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Part II
Designing and Crafting Basic Pages
Select your lowsrc file by clicking the file icon next to the Low Src text box in the Image Property
inspector. The same criteria that apply to inserting your original image also apply to the
lowsrc picture.
One handy lowsrc technique first proportionately scales down a large file in a graphics-
processing program. This file becomes your lowsrc file. Because browsers use the final
image’s height and width information for both the lowsrc and the final image, your visitors immedi-
ately see a blocky version of your graphic, which is replaced by the final version when the picture is
fully loaded.
Working with alignment options
Just like text, images can be aligned to the left, right, or center. In fact, images have much more flex-
ibility than text in terms of alignment. In addition to the same horizontal alignment options, you
can align your images vertically in nine different ways. You can even turn a picture into a floating
image type, enabling text to wrap around it.
Horizontal alignment
When you change the horizontal alignment of a line—from left to center or from center to right—
the entire paragraph moves. Any inline images that are part of that paragraph also move. Likewise,
selecting one of a series of inline images in a row and realigning it horizontally causes all the images
in the row to shift.
In Dreamweaver, the horizontal alignment of ...