Processing a scanned photograph cont. Adding this file to the page is simple, assuming the image file is in the same folder as your Web pages Switch to MS FrontPage Express Open the Web page you wish to place the image in Place the text insertion point at the position in the page you want the picture Click the Insert Image button on the FrontPage Express toolbar The Image dialog box should appear, with the Other Location tab selected Click on thumbnail for larger version Click the Browse. .
Some users are on very slow connections, and they 'surf' the web with images switched off.
Other users are using text only browsers such as Lynx, and some can't see images for the very simple reason that they are blind, and use voice synthesis software to use Web pages. Web pages can have embedded text captions for each image - and these captions will display when the image is not available. The captions are known as 'Alternative Text', from the HTML tag used to embed them in the page. You should Make the text short, but descriptive of the contents Include some text with all images - even if the text is just a space. Alan Flavell has provided an in depth discussion of how to provide Alternative Text captions for images.