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Alright you made an HTML document and played around with text. Now its time to add personality! You can use .bmp's but don't only internet explorer can see them. Stick with jpg's or gif's. Also try not to over do it as you will increase load time. Of course with highly graphical based art sites like April's Place that can be hard to do but at least with those sites its expected.
There is two very easy ways to do your background. The first is a background color. inside the <BODY> tag you add BGCOLOR="#000000" so it looks like this <BODY BG="#000000"> The number is the color code for black. You will have a black background. You can change the color code to any of the ones I have listed for you in the color codes. Easy huh! The second very easy option is to add a background tile. You can make your own or find them all over the net. I offer a few on my other site listed at the bottom of the page. Even if you choose to use a background image you should still add a background color. Some browsers have images turned off. To add the image add this inside the body tag BACKGROUND="myimage.gif" so it looks like this <BODY BACKGROUND="myimage.gif" BGCOLOR="#000000"> That's it!
This is easy! In between the body tags where the viewer see's what you have to show add this tag <IMG SRC="myimage.jpg"> you can also specify the hieght and width you want by adding them to the tag like this <IMG SRC="myimage.jpg WIDTH="100" Height="150"> don't forget your quotations. EAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASY! Now if you want that image to go in a particular part of the page you'll need to learn how to use tables. That's coming in lesson 4. |