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The Online Promoters
HTML Tutorial
Chapter 17: Graphics
A web page without images is very boring and visitors will probably not stay very long. There are a couple of clever things that can be achieved with images: Animated Images Images which are in GIF format can be animated. The specific GIF format which allows for animation is GIF89a.
Creating animated GIFs is really very simple. You can find literally hundreds, of not thousands, of animated gifs on the internet. It is just like inserting an image into your web page. This is an example of an animated GIF: 
Tips and Tricks Some tips for creating web-friendly images:
Make your images as small (in terms of file size) as possible. Large images which take a long time to download and display are very irritating to users with slow internet connections. When inserting an image into your HTML page, use the width and height attributes. This causes the browser to display the text on the page before the image has completed downloading, allowing visitors to read the text and giving the impression that the page loads quickly. |