Grabbing graphics from the Web

You've found the perfect image on another person's Web page. Did you know you can save that image to your hard drive? With Netscape, it's easy to do. This lesson will show you how and link you to some online image libraries. Don't forget to ask permission!

You can find out more about how to get and use graphics at the Beyond Filamentality graphics tutorial.

For this lesson, you'll insert the fountain image shown on the right.

Step

Action

Result

You should see a menu something like this:

Select
Save this Image As...
from the pop-up menu.

When prompted, save the file in the same folder as your html file.

Now that you have the image file, insert it by clicking the
insert image
button.

You'll see a dialog box that allows you to add a text alternative to your image, align your image so text can wrap aroung it, and pad your image with white space.

Insert your image and browse your page.