Images For Your Home Page Images dress up your document. In general, any GIF file you care to use can be included on your home page. The only recommendation I would make is to neither include too many images nor make them too large. Loading images slows things down, especially in the older versions of Mosaic. You need to walk a fine line between making the page attractive and annoying your user.
People get bored if they have to wait to long.
Lisa's picture is in a file called lisa.gif which we have in our home directory. Wherever we place this bit of HTML we'll have a picture of Lisa. The last bit of HTML magic we'll learn is how to link to other sites on the World Wide Web. This is where the real power of the Web shows through. You can increase the interest and value of your home page by pulling in resources from all over the world.