To the graphical-designer crowd, images are the whole purpose of the Web, and they can’t imagine that the Web ever existed without them. Actually, when HTML was first developed, it was a text-only medium, and the use of inline graphics was a later addition. The innovations that made the Web a novel, useful medium were not the graphical interface of browsers or Web page layouts, but rather, the creation of a universal addressing syntax for net-wide resources (the URL system), the creation of a simple hypertext language allowing documents with embedded links (HTML), and a simple protocol to transmit these documents (HTTP). All of these things came about prior to the existence of graphical browsers. Believe it or not, one can actually create an interesting, useful Web site with few or no graphics — look at this one for instance! But most of you will want to add some pictures along with your text, and that’s fine. Just follow a few pointers to make your site work best for both the graphical and non-graphical browsers out there.

Syntax of IMG tag:

<IMG SRC=”gfx/yourfriend.gif” WIDTH=96 HEIGHT=64
ALT=”[Picture of your friend]“>

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