Adding Images

After the Link and Target icons on the toolbar come the Image and H. Line icons. Clicking on the H. Line icon gives you, of course, a horizontal line:

Clicking on the Image icon brings up a dialogue box asking you to locate the image, either on the hard drive of the machine you are using or on a floppy disk. There are a number of variables involving size and position of the image that you can select, but it is best simply to choose the image at first and then modify it. The images have to be .gif or .jpg types.

When you choose the image, it will be transferred to the same directory as the page. When you move or publish the page, normally it will take the images along with it to its new directory (e.g. public on the Grove server).

Among the options you have are:

size--experiment to get the right size for your image. "Constrain" will keep the proportions correct and you need only change the height or width.
space around image and borders--it's a good idea to add space around your images. This works better than trying to add line breaks before and after them. The "border" will show up as a highlighted line if the image is linked to another page, etc. (see the arrows at the bottom of THIS page). If you don't like this, set it to 0. An attractive 3-d frame for your picture can be made by placing it in a table.
text alignment and relationship of image to text--this is very tricky! The original idea seems to have been to write short captions that appear to the side of the image. Probably you will want either an image that stands alone or an image with text wrapped to one side or the other. Experiment and study the results.

the relationship of image and text will NOT appear correctly in the Composer. Use the Preview function (File-Browse Page) to see how the page will actually look.
if you want only a certain section of text to appear beside the image, place the cursor at the end of that section and go to Insert--Break Below Image. The next section of text will begin after the image.
if you are having trouble with overlapping images or overlapping images and text, you might want to try arranging the images and their captions in tables.

In checking your work, you will want to alternate between the Composer and a Browser. Remember to save your work each time you make a change, and then reload the file in the Browser to see the changes.

Sources of images: The best images to use are your own drawings/photographs, which you have scanned and saved in .jpg or .gif format. There are also plenty of free decorative images on the net. If you scan a published picture, you should properly have the copyright holder's permission to "re-publish" it in the new format. The same thing is true if you re-use an image belonging to someone else on the Web.

To save an image on the Web, move the cursor over the image and hold down the right mouse button. Select "save image as" and save it to your floppy or other directory.