These instructions assume you have a suitable comfort level with choosing and using software to make a Web page and that you understand or have experience with Steps 1 through 3 of Making your Web page. If not, please review those steps before trying the advanced functions described here. Print this page so you can have it handy when you're not connected to the Sympatico service.

Your Sympatico personal Webspace is an effective way to share information about yourself, your family, your business, your hobbies, and anything else you might want to add. It can be a bit complex when it comes to adding photographs, art, clipart and animated images to your Web pages.

There are three steps involved: preparing the image, referencing the image in your Web page, and uploading the image to your Webspace.

1. Preparing Images
   

   First, you must prepare your image prior to uploading it to your personal Webspace. If you have a photograph already in electronic format that you wish to include on your Web page, it's best to convert it to JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format. If you have an image from a clip art collection or a scanned imaged in TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), EPS (Encapsulated PostScript file) or BMP (Bitmapped) format, you should convert it to a GIF (Graphics Interchange Format). If you're unfamiliar with these terms, you can find out about them at the O'Reilly Dictionary of Terms.

   There are several applications you can use to do this. Adobe Photoshop, PhotoPaint, PaintShop Pro and others will easily convert graphical images into formats suitable for adding to your Web pages.

   Whichever program you have or decide to use, use the following settings as guidelines to optimize your graphics for displaying on the Internet:

   Note: These are guidelines only. It's really only trial and error that gives you a sense of what works best in each situation.

   To prepare an image in GIF format:
   

   Using a image manipulation application, save your image as an indexed colour, 6 bit, 16 colour, adaptive palette, diffusion, gif89a format image file.

   To prepare an image in JPEG format:
   

   Using a image manipulation application, save your image as a jpeg file.

   To find out where to get downloadable image manipulation applications on the Internet, visit our Resources page. You will also find references there to further online instructions and traditional publications to help you with working with images.

2. Referencing the image in your Web page
   

   Your Web page creation program should have a feature that lets you easily add an image to a Web page. For your information, the HTML code for including an image is the following:

   <img src="sample.gif" height="XX" width="XX">

   where XX are numbers indicating the height and width of the image in pixels.

3. Uploading an image to your personal Webspace
   

   You must upload both the image and the Web page that you want the image to appear on. First, read our general information on uploading files with FTP software.

   There are specific upload instructions from your Sympatico service provider: Click to select Alberta BC TEL Bell IslandTel MTS MTT NBTel Northern TEL NorthwesTel NewTel SaskTel Tôlôbec