It is obvious that border backgrounds must be tended to with a different perspective than regular ones. Here are some tips and tags to how to tame any bordered background. Which font colors, and styles you put on your own webhome, will always be left up to you!

HTML Code - There are a few HTML tags that have been used to help move that text to the left a little more. The best way to move the text over, is to put it in a table. Here is an HTML code to help you set up your background:

body background="background.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#FFFFFF"

Enter you selected colors for fonts, links, and an alternative background color, then enclose this tag with the usual < and > symbols.

Where you see background.gif is where you enter the filename of your bordered background. To add the text, you will need to put it in a table. Table widths will vary according to background. Most will carry over on 400 or 300 pixel widths. Some Cloud Nine backgrounds will make you need a 300 width table for a background seen on 640 x 480 resolution. Cloud Nine suggests that you always use 800 x 600 for best results.

table
table align="center" width="400" height="100"
tr
td


Be sure to enclose each tag that begins with < and >. Please keep in maind that 400 and 100 are only ramdom suggestions. You decide what looks best for your page.

In Netscape, tables will not show up until you close thier tags, so after you enter your page data, close up your tables. Then good luck!

/td
/tr
/table



References

  • The AngelCom Color Swatcher - Here you can use a Java color mixer to mix your own backgound, font and link colors, while generating the hex codes. Great for these backgrounds. Your browser must suppert Java.

  • Corey's Homepage - A great place to find HTML help through links.

  • 216 Color Table - The IconBAZAAR standard 216 Netscape color table is a great bookmark reference for looking up basic colors.