You will also find pictures for free and others for sale on the internet. Have a look through the thousands of pictures available for sale at the Photodisc website (http://www.photodisc.co.uk)

However, you will probably want to use unique graphics on your website so that you can be sure that they reinforce your unique marketing message.

A graphic designer using software like Adobe PhotoShop or Macromedia Fireworks can produce original artwork. Alternatively, you may want to pay an artist or a photographer to produce pictures for you. The photographs and artwork produced can be scanned to make the required graphics files, which you can then insert onto your web pages.

However you source your artwork you must make sure that the web pictures produced are saved as either GIF or JPEG pictures. All graphics-capable browsers support these tow formats and display them without problems. Other formats do exist for the web (TIFF, PCX, BMP, and PNG) but helper applications are necessary for them to be displayed properly.

Note: You should stick mostly to GIF, JPEG and possibly PNG formats for your website.

Inserting Pictures from the Current Web

For ease of use, once you have sourced your pictures, you should import them to the subfolder of your web called Images. Once the pictures have been imported to the Images subfolder, they are easy to insert.

Note: To import images to your web, from the File menu, select Import, Add file and select the pictures you want to import. This may already have been done for you.

• In Page view, place the insertion point where you want the picture to be displayed
• On the Standard toolbar, click Insert Picture from File

OR

• From the Insert menu, select Picture and then select From File...

The Picture dialogue box is displayed.

Picture dialgoue box

• In the list box, double-click the Images folder icon to display the list of image files
• Select an image to insert it (Notice you get a preview of the image file to the right of the list)
• Click OK

The picture is inserted at your insertion point.

Inserting Pictures not in the Current Web

If the pictures you want to use have not been imported to the Images subfolder they can still be used. When you save your web pages you will be asked to save all embedded images to your current web.

• In Page view, place the insertion point where you want the image to be displayed
• On the Standard toolbar, click Insert Picture from File

OR

• From the Insert menu, select Picture and then select From File...

The Picture dialogue box is displayed.

• Click the Select a file on your computer button (in the lower right-hand corner of the dialogue box) to browse your local file system for an image to insert

The Select File dialogue box is displayed.

• Navigate to the folder containing the picture you want to insert
• Select the file you want to insert

Select File dialogue box

• Click OK

The picture is inserted at your insertion point.

Note: When you are prompted to save embedded files to the current web, make sure you save the picture to the Images folder.

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