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Inserting Horizontal Rules & Images

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:

  1. Place your cursor at the point at which you want an image inserted.
  2. Choose Image from the Insert menu on the Menu bar.
  3. Select the image file you want to insert. (If the file is not shown, browse to the proper folder to find the image.)
  4. 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.

  1. Select the image by clicking on it once (a black outline appears).
  2. Add the alternative text in the Alt field of the Property Inspector.
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