In this excerpt from
The ABCs of Building Web Sites, Charlie Morris
takes the "clueless newby" through the basics of adding images
to a webpage.
As you've probably noticed by now, a Web page can contain not just text,
but pictures as well. Oh, excuse me, they're actually called "images." Now,
slapping a few pix on a page is simple enough, but there are a few little
twists that are quite important. You need to know about these little
gotchas, or else your Web images will loudly scream "Beginner!" to anyone
who visits your pages. Of course, a beginner is exactly what you are, or
you wouldn't be reading this, the Web design tutorial for clueless newbies.
So let's start at the very beginning.