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Image Information

Whenever you use an image in a blog post or on one of your webpages for this class, you MUST provide Image Information for each image. If you do not do this, your assignment will not be counted as complete and you will lose points. So please make sure you understand what kind of Image Information you need to provide!

Image Information. Here is what is required:

Title or caption: At a minimum, your Image Information must include a title or caption. If the image does not already have a title or caption, you should make up a good descriptive caption of your own. In addition, if you can give any more information about the artist or creator of the image, the year when the image was created, where the image comes from, please include that also!

Web source: Link text and link. You need to provide a link to the web source that you used for the image, along with some kind of good link text. The link must lead to a webpage; please do NOT link directly to an image file, and do NOT link to search engine results. The link text should provide some kind of descriptive information about the source, such as the name of the website or the name of the specific webpage; please do NOT just display the web address as your link text.

Every image you use in a blog post or a webpage must have this Image Information. The only exception would be for images you have created yourself (photos, drawings, etc.). If you are using an image you have created, you still need to provide a title for the image, giving credit to yourself as the author, along with any other useful information, but you do not need to provide a web source for images you have created and published on the Internet yourself.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT LINK TEXT: The link text must be something useful, not just the URL.

Example of a link text - GOOD - the text lets you know where the link goes:
Picture of a shark. Web Source: Phil Emery's Photo Show

Example of an URL as text - BAD - the link is ugly to look at and doesn't let you know where you will go:
Picture of a shark. Web Source: http://www.caligari.com/Gallery/OneManShow/PhilEmery/shark.asp?Cate=GOneManShow

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT LINKS: The webpage link MUST be a link to an actual webpage (usually the file name ends in html or htm). You can NOT just link to the image file (jpeg, gif, etc.).

Example of a webpage link - GOOD - click on the link and you will see that it goes to a webpage:
Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1939. Web Source: Time Magazine: Charlie Chaplin.

Example of an image file link - BAD - click on the link and you will see that it goes to an image file, not a webpage:
Charlie Chaplin, Modern Times, 1939. Web Source: chaplin.jpg.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SEARCH ENGINES: Using Google Images or Yahoo Images or some other image search engine is a great idea - but remember that the webpage link MUST be a link to an actual webpage, and NOT to the search engine results.

Example of a webpage link - GOOD - click on the link and you will see that it goes to a webpage:
The Red Baron. HistoryNet website.

Example of a search engine results link - BAD - click on the link and you will see that it goes to Google, not to the actual webpage:
The Red Baron. Google.

It's usually easy to tell you are dealing with a Search Engine result because the URL web address will be insanely long, like this:

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://media.historynet.com/images/red-baron.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.historynet.com/wars_conflicts/world_war_1/3027691.html&h=241&w=335&sz=12&hl=en&start=8&um=1&tbnid=sixZtUMLX932TM:&tbnh=86&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dred%2Bbaron%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN