Introduction | Opening the Program | Different Views | Program Layout | Panels: 1 - 2
The Insert Bar: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 | Creating a New Page | Opening a Page | Multiple Pages with Similar Styles
Page Properties | Text & Text Properties | Checking Spelling | Style Sheets: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
Tables: 1 - 2 - 3 | Images: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 | Links: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5
Publishing: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 | Templates: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 | Collaboration: 1 - 2 - 3
Outside References

Inserting an Image:
Place the cursor where you would like to insert an image (it can even be inside a table's cell). Go to the "Insert" menu at the top of the screen, and click "Image.”

You can also select "Insert Image" in the “Common” tab on the “Insert” panel on the top of the screen.

The "Select Image Source" box should then appear. Browse to where your images are saved, and select the file you wish to import into the web page.

On the far right, you will be able to see an Image Preview of the image you selected. This is useful if you do not quite remember the exact filename you have given to images. Below the image preview, it will list the dimension (in pixels) of the image, the file size, and approximately how long it will take to load on a standard dial-up Internet connection. Click “OK” to insert the image into a page.

Dreamweaver MX 2004 supports three formats of images.

GIF (*.gif") is the format standardized by CompuServe years ago. It's geared towards images that do not need to be viewed with a large amount of colors. The standard GIF file will be of 256 colors or less. This is perfect for the Internet, and more specifically, images that will appear directly on a web page.

JPG or JPEG (*.jpg, *.jpeg) is the format created by the Joint Photographic Experts Group. It is geared towards images of a "real world" or "natural" sense, such as photographs. It generally is of thousands of colors or grayscale. JPEG can hold up to 16 million colors. High quality, larger images stored in a website's "Image Gallery" may be saved as JPEGs.

PNG (*.png), or "Portable Network Graphics," is a lossless image compression (meaning that even when an image is saved as a PNG file, it will look exactly the same as the original file, unlike GIF and JPG). While it is not in extremely wide use, it has its advantages over other formats in that it does not lose any quality. This does mean, however, the filesize will generally be larger.

Once you have selected the image you wish to import, click the "Select" button.

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