Seeing as that we’re all still here and didn’t get sucked into a black hole of doom by the Large Hadron Collider, life is pretty good.

DVICE has a collection of 30 images of the LHC itself and to be honest it’s awesome. I’m not saying the generic "Oh awesome!" type of statement, the LHC truly is awesome.

Make sure to go check out the imagery for yourself. This is science in action and definitely worth a look.

Often times when I am doing development or support projects, I have users send me screenshots of their errors. Most people drop the screenshot directly into an email, however some users paste their screen captures into a Word document and send that instead. The problem with the image being embedded in an MS Word document is you can only size the image up to the size of the page in Word. If the user has a high resolution, it makes it almost impossible to see everything.

After much piddling around on my part trying to find a way to select the image and save it to an external file, I gave up and instead found another workaround: copy and paste. By selecting the embedded image, copying it and then opening a graphics program (I use Paint.NET) and pasting it there, you can see the full image. Problem solved.

I hope this tip helps save someone time, because it certainly took me a while to figure out.

Often, the difference between a “blah” looking webpage and a good looking one comes down to the images used. Images are used not only to accent your text, but also for the actual design and layout of your web page. We will get into how to actually design a web page a little later in this course, but for now it is necessary to know how to insert images into your HTML.

In the Introduction to Website Files, I talked about what a JPEG, GIF and PNG image file is. These are image files, and these files are SEPARATE from your HTML file. You use an HTML tag to reference the external image into your HTML document.

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