Chapter 8. Including Images and Media


Image and media files convey an important amount of the message of your Web site. Depending on your site, you may even get most of your message across with pictures and moving media, such as video and animation. Most sites, however, use images to supplement the text, which is the main source of information and interest to your site's visitors .

On the other hand, we've all seen Web sites that suffer from graphic overkill. There's a balancing act between sites that use graphics to enhance the message and those that use images to bludgeon the visitor into submission. Just think of all the sites that you've seen that use images of green text on a red background, for instance, or the sites that are so proud of their "fabulous" graphic look that they relegate the text to microscopic type.

Dreamweaver has many abilities to place and modify images, as well as to control how text wraps around images. The program also does a great job of adding dynamic media to your pages, such as Flash animations and movie files, such as QuickTime and Windows Media. In this chapter, we'll cover how you can use Dreamweaver to add graphics and media files to your Web pages. You'll get to use your talents to add images to express and enhance your site's message.




Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows & Macintosh Visual QuickStart Guide
Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 for Windows & Macintosh
ISBN: 0321350278
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2005
Pages: 239

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