problem in web page

[desperateboy]

hi
If I need to create a pic to use as a button what program do I do it in, and how do I save it (meaning will it be a .jpeg or .gif)?

The problem I am having is that when I am creating something in PowerPoint or word, then save it... it saves the WHOLE page with my graphic within the page. I want to just be able to save whatever graphic (i.e. button) I create.During net surfing ,I have seen many web website hosting design company's website hostings,looking great.I have taken some idea from designing website hostings...........

Please help! Thank you so MUCH!

[DavidAllen]

If you do it in Word - and then save the file as a web page (html) - the pictures will be saved seperately for you as gif

[esnail]

you'll need a graphics creation application like photoshop. Good free alternatives are paint.net or artweaver, if you want something approaching the power of photoshop then there's Gimp - but it has a steep learning curve. All of these are free and will allow you to optimize your images for the web.

[jc8654]

Sometimes if you want to make buttons there are also several online tools which can be used for this. Search something like 'online button creator' in a search engine and you should get the relevant results.

[military-world.net]

<a href="URL"><img src="../your pic .gif.or.jpg" width="76" height="19"></a>

[jc8654]

Originally Posted by military-world.net

<a href="URL"><img src="../your pic .gif.or.jpg" width="76" height="19"></a>

To be standards compliant you'll probably need an alt tag in there so something like:

<a href="URL"><img src="../your pic .gif.or.jpg" width="100" height="19" alt=""></a>

or

<a href="URL"><img src="../your pic .gif.or.jpg" width="100" height="19" alt="Link1"></a>

The alt tag is what will show up when you leave your mouse over an image.