Web Design and Management. As the sayings go, every picture tells a story, one picture is worth 10,000 words, and color brightens everything. Images and color add much to the Web, and contribute greatly to the popularity of the medium. Well placed graphics, and a good use of color, can please the eye and enhance the content on a Web site.
Images are large files, they consume bandwidth , causing pages to load slowly.
Images also can detract from a Web page- providing little or no function while cluttering a page and confusing users. Color, similarly, can be used to excess, damaging the efffectiveness of a page. Like so many things on the Web, both color and image rendering can vary from platform to platform. In this workpad we'll discuss some of the fundamentals of displaying color and images on a Web page. In the next workpad we'll discuss ways to obtain, alter, and create images.