Lesson 7. Adding Images, Color, and Backgrounds

If you've been struggling to keep up with all the HTML tags I've been flinging at you the last couple of days, this lesson will be easier.

In this Lesson

In fact, in this lesson you won't be learning very many new HTML tags. Instead, you'll learn about how to add images to your pages and change the color of elements on a page. In particular, you'll learn the following:

• The kinds of images you can use in web pages

• How to include images on your web page, either alone or alongside text

• How to use images as clickable links

• How to set up and assign links to regions of images using client-side imagemaps

• How to provide alternatives for browsers that can't view images

• How to change the font and background colors on your web page

• How to use images for tiled page backgrounds

• How and when to use images on your web pages

• A few tips on image etiquette

After this lesson, you'll know all you need to know about adding images to your web pages.