The name is a bit misleading. When you see
an HTML page with wallpaper or backgrounds, it is not one continuous
.gif or .jpeg. It is one small .gif or .jpeg repeated again and
again... and it is equally as simple as the colors above.
First you need a background. I make most of mine. I'll get
to the making of a background in a second.
Since you need a digitizer to make backgrounds, and I know
not everyone has one of these at their fingertips, the best way to
use a background is to grab one off the Internet. Here are a couple
of places I have found that are quite helpful. Again, you might want
to bookmark the ones you like. Just click on them to go...
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<BODY BACKGROUND="image.gif">
All color commands are overridden by the BODY BACKGROUND
command. That's mainly because the wallpaper goes over the color.
But... it will take a bit of time for the background .gif or
.jpeg to load. It looks nice to put a color command before the BODY
BACKGROUND command. What happens is that your page goes to a certain
color and then the wallpaper wipes over that color. Nice effect.
Please note: The use of two commands, one for BGCOLOR and
the other for BACKGROUND, does not work on upper level browsers.
You'll need to put them both together in the same command. Something
like this:
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" BACKGROUND="image.gif">
How to construct your own
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| There are no hard or fast
rules to this, as you can see from above, but here's
what I have found works best...
Easy Wallpapers
1. Find a piece of paper, other than white, that already
has text on it. That way you know when you use it as a
background, your text will show up.
2. Paper that works well for this: diplomas, citations,
stationery, or fancy copy paper from Kinkos.
3. Simply scan the paper and crop a perfect square. Make
it kind of small. 1" x 1" works really well.
4. Use it as a background. Most of the wallpapers above
were made this way
Harder Wallpapers
1. Find a geometric image to scan. Bricks work well, as
does lined paper.
2. Scan the picture.
3. Crop the picture so that the items on the ends and
top are cut exactly in half. That way they will line up
when posted as wallpaper.
4. This is tough. Try doing one on lined paper first for
practice.
-or- If you have access to an image program,
try this. It works a lot better than you might think.
1. Scan any picture you want as a background and crop
it kind of small.
2. Use your image program to do an "offset" of 50%.
(This turns the picture in on itself by half.)
3. Use the program to touch up any lines that don't come
together at the midpoint of the graphic.
4. Save it. Doing this guarantees that the graphic you
just created will line up perfectly as a background. It
works, trust me. Have I steered you wrong yet?
information has been provided by: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/backgrounds/article.php/3478751 |
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