Adding Images and Graphics to your Web Page.
The best formats to use for web page images are jpeg’s or jpg’s and gifs. These are the standard format of most images you’ll see on web sites. The reason for this is because they are small and load very easily so your web page will be on view very quickly.
Note: This is an often ignored concept of web design. In general most people will not wait more than ten seconds for a web page to load. If your web page takes too long they’ll be off somewhere else and will probably never return. But as long as they see something happening and it doesn’t take too long they wait a few seconds.
Gifs and jpegs are readily available all over the internet. In general terms a jpeg is a photograph and a gif is a drawn or generated image. There exceptions to the rule but saving a photograph as a gif is generally best avoided as the quality suffers but sometimes it is better to save a generated image as a gif. It all depends on the image.
If you are not working with jpegs and gifs then you will need to convert your images to the correct format. There are lots of free image software packages available for download from a multitude of web sites. ACDC seems to me one of the top packages but there are many to choose from and you should look for one you are confident with using.
Alternatively you can purchase software. Paint Shop Pro is fairly inexpensive but in my experience is cumbersome and overly complicated. Corel photopaint works very well. Fireworks is a nice package and is specially developed for the purpose of web design. Likewise Freehand is better suited to web design. And then there is the daddy of them all; Photoshop. Prices vary and unless you are seriously considering web design as a future mode of employment a free or cheap software package will perform very nicely.
Using graphics on your web page is fairly simple. Most web design packages give easy options for adding them wherever you want on your web page. The only real hard and fast rule is place a header graphic at the top of your web page and this is standard practice. Although you could just use a written text header images look so much nicer and more professional.
So think about the design of your page and consider where you wish to place your graphics then try it out. If it doesn’t look right then change it around until you are happy with the look and feel of your images on your web page.
Note: One word of warning, avoid animated gifs on your web page. They are out dated and will look like they are. All you will do is make your page look old fashioned and clunky. The only form of animation you should consider on your web page is flash. You can get some flash software packages very reasonably priced and they are not too difficult to use. But please, in no uncertain terms use any kind of animated gifs.
© Tim Guy Intrepreuner IT
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Note: This is an often ignored concept of web design. In general most people will not wait more than ten seconds for a web page to load. If your web page takes too long they’ll be off somewhere else and will probably never return. But as long as they see something happening and it doesn’t take too long they wait a few seconds.
Gifs and jpegs are readily available all over the internet. In general terms a jpeg is a photograph and a gif is a drawn or generated image. There exceptions to the rule but saving a photograph as a gif is generally best avoided as the quality suffers but sometimes it is better to save a generated image as a gif. It all depends on the image.
If you are not working with jpegs and gifs then you will need to convert your images to the correct format. There are lots of free image software packages available for download from a multitude of web sites. ACDC seems to me one of the top packages but there are many to choose from and you should look for one you are confident with using.
Alternatively you can purchase software. Paint Shop Pro is fairly inexpensive but in my experience is cumbersome and overly complicated. Corel photopaint works very well. Fireworks is a nice package and is specially developed for the purpose of web design. Likewise Freehand is better suited to web design. And then there is the daddy of them all; Photoshop. Prices vary and unless you are seriously considering web design as a future mode of employment a free or cheap software package will perform very nicely.
Using graphics on your web page is fairly simple. Most web design packages give easy options for adding them wherever you want on your web page. The only real hard and fast rule is place a header graphic at the top of your web page and this is standard practice. Although you could just use a written text header images look so much nicer and more professional.
So think about the design of your page and consider where you wish to place your graphics then try it out. If it doesn’t look right then change it around until you are happy with the look and feel of your images on your web page.
Note: One word of warning, avoid animated gifs on your web page. They are out dated and will look like they are. All you will do is make your page look old fashioned and clunky. The only form of animation you should consider on your web page is flash. You can get some flash software packages very reasonably priced and they are not too difficult to use. But please, in no uncertain terms use any kind of animated gifs.
© Tim Guy Intrepreuner IT
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