Images are a major part of almost every site. In this chapter, we show you ways to share individual images and collections of images as thumbnails, galleries, and slideshows using WordPress plugins or working in Flash.
Two concepts we will be working with are DRM and XML:
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management or Digital Restrictions Management. DRM is a strategy that limits how people can use your content. Anything you put on a public website is potentially up for grabs, so the best strategy is to share only what you want to be made publicly available. The watermarking of images, the compositing of a copyright (image or text) onto an image, is a common DRM strategy. We will show you how to watermark images using a WP (WordPress) plugin or in Flash.
Knowing how to give proper credit for images that are not your own is also essential. The MLA standard for citing a website includes the following:
We suggest you do not use the carats when publishing online (as it conflicts with...