Backgrounds


BACKGROUND IMAGES

If you use a wild/busy background, select a text color that will stand out.
Also keep in mind not everyone is viewing in 32 bit True Color. Monitor to monitor things will look different.

It's a pain but you can test what your page will look like in 256 colors.

To do this:
  1. First Save your work in your html file and close all windows.
  2. Go to your Desktop and right click your mouse
  3. Select Properties
  4. Select the Settings Tab-Here you will find an option to change your settings. Once you select your changes Windows will want you to reboot.(this is why you saved your files and closed windows)

BACKGROUND COLORS

If you are choosing a background image, you also need to set default background color. Many times it takes a while for the background image to load. The viewer will be looking at a white screen with white text until the black image background appears. If the background had been set to black, the viewer could have been reading before the image appeared.
Background tag is put in the top of the document in the body tag.

And should look like this:

<BODY bgcolor="#008000" text="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#00FF00"

Border Backgrounds-When using a side border background it is best to use a table to format your text. This way your text does not cover the side border. See Tables help for examples.