Adding Images, Media, and Scripts - Help a site become "Content Rich"

mages, media, and scripting help a site become "dynamic and rich." This is called dynamic because many of these features offer the opportunity for the site visitor to interact in an active way with the site. It's rich because the site becomes richer visually and in terms of content. Images in this tutorial refers specifically to images you'll be adding to your page as part of the design itself or as a means of enhancing the content, such as with photos. Images must be processed in a specific way

How To Design A Banner - Why and how to create your own banner advertisements

In this tutorial we'll discuss why and how to create your own banner advertisements. If you already have banners and simply want to display these banners on your web site(s), please see our other tutorial: How To Display Banners. The tutorial is divided into six chapters: 1. Why Create A Banner We'll begin by discussing the reasons why you might want to create banner advertisements. 2. Choosing A File Format There are several different file formats that you can use f

How To Display Banners

In this tutorial, we'll discuss various methods of displaying banner advertisements on your web site including the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. (If you want to design a banner graphic, please see our tutorial: How To Design A Banner). The tutorial is divided into three chapters: 1. Using HTML The simplest option is to place banner code directly into your web pages, however this has some significant disadvantages. 2. Using JavaScript Another way o

How To Make A FAVICON - A detailed guide to creating a website icon

FAVICON is a small graphic used to represent a particular web site. It can be displayed by various browsers (including Internet Explorer 5 and above) when navigating or bookmarking that web site. Once placed there, the a compatible browser should be able to pick it up (although it may be able to first clear the browser's cache). Where and if the FAVICON is displayed in the browser depends on the browser's user interface, but in Internet Explorer, FAVICON is displayed in the browser's address

How To Make A FAVICON - A detailed guide to creating a website icon

FAVICON is a small graphic used to represent a particular web site. It can be displayed by various browsers (including Internet Explorer 5 and above) when navigating or bookmarking that web site. Once placed there, the a compatible browser should be able to pick it up (although it may be able to first clear the browser's cache). Where and if the FAVICON is displayed in the browser depends on the browser's user interface, but in Internet Explorer, FAVICON is displayed in the browser's address

How To Make Web Animations With A Photo Background

The main formats for presenting graphics on the web all have advantages and disadvantages. ow one obvious thing that you can see by reading this chart, is if you want animation you need to use GIF, but if you want to present photographs you need to use JPEG (or perhaps PNG). But what if you want to show an animation on top of a photographic background? There's no obvious solution in the chart! Fortunately, as far as web design is concerned, there is a solution: take advantage of GIF's

Image Slicing - How To Slice An Image Into Smaller Images for your site

When you are creating HTML pages containing image, a common task is to slice up a big image into multiple smaller images, for example if you want to place the small images in <TABLE> cells. (Although for some uses, you may be able avoid having to do this slicing by using Imagemaps). (If you don't understand HTML then get yourself a good HTML Tutorial). * If you have a good quality professional painting software, it may include a built-in function to slice images up like this for

Using Images

Ever wondered how people get images on their webpages? This tutorial will show you how. There are many types of images, including GIFs, JPGs, PNGs, BMPs, ect. I usually use JPGs and GIFs - Each of these types of images have there own advantages and disadvantages (except for BMPs when it comes to the internet you should never use these because of their huge file sizes compared to JPGs and GIFs). There are many places you can download images or you can create you own either way you can put the

Adding images to your site the easy way

An easy way to make your site look cool is to add some images. This just tells your page to display an image, now you must specify what image you want to display. To do that, change "YOUR IMAGE" to the name of the image you want to display, including the path and .jpg/.gif ext.

Disabling The IE 6 MyImage Tool Bar

IE6+ incorporates a new feature called the MyImage Toolbar, which, if enabled on Tools > Internet Options > Advanced > Enable Image Toolbar, provides the user with a popup menu over images that allows the user to instantly save, print, or email any image in a page. This technical note shows how to disable or enable this feature.

Image Attributes

There are main attributes we can add to the image tag which describe or alter the appearance of the image. 1. ALIGN One we already touched on is the align tag. When used with the image it allows the image to be oriented in some horizontal location on the page in relationship to the text, or with slight vertical adjustments. Typical align values are right, center, left, top, middle. 2. WIDTH The width tag will tell the browser how wide to display the image.

Inserting Images and Backgrounds

While working with text is important, and color adds some character to a page, what makes a page exciting is images. Here we will learn how to put images into our page. IMAGES Let's talk about images. When you use an image, basically you are linking to it. It is wise to upload the image to your site. If an image is uploaded to your web site, you do not have to link the entire web address, only the picture name. For our purposes, we will use some images on this site.

Image Maps

earn how to create clickable regions in an image. Image maps create clickable regions in an image. This is very helpful for a navigation bar. This method is an alternative to slicing up the image into many parts. If you don't want to use Javascript in order to have image rollovers, then image maps is the best route to go.

Place images in your page

Placing images on your site is very easy. Use the codes of this tutorial.

Favorites Icon

With a simple bit of setting up, you can have your page's place in a favorites list marked with a customised icon. Learn how to create, place and initialise your own icon right here.

Pre-Loading Images

Pre-loading images (and in some cases HTML files) speeds up their display by using your browser's cache. This means quick loading when the files are required.

Image Maps

At this stage in your learning you’ve probably seen a few image maps being used around the Internet. They allow you to turn one active image into an image with many links pointing out of it depending on where in the image you click. It’s useful when you’re using graphical navigation.

Image Rollovers

The classic image flip script is one of the most popular pieces of JavaScript on the web. Using this, you can make an image change to a different image on response to the user placing their mouse in a certain position. This is achieved by loading a new image in the original’s place. When used correctly, they can really add a bit of life to a page. You don't need to have any JavaScript experience to use these scripts; it's a simple copy ‘n’ paste job.

Single pixel images

Single-pixel images, of both the transparent and coloured flavours, have a myriad of uses for getting your site to look just like you want it to. They're insultingly easy to make and utilise too.

Thumbnails

You'd think that making a set of thumbnails would be really, really simple, wouldn't you? Well, yeah, it is, but there are a couple of techniques and layout options which I think are important to know.