Putting images into your Web page:
Web pages often include graphics images, usually GIF or
JPEG files. One potential problem is to use images that
one has the right to use. U.S. copyright law does apply
to photos and images. Commercial companies and many
artists are often very particular about who uses the
images that they created. Always be sure that you have
the right to use any graphics file. Get permission in
writing, if possible, for anything that is not in the
public domain.
If you have a GIF file in the same directory as your
HTML file, you can include the image in your document
by using something like:
There are a number of small GIF files on the Linux server
in the directory /www/icons. To use one of them, say
burst.gif, use:
Note that this URL starts at the root of the web page area
for the web server on the current machine.
To see the available icon images, point your browser at:
http://cis.stvincent.edu/icons/icon.sheet.gif
This will show you all of the available GIF images on
one page. The names are also shown so that you know
what filename to use.
There are also smaller versions of these images. These
are in the directory /www/icons/small. The filenames
appear to be the same. Thus to use the small version
of burst.gif you might try:
You can also include an image in a link, so that one
can click on the image to jump somewhere -- either within
the current web page or to another page. Here is an example:
Return to the top
This assumes that there is something like the following
at the top of this web page. Of course, the anchor tag
section doesn't have to be inside of a header of level 2
or any header at all.