AOLpress Help

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Insert Images

See the tutorial lesson on images for a hands-on example.

There are several ways to insert an image into a page:

• Choosing the Element Image menu item.
• Using Copy and Paste or drag-and-drop from another page in the same folder.
• Using the right mouse button to drag an icon for an image from a MiniWeb to a page. The image is added to the page. (If you use the left mouse button to drag the image instead, your page is replaced by a blank page containing the image. You must save this page before you can edit it.)

Insert an image as an Element:

1. ElementImage... opens the Image window:
2. Enter the Location of the image. Either:
   • Type a URL or the local file name in the Location field; or
   • Click the Browse button to browse for the file on your local disks or your PrimeHost hosting service directory. Click the OK button when you have selected the file you want.
3. Choose an Alignment option--Top, Middle, Bottom, Left, or Right--to choose how the image is aligned with adjoining text. Text aligns with images as shown below.
   

   You can horizontally align the text next to an image with Format Paragraph.

4. If you want the image to be shown at its actual size, you don't need to type anything in the Width and Height fields. AOLpress will fill in the values automatically.
5. Check the Import Image box if you want to copy the image file to the page's folder. If you do not check this box, the image file stays where it is and the page references the image in the location where it already exists.
   • This box is dimmed if the image is already stored in the page's directory. You don't need to copy it since it is already there.
   • You cannot uncheck this box if the image is stored on your computer's disk and the page is on a Web server. The image will be copied from your local disk to the server automatically because people accessing your page on the server cannot see image files on your computer's disk.
6. Uncheck the Show Link Border box if this image is going to be linked to some location and you don't want a rectangular border shown around the image.
7. You can click the Rel button to change the reference to the image to a relative URL. If the reference is already a relative reference, you can click the Abs button to change the reference to an absolute reference.
8. In the Description box, type the text you want to appear instead of the image for readers using browsers that do not display graphics.
9. Click OK, and the image appears where the cursor was positioned.

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