A gif may be an image or a picture (they are both really images but we separate them for distinction and categorization).  It may be a static image as the above HOJC Logo is or it may be animated and move.  Here are some help with gifs.

Warning:  Because there are a number of animated gifs on this page, you may loose connection frequently.  Just refresh your browser.

Size Considerations

One of the main thing to know about gifs is that the bigger they are, the more time it takes to download it and the slower the page load response time.  Anything less than 100 KB will download fast.  Above that, use the gif with discretion.

Most gifs you find on WebPages, someone spent hours creating and they are copyrighted.  If you use a copyrighted gif (an if it doesn't say free gif on the page, it isn't free), then you must ask the owner's permission to use it.  There are some sites on the web that do have free gifs that you can use on your own page.  These are listed after the free ones shown below.

To add a gif to your website:  click on the gif, select save, select directory and name to save it to, then save.  You now have the gif in your directory.  For best use of gif images (because you invariably reuse images time after time), save all your images to a specific directory.  By having your images in one directory, you don't have to hunt through many directories for a specific image.  

These are some of the Free gifs we have on file (note: these are for non-profit use only.  Please refer to the sites below the gifs to see if they are free to business).   By the way, there is a site that sends free animated gifs daily that you may want to sign up to (The Animation Library).

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If you find a gif that is not Free to Personal WebPages on this link, please email us and we will take it off.  

Listing of Free to Personal WebPages Links (Our favorites).  HOJC has not been to all categories in all sites and does not promote any page over the other.  These links should be used for the Glory of God:

To hyperlink a picture, do it the same way you hyperlink an image:

In Frontpage, right click on the image and select picture properties.  Type in the mouse over text you want to show  in the Alternative Representation Text.  Then under Default Hyperlink Location, type in or select the "Browse".  If browsing, at the right of the URL are some icons.  

• Use the world with a magnifying glass to go out to the internet browser and find the page you want (be aware that once you find the page, action stops.  Close your browse and the URL that was in your browser will be in the URL before the icon); 
• Select a file in the area above the URL area (this is your website) if the link if not on the current page.
• Do NOT Click on the file to link to a file on your own computer.  If you select a file on your computer, when you turn your computer off, your link will fail (and you don't want people accessing your home computer anyway.  To get a file from your home computer to link in a webpage, open the Windows Explorer that shows all the files on your home computer, right click the file you want and select copy.  Select the directory in FrontPage that you want to copy the file to (folderlist view) and right click select paste.  Now you can select this file above the URL area.  Do note that when you update your file on your computer, the one on your webpage will not be updated. 
• The envelope is for people to send you an email.  Click on the envelop and type the entire email address you want in the textbox, then save.
• The White paper page at the far right is a new page that is not created on your page.  When you click on this page, select the type of page you want, you have a brand new page to make and save.  Be aware that the page you started from is not saved at this point, you must go back and save it to have the link to your new page.  You can open files on your own computer and copy and paste the material into this page (but sometimes there are formatting problems you must correct - like additional spaces).
• To link to something on the same page, first you must Insert/Bookmark by selecting the thing to link to, On the Insert menus, click Bookmark, say ok to select what they think the name should be or type your own then ok.  Now select the item that will link to your bookmark, under the URL is a box for bookmark, pull down the textbox and select the bookmark you chose.  Note: You can link to other pages bookmarks by having both pages open at once (if the bookmarked page is closed, no bookmarks will show up in the bookmark box).  

Then in the Target Frame click on the pencil, select "Same Frame" then save that (OK) then save (OK) the picture properties.  You now have a link.  To test it, put your cursor over the link in Frontpage, it will say "Use control-click to follow a hyperlink" so you know that it worked.

In Microsoft Publisher, ask sherry.