The use of graphics can enhance learning whilst also enhancing the look of your web page. Examples Almost all web pages around the world use graphics of some sort. Endorsements Seek endorsements from Arshad Omari, Joe Luca Technical Details Creating graphics can be created with a multitude of packages. From a Microsoft Excel pie chart, to a Lightwave 3-Dimensional image, a Photoshop enhanced image, to using an image scanner. Almost anything is possible, but often creating an effective graphic takes time and patience.
Graphics come in a variety of formats.
Choosing the best format for use within a web page can be difficult. Generally where diagrams which use only a small number of colours the GIF format is used. For photographic level images where a large number of colours are used then JPEG images are used due to their support for 16.8 million colours and the ability to reduce the size of images.