Chapter 6: Enhance Your Presentation with Graphics

Overview

How to…

• Understand graphics formats

• Find graphics

• Insert an image on your page

• Control image placement and appearance

• Create image links

• Use CSS with images

Web pages without pictures can be pretty dull places. The content might be great, but today’s world is visually oriented. People who visit your site expect to see more than straight text. But how do you give it to them without having to invest in (and learn how to use) a lot of expensive software? The good news is that there are more resources available than you’ll ever have time to check out, and many of them are free. But before you begin working with graphics, you must absorb a little background information about how graphics work on the Web.