lecture five

images

Now we've explored the issue of page structure, we can start thinking about enhancing the look of the web site on the screen. The next step is to incorporate images into our web pages. Images are simple to use, but also easy to use badly; good web site imagery depends on not only the placing of the image on the screen but other concerns such as image type, size and accessibility. You will learn about all these things in this lesson.

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There is no pre-reading required for this lecture.

online materials

• Image types
• Checking image size
• The <img> tag
• The alt attribute
• Image height and width
• Images as links
• Thumbnails
• Background images

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Before moving on to lecture 6 you should check your progress with the self-test.