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How to Create a Seamless Background for Your Website
A seamless background is one where you cannot tell where the background begins or ends. Creating one for your website is easy to accomplish in Paint Shop Pro.
Directions:
Creating the Seamless Background:
- Go to Paint Shop Pro and open the background image you want to use on your web page.
- Use the "Selection" tool to select the area of your image, which will be turned into a seamless pattern.
- Choose "Selections" and "Convert to Seamless Pattern" from the toolbar. Paint Shop Pro will create the background for you.
- Select "File" and "Save" from the toolbar and save your pattern as a JPG or GIF.
Adding the Background Code to Your Web Page:
- Use a web editor to open the HTML file where the seamless background will be used.
- Replace the <BODY> tag with the following HTML code. Then change "image-name.gif" to the actual name of the image file:
<BODY background="image-name.gif"> - To use the background in a table on your website instead, add the following HTML code:
<table background="image-name.gif">
<tr>
<td>Some content within the table...</td>
</tr>
</table> - Save the HTML file. Then upload it and your background image to the web server.
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