Introduction to Backgrounds

Welcome to Introduction to Backgrounds!

On this page we will provide you with some basic techniques for creating and using different backgrounds and colors. There are important considerations in deciding on your background, such as color and texture, color of text, images as background and contrasts between all of these elements.

If you're tired of the same old drab web page, try using the <BGCOLOR="X"> attribute (where X= one of the 16 predefined HTML colors or a hexadecimal color value, both of which you will find in this site). This attribute is used within the <BODY> tag. You can also change the "TEXT," "LINK," "ALINK," and "VLINK" colors. And on some browsers it can be used within the <TABLE> tag to change the color of the entire table, or within the <TR> or <TD> to change the color of a row or cell within a table.

Or you can use tiled images or textures as an effective way to draw attention to your site. By default when you select an image as your background, it automatically is tiled throughout that page.