Images and multimedia has become an important part of Web desing since it can make a page easier to read and can give a page a unique style and mood.
Also graphics and multimedia gives a better description because it ehhance the site to better convey the information you are representing.
Although, graphics enrich web pages, it is important to modereateds effectibly the graphics use by adding or editing the graphics. Alternating the space in between text, and editing the size (width and height) of the graphics are important to clarify the foal of a web page.
This is refer as the size of a image which is measure in Kilobutes. This affect on how long it will take to load a images into a web page. (the biger = the longer) Also, it could the size could affect the image resolution and quality.
It is the estimate time used for a web browser to load a web page from a web server.
There are many images file format used on the internet such as JPEN, GIF, PNG, etc. Each one differ on their particular characteristics. For instance GIFs files can be use in animations.
Gif is refer as a iamge file format or extension. This format is used when combining two or more images into a single file and then include a set of instructions on how to display it.
Alternative text is used to add info about an image or as a image replancement even if the image is not display properly. Images should have concise text that emphasize the image's message by describing in detail
Pixels is a single point in a raster image.It is consider as measurement related to your target screen resolution (size and quality of the display)
Image Maps is a list of links in different areas of a graphic or image.
Page Modified by: Christian Lopez, November 2, 2009
