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Using the Image Swap Behaviour

Extra Hints and Alternatives

This How to..is an aid for using the Image Swap Behaviour using MS Office FrontPage 2003.

The Instructions refer to the Laptop machines in Building 9.107 at Sunbury. Other machines may have different Operating Systems and /or versions of the software

Please note there are a variety of other ways to create web sites , some of these are detailed in the column on the far left.

1.

Open Frontpage
( Start > Programs >Microsoft Office 2003> Microsoft Office Frontpage 2003)

Open Your Site

Open gallery.htm page

To download the image for later use select "Make Available Offline"

A dialogue box should appear like this click "OK."

Select 4 more images and make them Available Offline.

This How to .. is designed to introduce a variety of techniques and processes.
Short cuts always exist but the long way takes in more scenery.

2.

With the gallery.htm page open enter some text on to the page - eg My Gallery

Saving

save your work at least every 5 minutes.

If you have inserted an image you may need to change its name.

Give simple names , leave no gaps and always inlude the file ending eg either ".gif" or ".jpg"

3.

Using the Insert table tool from the tool bar at the top of the page insert a four cell table onto the page

File Types
(these are the two main types of Image format used on the Web, both of them are Compressed file formats that create smaller files for easy display on the internet

.gif
(Graphics Interchange Format) are often cartoons or coloured line drawings, they can also be animated

.jpg
( Joint Photographers Expert Group) is a format used often for photographs

4.

Place the curser in one of the cells
choose Insert > Picture > Clip Art

5.

A new menu bar will appear on the right of the screen. In the area marked "search for" type the category or name of the image you want , I have used "tree"

Select the Go button

A new images should appear in the space below

6.

To insert the image directly into the table cell
move the mouse over the image and click on
the right hand pull down menu

Select "Insert" the image will appear in the cell

Insert a least two images in each cell

7.

Save your work. Click save in the File Menu or select the Disk image from the Tool Menus.

NB You will have to rename your image files when you save them. WebCT does not like [ ] in names. remember to add the ".gif" to the end of the name.

Rename your image files with simple names and have no gaps eg tree3.gif

8.

Select the images you want as the originals, click on delete on the key board.
As you have just saved the images they should be in the images folder of your web site ready to use again.