Monday, December 22, 2008

Introduction

We’ve all heard it said that a picture tells a thousand words,and it’s definitely one cliché that’s endured for a reason.Images are a fantastic means of presenting information in ways that text cannot, which is why the marriage of web sites and images is a match made in heaven. From graphs and charts to photography and illustration, images are just as much a functional tool for the web designer as an aesthetic one.

In this chapter, we’ll look at some of the most popular ways images are used on web sites. We’ll work through the markup required for different manifestations of image galleries, for the design of web sites predominantly concerned with image presentation. We’ll also learn about the issues of presentation and markup of contextual images, for sites that involve a combination of text and image.

As we’ll see, there’s more to images than meets the eye!

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