Appendix C:

ADDING IMAGES WITH NETSCAPE

Follow these instructions to add images to the text boxes associated with works of art in your Art Collector sets on ArtsConnectEd. Access your collection in Netscape and select the text box where you will place the image. Under the "Communicator" pull down menu at the top of your screen select "Navigator" to open a new browser window. You should have two browser windows open. Use the second browser window to find the image that you want to place in the text box in Art Collector. You can choose an image on ArtsConnectEd or an image on any other Internet site. Pay close attention to the size of the image you
select because that is the size of the image that will appear in your text box.

Once you have found the image in the size you want, put your cursor on the image and hold your mouse button down. A pop up window will appear with a menu on it. Scroll down and select the "Copy this Image Location" item. Netscape will copy the URL of the image onto your computer’s clipboard. (If you didn’t know your computer had a clipboard and want to learn more about it, look it up in your Mac Help menu.) URL stands for "Universal Resource Locator" and is the address of the image you have selected. Not just web pages have URLs - so do images and other objects that live on the World Wide Web. Copying the image’s URL means that you will tell Art Collector to go the URL you specify and display the image that is associated with the URL. This is an important distinction – you are not copying an image and pasting it into Art Collector, you are copying an image’s location.

Close the browser with the image in it and click your mouse on the browser that contains the text box where you want the image to appear in your Art Collection. When your cursor is in the text box, hold down the Command button with the little apple on it to the left of your space bar and hit the "v" key to paste the image’s URL into your text box.

Next you will write a little HTML script that tells your browser to go to display the image that is at the location you have just specified. HTML stands for "Hyper Text Markup Language" and is the "language" used to create web pages. Place your cursor at the beginning of the URL (before the "http") and type a "<" by holding down the shift key and hitting the comma key. Next type "img src=" At the end of the string of HTML place a ">" by holding down your shift key and hitting the period key. Your complete script should look like this:

<img src=http://www.acme.org/images/14059g.jpg>

Hit the "Use this Text" button and you will see the two images displayed side by side in Art Collector! Once you publish your collection everyone else who looks at it will also see the two images displayed side by side. Congratulations! You can add text to the box that contains the image by typing text before or after the string of HTML script you have written.