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Giving
Credit for use of Images or Other Material
If you use images or other media on any of your website,
you should credit your sources just as you would any quotations
or paraphrases that you use in a paper.
The use of images in a student project done for a class probably
represents fair use, though if you are asked to remove a graphic
from one of your sites, you should do so promptly.
Fair use, however, is not an excuse of plagiarism. Always give
credit and appropriate citations for any materials you use in a
website. Janice Walker has an excellent
tutorial on this topic. The good people at Florida, also have
a page on giving
credit for images.
To the best of my knowledge, there are no established conventions
for giving credit. Here are four options your can use:
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Give credit on the page.
Often an easy solution. If you follow this approach, keep
the reference small and out of the way. Crediting on the page
works best when you have a few very important images in your
site. You can give your credit below the image as in the example,
or you can credit images at the bottom of the page.
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Image source: http://www.ilstu.edu |
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Give Credit in an image source page
Probably the easiest and most straightforward solution, if
it fits with the rest of your site. (Note: The example link
doesn't go anywhere.)
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Image
Sources |
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Give credit in the status bar
You can use a Dreamweaver behavior to display the credit
in the status bar at the bottom of a browser window. When
the mouse hand rests on your image, its source appears at
the bottom of the window. We will cover behaviors later in
class, but I will help anyone who wishes to implement this
solution now.
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Give Credit in a link title
Links titles work in Netscape 6 and Internet Explorer. When
you rest the mouse finger on a link, the title pops out. The
downside of this approach in Dreamweaver is that you have
to add the code by hand. View source and search for 'title="Image'
to see the code for the example to the right. Note that I
used the "#" sign to create a faux link so I could
create the link title.
See a simple example of link
title code.
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