Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Dynamic Copyright Watermark

About the only effective way of protecting your images on the web is to watermark the images themselves. Any other form of “protection” is useless because the images are downloaded to your visitors’ computers in order for their browser to be able to display the web page and that image file can therefore be easily [...]

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

My Page Takes too long to Load or I am Exceeding Data Transfer Limits

Often a web page takes far longer to load than it needs to. Many web beginners forget to properly optimise the parts of their web page. A properly optimised web page might look identical to one that hasn’t been optimised but may be only a small fraction of the total size and therefore will be [...]

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Replacing Foreground Images

With the text and links in your template set up to what you want, the next step in customising your web page template is to change any foreground images. In the fifth NVU tutorial I go step by step through how to do that.
Replacing Foreground Images

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Can’t Embed Images in Email

I don’t have all the answers and sometimes one visitor to my site is kind enough to help out a prior visitor with an answer to their question.
Here is Luke’s explanation of how to reaolve the problem an anonymous visitor was having where they Can’t Embed Images in Email.

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Linking/Embedding Images in HTML Emails

There are two ways to attach images into an HTML email. You can either place the image on the internet somewhere and link to it from your email or you can embed the image into the email itself. Each of these has advantages and disadvantages as this article discusses. One advantage of linked emails is [...]

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

Getting rid of the IE6 Image Toolbar

At the time I wrote this page IE6 was the latest version and the only one that added this annoying “feature” to images displayed in the browser. As far as I can tell, it is still the only browser with this annoyance as the “feature” appears to have been dropped from IE7. IE6 users still [...]

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Text in Images

When is text not text? When it is a part of an image. As far as most computer programs are concerned text and images are two completely different things and any text that you have placed inside an image is just a part of that image and can’t be read by the program. There are [...]

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Replacing Text in a Graphic

When you have an image that contains text, the text may or may not be all that readable – especially if you have resized the image from its original size. Provided that he text doesn’t overlap anything too complex in the image you should be able to remove hat current text and replace it with [...]

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Text Only Browsing (Turning off Images)

Not everyone uses a fast connection to the internet, there are still some people using dialup connections. Unfortunately some web page creators (they are certainly not webmasters) forget about this and create web pages that are way bigger than they ought to be making their page almost unusable to those on dialup and in many [...]

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

Managing Image Folders

If you have a copy of Paint Shop Pro then keeping all of the image folders on your computer properly organised will be a lot easier.
Managing Image Folders

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Hot Spot Image Rollovers

Here’s a way to save a lot of space on a web page by placing all of your images in the same spot on the page and using JavaScript to determine which of the images is the one that is currently visible.
Hot Spot Image Rollovers

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Dynamic Image Sizing

People use all different screen resolutions on their computers and not everyone has their browser window open full screen. This simple JavaScript will detect the available space in the browser window and select between two different sized versions of the same image depending on whether or not the larger one will fit. That allows those [...]