Chapter 11: Graphics

The Role of Web Graphics
Web graphics provide many purposes for content illustrations, diagrams, quantitative data, analysis and causality, and integration.

Sidebar: The Origins of Information Graphics
Diagrams and information graphics originated in the nineteenth century through mapmaking, scientific publishing, merchandising, engineering and finance. They created the expectation for how publishing media to mix words, diagrams, data graphics, and photographs should look.

Characteristics of Web Graphics
Characteristics of web graphics include color displays, screen resolution, gamma, graphics, and bandwidth.

Graphics File Formats
The most used web file formats are GIF, JPEG, and PNG; they all have bitmap graphics which are easy to create and edit with widely available tools.

Imaging Strategies
Some strategies to use for images are photos as GIFs or JPEGs, diagrams and illustrations as vector graphics, and archiving web graphics.

Images on the Screen
This section highlights the benefits of screen versus print regarding illustrations, photographs, and other imagery.

Graphics Markup
Elements of graphic markups include height and width tags, alt-text, colored backgrounds, and background graphics.

Sidebar: Color Terminology
Computers use the additive color system to produce over 16 million colors on RGB screens.

My Response
Images have been the aspect I have struggled most with in building my web pages through this course, so this chapter was very insightful for me regarding strategies and information on how they should function on web pages.