Netscape Composer Tutorial
by Andy Rush

Adding graphics to a web page is a way to really dress things up. Graphics can also serve to provide much more information than text ever could. You know what they say about a picture being worth a thousand words. When it comes to the web, that statement can be taken literally. Graphical images take up more file space than text does. Remember, web pages are being transferred over the web. That means the text and the pictures are being sent from one computer to another, and the graphics take up much more size in terms of bytes or kilobytes. So make your graphics count. Why? Because people with slow modems will see that the text of a web page will show up much quicker than the pictures on that page. The more pictures, the longer the wait for the whole page to appear.

Netscape Composer provides an easy way to add images to web pages. Images need to be in either Gif or Jpeg format. To add an image click on the Insert Image button.

The Image Properties dialog box appears. Click on the Choose File button.

Navigate to where the picture on your machine is and select it.

Click on the Open button and the image will appear in the document. It is a good idea to save any images in the same directory as the html page you are editing.