You can use graphics to make your pages more appealing to you viewers. The smaller the graphics, in terms of Kb the better, because the size of the graphic will determine how long it takes your page to load. The people who visit your site will be more inclined to stay for a few minutes, rather than a few seconds if it doesn't take forever for your page to load.

Graphic files can also be used as links to other sites, or as mere decoration. For example you can get a graphic of a mailbox to use for your maito:. To use an image on your site you will need to use the following tag--<IMG SRC="name of file here" ALT=""> this will allow your graphic to come up on the screen, that is also capable of being printed on paper, should your visitor decide to do so. You can also change the size of your image with HEIGHT and WIDTH attributes. The code looks like this: <IMG SRC="name of file here" ALT="" HEIGHT=? WIDTH=?>---Substitute a number for the question mark, and the image will change size. the larger the number, the larger your image will be. It doesn't affect the size of the image file, just its appearance on the screen. this allows you to use really small images on your site, and make them appear to be big graphics it also maintains the same load time as the original file. Another attribute that you can use is align="" within the quotes you can specify top; bottom, center or middle--which will place your text in the appropriate place beside the image--left and right which will move your image to the left or right in the browser window.

It is recommended that you store your images in a directory labeled images, so that all of your graphics are in the same place. If you decide to follow this recommendation, then you will need to specify the directory in your image tag eg. <IMG SRC="images/name of file here" ALT>.