What's the best way to add an image to a page? [closed]

Question

I'm wondering if there's a standard, nice way to add a picture - icons for example - to a page. These images should be static (= non-changing), which means that they don't depend on something else (e.g. the user's gender). Let's say that I would like to create a table with two columns: in the first column comes some random text, a view or whatever and in the second column comes a picture, according to the caracteristics I set before. [Thus, to be completely clear, the image in the column on the right side is simply chosen by the site editor and doesn't change when the text in the left column is changed.]

How can I insert such an image? Is there a module that makes this possible? I can't find any... For icons, I now created a content type 'Icon' with field_image and an image style 'Icon' with 'Image styles'. These ones combined work pretty fine, but it doesn't seem a very clean way to achieve my goal, because I've to create a new content type for each icon. Or is it?

Answer 1

I think this depends a little on what you want to achieve. Is it a static set of icons that will never change? If so, you should consider just creating a block containing simple HTML for your images. That way, you can use this block wherever you want, and you can style both the images and the position of the block using CSS.

Strictly speaking, adding field_image to a content type implies a relationship between the image and the other content of nodes of that content type. I wouldn't advise creating a whole content type just to hold icon images.

Hope this helps!