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[WYSIWYG editors take a lot of the effort out of adding background images to a page, but it helps to understand what is going on.]
Background images must be in GIF or JPEG format.[Older browsers do not recognise PNG images] They are incorporated into a document by adding background="background.gif" to <BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" alink="#00FF00" vlink="#FF0000"> creating <BODY background="background.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" alink="#00FF00" vlink="#FF0000"> Where background.gif represents any image, which could for example be in a subdirectory images, in which case it would be /images/background.gif Like all images on your pages the background image should be fairly small. By using a tiled image you can achieve pretty good effects (like this page!). The background image to this page is actually this If your image doesn't tile then you get an effect like this
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