Adding Images

Images make our web pages interesting. A page or plain text is just plain BORING! There are some guidelines to follow when using images on your web pages. Here are some issues we'll discuss today.

• Image size and file size - If you've ever waited minutes for a picture to download, you'll understand the importance of keeping file size down. Key point: Small in visual size is not the same as small file size. You should have a very good reason for having an image of more than 30K file size on your page.
• Use an 'images' folder - keep all images for a small to medium-sized website in an images folder inside your main web folder. This is only a convention, but it will save you lots of difficulty laer on.
• 'jpeg' and 'gif' formats - these are two different formats that compress (make file size smaller) your images. There are others, but these are the main ones. In general 'gif' images are for images with a limited number of colors (like logos or drawings) and 'jpeg' images are best used for many colored images like photos.