Re: My turn to ask silly questions

Hello Ice Wolf!

>I use Arachnophilia as my HTML editor. Without getting into a discussion of
>editor capabilities, can someone please tell me how to left-justify an image
>on my web-site, and then put text on the right side?

In your image tag, you need an alignment attribute; e.g. 
<.img src="./images/yourgraphic.gif" height="##" width="##" border="##"
align="left">
Your text should appear just to the right of the image and flow down.

>Or do I need to put it in an invisible table?

You could use a table, but there is less code to write using the above
technique. On the other hand, it depends upon how precisely you want to
place the elements on your page.

>Another question: why are jpgs better than bmps or gifs?

JPG's are not necessarily "better" than GIF's...the deciding factor is
usually content of the image. One rule of thumb is, text=GIF, photo=JPG.
Again, you must use your own best judgement here. Normally, given the same
graphic, JPG will require more disk space than GIF.

>Yet another question: is it better to resize an image with a graphics
>program, or change the size with the HTML code?

This gave me a chuckle...a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away,) I
tried to use HTML to resize images. You can quickly see that it is better
to resize the image in your graphics software. Coding the "resize" in your
HTML will usually distort the image, depending on how radically you have
"resized" it.

>--IceWolf

Good luck, and Happy HTMLing.

Mike

Michael Jon Muehlendorf
Freedom Systems Group
email: mailto:coyote(at)scenic-bluffs.com
www: http://www.scenic-bluffs.com/fsg/

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