Images on web sites [courtesy of Dr. Victor Apanius]

Look at the HTML code page, Links, Graphics and Sounds

The basic tag is <IMG SRC="URL"> where the URL points to a graphics file accesible through the web. In this case the tag acts like a link. The URL can also point to a graphics file in your solix account. If you scan an image and save it as filename.jpg, filename.gif or filename.tif, you need to FTP it to your www directory. You need to allow public access to that file. From the unix prompt in the www directory- chmod 644 *.*

The URL for the that file is simply the two-level filename, e.g.

<IMG SRC="my_beautiful_face.jpg">

(notice that unix file names can be long and include underscores)

Have fun but consider this:  Solix is state property that the taxpayers of Florida allow you to use to advance your education in order to sustain the current economic expansion. Putting up your mug-shot is O.K. because it allows your classmates to identify you on-campus. Putting up images of naked people using helpless animals to commit racist crimes is not O.K. Putting up a picture of your little sister holding your pet dog? Mmmmmm...that's tough. Ask yourself- is this how I want my tax-dollars spent. If it's your sister and your dog- Yes, of course. But if you don't know the person then it looks like a vain waste of money. So please be respectful to the people that support FIU and show the level of professionalism that will make you proud.

My advice is to put some personal information, including the family portrait, on your web site now to gain experience. And then replace it with text, images and links that pertain to your presentation. Your solix account vanishes when you graduate (or do not register or fail to pay your parking tickets), so if you want your web site preserved for posterity set one up with an ISP. Add a link to it on your solix web site.

And as a practical matter, URLs with lots of graphics take longer to load (high I/O). It's best to have multiple links to images in place of many images on one page.