Inserting a
Horizontal Rule
A horizontal
rule is simply a horizontal line across the page. Place
your cursor at the location at which you want the horizontal
rule and choose Horizontal Rule from the Insert menu
or press the Insert Horizontal Rule button on the objects
palette.
Inserting images
Two types of
file formats are almost universally supported by visual
browsers: GIF and JPEG. Any image in one of these formats
can be placed on a Web page. If you have a graphic you would
like to use and it is in some other format (e.g., BMP, TIFF,
PICT, etc.), convert the image to GIF or JPEG using a graphic
converter program (several shareware programs are available
for download from graphics Web sites) or a graphics program
(e.g., PhotoShop, Image Composer, PhotoHouse, PaintShop
Pro, etc.).
Unlike with other
software applications such as Word and PowerPoint, images
inserted in Web pages are not stored with the document when
the file is saved. They remain separate from the HTML document
and must be independently published to the Web server. As
separate files, they are referenced by file name in your
Web document. Because of these references, it is always
a good rule of thumb to save a new document before adding
any images to it.
Insert an image
as follows:
- Place your
cursor at the point at which you want an image inserted.
- Choose Image
from the Insert menu on the Menu bar.
- Select the
image file you want to insert. (If the file is not shown,
browse to the proper folder to find the image.)
- Click Open.
The image appears
immediately. Again, the image is not stored as part of the
page but remains a separate file that must be uploaded to
the Web server separately.
Every image should
have an alternative text associated with it for use by non-graphical
browsers. The text should provide meaningful information
about the purpose of the image on the page.
- Select the
image by clicking on it once (a black outline appears).
- Add the alternative
text in the Alt field of the Property Inspector.
