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Adding a Graphic or an Animation to a Page

You can place a wide variety of graphics on your Web pages -- from simple line art to color photographs. With wwwART, you can create original graphics or make changes to existing ones. Web Explosion includes 2000 pre-made images you can add to your pages. You can use WebPainter to animate a graphic and add that animation to your page in the same way that you add any other graphic. Graphics can be used for illustration only, or they can be clickable links that take users to other places and sites.

To add a graphic to a Web page, follow these instructions:

  1. Open Claris Home Page, if it's not already open.
  2. Open the page to which you want to add the graphic.
  3. Choose Edit Page from the Window menu.
  4. Click where you want the graphic to appear.
  5. Choose Image from the Insert menu.
  6. In the dialog box that appears, locate and select the graphic you want to use, then click Open.
  7. Resize the graphic, if necessary.
  8. If you want, change the way text is aligned around the graphic.
  9. Choose Save from the File menu.
  10. Choose Preview in Browser from the File menu to see how the graphic looks.
  11. If you want to use the graphic as a link, see the instructions for creating links to another location on the same page, another page in your Web site, or a location on the Internet.

Tips

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Make sure all the graphics files for your Web site are located in the same folder.

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To maintain the proportions of a graphic as you resize it, press the Option and Shift keys as you drag the graphic's bottom-right corner.

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Graphics take longer to download than text; larger graphics take longer to download than smaller graphics. When users are viewing your page, it may take a moment for graphics to appear.

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You can learn more about adding graphics to a Web page and resizing graphics by using the Claris Home Page online help system.

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You can use the wwwART tutorial to learn how to create and modify graphics with wwwART.

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You can learn more about animating graphics by using the WebPainter tutorial.

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If you're using an animation created or modified with WebPainter, you need to "export" the file so that the browser software will recognize the file as an animation. To do so, follow these steps: When you're finished working with the animation in WebPainter, choose Export from the File menu, then choose Animated GIF file from the submenu. Make your other selections in the dialog boxes that appear. Keep the ".GIF" suffix to the file name and save the animation in your graphics folder in your project folder.



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