ABSTRACT
I’ve talked quite extensively about graphics elsewhere, so don’t intend to repeat myself unnecessarily here. However, it is worth briefly saying a few words about background colours and images.
Background images
The default background for a web page is a rather dirty grey. Perfectly acceptable, lots of people use it, but it’s rather boring. You may decide that you want to add a little more colour and interest to your pages, and an easy way of doing this is to add a background image to the page. This can be done quite simply by adding a BACKGROUND attribute to the <BODY> element like this:
<BODY BACKGROUND=“filename.gif”>
Background graphics are often referred to as ‘textures’ and there are a great many of these available for use; good graphics packages should include some for you to use. The background image is retrieved by the browser and repeated across and down the page, so it is important that the image you choose lines up correctly on all four sides, or you will end up with a background that looks messy
and unprofessional. If you want to create your own I would suggest using a graphics package that has a utility that will do this for you, since it’s almost impossible to get background images to line up properly without one.
