To Do

You should get two or three images ready now so you can try putting them on your own pages as you follow along with this hour.

If you have some image files already saved in the GIF or JPEG format (the filenames will end in .gif or .jpg), use those. Otherwise, you can just grab some graphics I've put on the Internet for you to practice with. Here's how:

1. Enter the following address into your Web browser:

   http://24hourHTMLcafe.com/hour10/images.htm

   You should see a page with four images of hats and stars at the bottom.

2. Click Sample Images. You should see a magic hat and some stars.
3. Save each of the graphics to your computer's hard drive by right-clicking each image (or holding down the mouse button if you use a Macintosh computer), and then selecting Save Image As from the pop-up menu.

   Put the graphics on your hard drive in whichever folder you use for creating Web pages.

4. As you read this chapter, use these image files to practice putting images on your pages. (It's also fine to use any graphics you created while reading the previous chapter.)

Note

At the 24-Hour HTML Café, you'll find live links to many graphics and multimedia hotlists and hot sites, where you can find ready-to-use graphics. To access these links, go to http://24hourHTMLcafe.com/hotsites.htm.

The familiar Web search engines and directories such as yahoo.com, hotbot.com, and infoseek.com can become a gold mine of graphics images just by leading you to sites related to your own theme. They can also help you discover the oodles of sites specifically dedicated to providing free and cheap access to reusable media collections.