Image manipulation
Almost all websites have images, and to make your site more attractive to viewers you too should use images to enhance your pages.
There are tons of free non-copyrighted images of everything on the 'net, and it should not be difficult to find what you are looking for.
Of course you can also use your own digital photos.
Size and size
Iit is unlikely that the images you want to use on your site have excactly the right size, so you need a tool to resize them. You may also want to crop an image and use only part of it.
The "size" we're talking about here is the physical size of the image, for instance 4 x 4 centimeters or 2 x 2 inches.
There is, however, another very important "size" you have to consider when using images. A large and detailed image have a large file size, and can take a long time to load in the viewers browser.
You need to decrease the quality of the image so it will load faster, but the image will not look bad on a monitor. This is because digitized images normally have a much higher quality (resolution/dots per inch) than a monitor can display.
Finding the right balance between an image's quality and file size is called optimizing the image.
Image manipulation programs
Did you download "Fireworks"?
Fireworks is a good image manipulation program for resizing, cropping and optimizing images.
You can use the program for 30 days as trial software.
There are many websites offering free tutorials for Fireworks, just search for "fireworks tutorials" in Google.
If you want to download free image manipulation software we suggest you have a close look at these programs:
Paint.Net, theGIMP or IrfanView
Both Fireworks and the other programs mentioned on this page have built-in help files and online forums where you can get help if you need it.
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Now it's time to start putting it all together. Populate your webpages with text and images, and make sure you use links between all the pages in your site. The links will make it easy for your viewers to navigate your website.