Image Dialog Button

Inserting images in your webpage using the Image dialog is cool. Just hit the button above, choose what drive and folder your image is in, and then pick your image from the list. The Default Folder this opens into is ..\Graphics\buttons, subsequent openings of the image dialog opens it to the last folder you were in the last time. You can change the default folder in Preferences to whichever folder suits your needs.

After you have picked your image you may want some other information included with your image. You can now place your ALT= text in the appropriate space. (This is that little tag that pops up when people touch your image, or what shows up on the webpage if the images are turned off.) Some audio tools for the visually impaired also use the ALT= text to describe the image.

You can now also define the BORDER thickness. Zero is the most common, and this is used for linking your image to another site or page. Any numbers above zero will be the size of the border that surrounds your image when it is a link... choose zero and there is no box.

Speaking of LINKS, this of course is the next space to fill out if you choose to do so. This will make your image a link to another page or site by placing the appropriate URL in this space. You can also use the drop down box to look at the last pages you have linked to and use them as links to make it even quicker.

Now just hit Cool and this information will be placed in your new or existing webpage that you have open in the work space.

This is an example of what the HTML would look like without the link:

<img src="yourimage.gif" width="150" height="100" alt="This is your text" border="0">

Adding Images from your Hard Drive

You can Also DRAG and DROP image locations from the left pane directly to your open page.

Watch the size of your images !

Your total size for images should not exceed 50K for each page you create. If it takes to long to load, visitors may hit the Back button and never see your site.

Viewing and Converting images using the Image Companion

 Image Companion Button

Now, every time you want to view an image. Simply select it in the file selection panel and a thumbnail image preview will appear at the bottom. You can also open it in the Image Companion. The most common way of accessing the Image Companion is when you "right-click" on an image file (From the file selection panel on the left-side of the Editor) and choose Open In Image Companion.

To find all the all available button GIFs in the HTML Editor, find the graphics/buttons folder in the File Control tab. Right Click on the image filename and select Open In Image Companion.

From within the Image Companion you can open other images, place the image tag within your current webpage, rotate the image, change the imageÆs color depth, and change the imageÆs format (.jpg, .gif, .png, etc.), and apply many special effects to your image.