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How to Quickly
Save an Image on Your Hard Drive
Teacher: Candice
Pardue
If you come across "free" clip-art,
graphics, photos, etc. that you would like to place on your
web pages, you'll want to save these images on your hard drive
in most cases.
You can link to the graphic from
your site where it is located, but this tremendously slows
your web page loading time. The reason it slows loading time
is because each time your web page loads, it will have to search
for the graphic at a different location than your own page,
which could take 30 seconds or more.
Also, if the site where your
graphic is located becomes discontinued, or if the site's server
is down, your web page will not have the graphic available
any longer.
If you'll take a quick moment
to save the graphic as a file on your hard drive, you'll have
the graphic for keeps, and won't have to worry about delayed
loading time.
A Quick Way to Save the Image
on Your Hard Drive
1. Hold your mouse arrow over
the image, and right click your mouse.
2. Choose "Save Image As".
3. Your hard drive access screen
labeled "Save As" will appear where you can choose the folder
to save the file in. I normally place the image into the same
folder as my web page file. Netscape Composer requires the
image file to be in the same folder as your web page. So, if
I go ahead and do this now, it saves time later.
4. On your "Save As" screen,
you'll notice a "File name:" box. Here is where you'll name
your image file:
myimage.gif or myimage.jpg
The file extension .gif is recommended
for graphics that are not photographs. The file extension .jpg
is recommended for photos for best quality.
Once you've named your image,
click "Save", and you're done.
This simple little step saves
web design time, improves web page loading time, and allows
you to have access to your own graphics.
Saving your images on your hard
drive can be a very useful tool in web design.
About the teacher:
Article written
by Candice Pardue, Online Success for Internet Business. Subscribe
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