Background Images

(non-table version)

SCO Skunkware 96 includes a variety of images which you might find useful as backgrounds for your HTML documents. Browse the GIF and JPEG images and select those that suit your taste and style. In order to utilize one of these as a backgound in an HTML document, insert a line similar to the following just after the HEAD section near the beginning of your document :

<BODY BACKGROUND="/skunkware/pics/jpg/marble1.jpg" BGCOLOR="#C0C0C0" LINK="#0000ff" 
TEXT="#004488" VLINK="#0000cc" WIDTH=512 HEIGHT=256>

after placing the file marble1.jpg in a directory called "jpg" directly beneath your HTTP server's document root. Perhaps you don't like these settings or this background. Maybe you'll like this one better. Or this one . Or this one . Or maybe you'll just have to follow Ricky Nelson's advice when he said "You can't please everyone, so you gotta please yourself".

Note the use of hexadecimal values for setting the colors of links, text, visited links and the default background color (in case the background image is not available for some reason). These settings should be chosen so as to provide some contrast while remaining compatible with the background and pleasing to the eye. Some experimentation may be necessary. Assistance with setting these hexadecimal values is available via http://www.infi.net/wwwimages/colorindex.html and a variety of additional backgrounds can be found at http://www.netcreations.com/patternland/ as well as many other sites around the web.

Perhaps you don't want to incur the overhead of loading a potentially large image as a background but you'd still like to display your page with some colors. This is possible by using a BODY tag similar to the one above but without the BACKGROUND attribute. For instance, a light blue background can be achieved with the line :

<BODY BGCOLOR=#438BAE TEXT=#000000 VLINK=#650065
LINK=#00007A ALINK=#00FF00>

A new midnight blue background :

<BODY BGCOLOR=#00009C LINK=#00FFFF VLINK=#00C8C8
TEXT=#23D8FF ALINK=#00FF00>

A white background :

<BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF TEXT=#000000 LINK=#0000FF
VLINK=#00009C ALINK=#00FF00>

A black background :

<BODY BGCOLOR=#000000  TEXT=#FFFFFF LINK=#0077FF
VLINK=#FF3EE4 ALINK=#00FF00>

And so on.

To see more examples of background images, check out the links off of the Interesting and Useful Links page on this CD.