Backgrounds
Colors
- You may choose to enhance your web pages by adding color to the
background. This color will fill your entire document. Different colors are
defined by a 6 digit hex code. There are many places on the Internet to find
these color hex codes.
- Examples of hex codes:
| FF0000
| FF9900
| FFFF00
| 009900
| 0000FF
| 993399
|
- Once you have the hex code for the color you want, you can imbed it in your document with the following command:
<![CDATA[<body bgcolor=#xxxxxx> note: where xxxxxx is the hexcode]]>
- This command should be imbedded at the top of your html file.
- Examples of pages with solid colored backgrounds
Wallpapers or Textures
- When you add color to your page it is a single flat color throughout your document. There may be times where you want a graphic or texture for your background. These graphics or textures are stored as images. Therefore when you add a texture to your document you are loading a graphic to your background. There are many places on the Internet to find background wallpapers and textures (or you can create your own). Here's some:
- Examples of backgrounds (notice the one used on this page)
- After you choose the background you like, you must copy it to your server. (With Netscape Mac users should hold down the mouse button until a menu appears and PC users should hold down the right mouse button until a menu appears. This menu will allow you to copy the image to your hard disk.) You can imbed it in your document with the following command:
<![CDATA[<body background=image.gif> note: where image.gif is the name of the background image]]>
- This command should be imbedded at the top of your html file.
- Examples of pages with image backgrounds from above.
