Images that you include on your Web pages can be simple line art or color photographs. You can use an image for visual effect alone, or make it function as a clickable link. Make an image interlaced so that your audience can see more of the image as it's downloading onto their computers. Add a single transparent color to an image to make parts of it (like the background) disappear. You can even use an image to create a background pattern for your Web page. (For more information, see Using an image for the background.)

Images that you include on your Web page must be in one of the two standard formats used on the Web: JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) or GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). Claris Home Page converts image files in other formats to GIF for you.

Claris Home Page comes with a library of GIF images to use on your Web pages. You can also create your own libraries of images. For more information, see Using Claris Home Page libraries.

When you're deciding where to include images on your Web pages, keep in mind that some browsers don't support images and sometimes people turn off image loading in their browsers. You can specify an alternative label that appears in place of the image in these cases.

Web pages with large image files take longer to download. As you add images to your Web page, you can check how long it will take browsers to download. For more information, see Using the Statistics window.

When you're ready to upload your pages to the Web, you can use Claris Home Page to consolidate all the referenced image files into one folder. See Consolidating media files for more information.