Using images
Images can enhance a web page and transform it from seemingly endless
acres of dry text into a more interesting experience. Images can:
- provide
a virtual tour of your school
- illustrate lesson plans
- provide vivid examples of pupils' work to share with
visitors to your web site.
Please remember to refer to our
pages on Safety
Issues for advice on using images of children on your
web site.
Unfortunately, images can also provide the biggest stumbling block between
you delivering your sumptuous web site and your intended audience actually
seeing and experiencing it. The text on a page may be only a few kilobytes
in size and is therefore quick to download; the images on that page will
almost always be several times larger in size and will take longer to
download. In short, the fewer or smaller the images you use, the faster
your pages will download.
These pages are intended to help you improve the way in which you use
images on your school's web site. There are tips on how to use thumbnails,
things to avoid when using images,
the difference between GIF & JPEG files,
issues associated with using Macromedia Flash in your pages and how to
use input from digital
cameras & scanners.
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