Cincinnati Website Design

One of the most simple things that you can do on a web page is add an image. There are two steps to the process. The first is to upload the image that you want to add to your server, and the second is to put the HTML code on the page for the image. Alright, first create your image and save it as either a .jpg or .gif file. These 2 files are usually what’s used on the web, since they are small files and load quickly when visitors download your page in their web browser. I’ve created an image named sample-image.jpg. Now that I have my image, I need to put it on the server. To do this, I use an FTP program. If you don’t have one you can download one for free at www.aceftp.com. Once you download and open ACEFTP you put your server information in, as shown below

Once you are logged in you will see a bunch of folders, double click on the folder named “public_html” and then on the one named “images”. Find the image that you created on your computer and simply drag it and drop it into your images folder in the right-hand window of the FTP program.Next thing to do is go to the file manager and follow the directions that I gave you in my previous post Editing Your Pages With cPanel. You’ll want to enter the following code on your page in the location where you want the image to be

That’s it! Now go to your web page in your favorite browser and your image will be on your page.

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