Unit 3:  Creating the Site

Changing the background
Backgrounds can be a solid color, a pattern, or an image.  The important thing to keep in mind is to keep a good contrast between the backgrounds and the text   People who are color deficient my be visiting your site. Keep readability in mind as well.

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Adding Graphics
Any graphic can be added to the web page that is a GIF or a JPEG.  A GIF contains 256 colors and can be still or animated.   A JPEG uses millions of colors and take up more space than a GIF.  Images for your page can be scanned in, taken with a digital camera, or downloaded from a web site.  The images we are using are freeware.  In general, images belong to the creator of the web site.

Graphics
Adding Tables
Tables are a great way to help align text and graphics on your web page.  The tables can have a border to separate items or can be set to have no border but align the columns.

Tables

Adding Links
Links are a quick way to connect:

There are also Absolute and Relative links.  Relative links will like a page in the same relative location.  This is done by browsing to the file.  Absolute links will link to a specific URL and are typed in the file location box.  No matter what, that link will always go to that specific page.

In web site design, Relative links are preferred.  That way, as you upload your site to a remote server, all the links will continue to work because files are in the same relative location.
Links

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