Making backgrounds for web pages
People went mad with backgrounds at first. But they soon learned that those graphics took way too long to load.
The next two methods are about making seamless tiles. Have you ever seen tiles which repeat all the time. These are not those.
1. In Paint shop pro make an image which you think will make
a nice background. Click on the Selection tool.
Drag the tool across a selection of your image and then click on Selections
and Convert to seamless tile
2. The best way is with Photoshop. See our free backgrounds and tutorial about how to make them in Photoshop.
The most common way these days and the most attractive is to make a background gif which is fixed and which is controlled by CSS.
Here is some code
You will notice that the position of the background image position can be determined by pixels (20px10px), percentages (30%30%), or keyword (top center)
Find some images and give it a try. You can alter all the positions.
Ohter methods of making backgrounds
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I
got a computer way back when. I was linked to the internet, before the
school I taught in had it. So I learned about computers first and then
as I was a teacher librarian I learned a computer system which we used
to computerize the stock. We had to teach students and teachers how to
use it. How to search. At home I was learning to use HTML and images on
the site I had back then. When the school was ready to create a site for
itself I was all for it and wanted to do it. However, the job was given
to the computer techie of course. After I left that school and at another
I had much more access to the internet and collected many sites suitable
for students and teachers to assist with their learning. Then, after retirement
I started learning web design and as I did, being a teacher, I developed
some tutorials, which you will find on this site. I also take photos.
