Windows® 98 Unleashed

Inserting Images, Sounds, and Video

If you feel like enhancing your page with a nice graphic or two, a background sound, or even a video, both HTML and FrontPage Express are up to the challenge. The next few sections show you how to add these multimedia elements to your page.

Adding an Image

If you're looking to make your Web site really stand out from the crowd, you need to go graphical with a few well-chosen images. How do you insert images if HTML files are text-only? As you'll see a bit later, all you are really doing (for each image you want to use) is adding a tag to the document that says, in effect, “Insert image here.” This tag specifies the name of the graphics file, so the browser opens the file and displays the image.

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