<html> Topic 6

Picture this on your web page.

This week's goals:

The art of preparing graphics for the web is an enormous topic, worthy of a separate course or of a career. This week you will master the basic steps for inserting graphics on a web page. The text explains the most basic ideas about web graphics. The comments in the highlighted link "<img src>" below deal primarily with code, speed, and courtesy/copyright issues.

What to do this week:

1. Go to the preferences section of your browser and select "graphics off." Visit several of your favorite sites and browse the web with the graphics turned off. Send a note to the ListServ describing a site examined with the graphics turned off, discussing one or more of the following questions:

What role do the graphics play on the site?
Are there some sites that are useless or unintelligible without the graphics?
Did you notice any sites that loaded much more quickly with the graphics turned off?

Make the subject of your message to the ListServ "Topic 6: graphics."

2. Read the material on inserting graphics in the text of your choice. (For example, if you use Raggett on HTML 4, read chapter 8. If you use Elizabeth Castro's HTML for the World Wide Web, read chapter 5. If you use More Excellent HTML, read chapter 6.) The other references included in the "Readings" link below offer other approaches and more detailed suggestions for dealing with graphics.

3. Try the quiz if you find that useful.

Web Version

4. Do this week's submission and post it on the web. If you need help, post your question to the ListServ with the topic of your message marked "Help for Topic 6."

Instructor: dwang@think-ink.net