuring 500 pixels wide, you can resize all your in-line images to say 250 pixels wide in an external program. When you add these images, they will all be the correct size and perfectly placed within your text (either left or right), giving balance to your content. The images on this page illustrate the point quite well.

 

Next, we’ll take a look at Images for studying. Click here to continue