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Backgrounds are a most necessary ingredient to crafting the perfect web page. They also happen to be drop dead easy to add. Here we go.

The most widely used backgrounds are simple colors; black and white especially. Adding colors like these are quite easy. In your <body> tag, type in bgcolor="white" (you can also use hexadecimal codes like #FFFFFF). Here's and example of what the code would look like to make a background using the hexadecimal code #00FF00 which is normal green:

Tiling an image as the background of your page is quite easy, too. To set mybackground.gif as the background image use this:

Because background images tile automatically, it is best to try to make the background image as small as possible. For instance, if you only wanted to make a couple of stripes appear on the left side of a background, you could actually accomplish it by making a background image with a height of 1 pixel.

Background colors and images function exactly the same way in tables as they do in the full body of a web page. To make the background of an entire table red, you could use:

To make only a certain table cell have the image psychoback.jpg tile in the background, you could use:

That's all folks.

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Tutorials: HTML
Title/Description	Level
Backgrounds: Tutorial Learn how to effectively add backgrounds to your page that make your page look professional or amateur.	Beginner
Imagemaps: Tutorial Make one image into various clickable regions using only HTML	Intermediate
Embedding Fonts: Tutorial Learn how to use uncommon fonts in web pages by embedding them.	Advanced
Images: Tutorial Positioning images can make your images look just right when inserted into text.	Intermediate
Form Effects: Tutorial Learn how to create trendy forms with simple style commands as well as with CSS classes.	Intermediate
Layers: Tutorial Layers can make complicated image placement possible.	Advanced
Forms: Tutorial Use forms to gather information from your users.	Advanced
Links: Tutorial Making links in HTML is the easiest thing you will ever do.	Beginner
Frames: Tutorial Learn how to create frames that enable you to create navigation systems on your site.	Advanced
Scrollbars: Tutorial Learn how to add effects to your scrollbars and add flavor to your page.	Advanced
Hide From Print: Tutorial Learn how to only allow a visitor to print part of your page using CSS.	Intermediate
SSI: Tutorial Learning how to do SSI will save you a lot of authoring time.	Advanced
Horizontal Line: Tutorial The horizontal line serves as a great separator tool.	Beginner
Table Styles: Tutorial Learn how to add various table styles such as dash or dot borders, and many other things.	Intermediate
Iframes: Tutorial Iframes can organize your website into clean sections.	Advanced
Tables: Tutorial Organize your web page layouts with tables.	Intermediate
216 Web Safe Color Chart: Tutorial The 216-color color-safe palette refers to colors (RGB values) that will appear the same on either IE or Netscape and Windows or Mac platforms.	Beginner
Pantone RGB/Hex/HTML Colors: Tutorial This table contains all pantone colors converted to RGB and Hex. It displays them all in HTML colors.	Intermediate

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