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Painting the Web
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Painting the Web

by Shelley Powers
May 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
656 pages
17h 41m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 4. The Web As Frame

Once your picture is just right, it's time to put it into a page and let it shine. Editing a photo is only half the fun when it comes to publishing photos on the Web. The other part is the presentation, and just as with the tools and technologies associated with photo editing, you have a lot of options for how you can display your photos.

If a photo is meant for story illustration, you can embed it directly into the text, and we'll look at clean approaches to do this. However, you can also add a photo "filmstrip" at the bottom of the story, or to the side—even a link to a slideshow.

Speaking of slideshows, some of the same tools you use to edit the photo can also be used to generate either HTML or Flash slideshows; or you can use any number of freely available slideshow packages that are, more or less, drop and play. The functionality can also be implemented using JavaScript for a more modern "Ajaxy" feel.

Rather than a slideshow, you can also publish your photos in a more formal gallery. Again, some photo editors and workflow tools can generate galleries, or you can use server-side software that manages the gallery functionality for you. You can even embed a small piece of code into your web page and have it alter the photo that's displayed as part of a header, background, or sidebar item each time a person accesses a page.

Regardless of how you publish your photos online, one issue related to all the techniques is how large your published photo should be, ...

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