The wallpaper you choose for your computer's desktop and the web page background you'd like to add to your web site have at least one thing in common: they're both great ways to add a background image, texture or pattern to your website. Your computer's operating system makes it easy to add or change wallpaper; it's usually just a case of finding the background image you want and then clicking your mouse. But adding a background to a web site requires a little more than basic point-and-click skills. Fortunately, there are several ways to change a simple white background into a much more appealing visual experience for your web site visitors.
Creating your own web page backgrounds is arguably the most demanding of these alternatives. Because you'll need to create high-quality GIF or JPEG images for your backgrounds, you will need a basic familiarity with some kind of graphic design software. You don't need to be a Photoshop expert, although quick learners can download a free 30-day evaluation copy of Photoshop at the Adobe web site and jump right into creating their own background images. Remember, too, that you'll also need a basic understanding of HTML to add the HTML tags to your website that will make your background images appear.
If you don't feel you should have to learn the basics of graphic design to give your web page a background, another approach is to find web page backgrounds on the web.
Web masters working on their first website will often look for free clip art sites as a source for their web page backgrounds. This is exactly the choice I made a few sites ago and the backgrounds I found were pretty uneven in terms of quality. Because a web page background is made up of a single image file that tiles across the page, it's important that you can't see the seams between the tiles � something that doesn't always work well with clip art backgrounds. Many of the web page backgrounds found on clip art sites also have a tacky or garish quality.
While researching this article, I found it fascinating that a fairly large percentage of people trolling the search engines for "web page backgrounds" are actually looking for a professionally designed web page template.
Choosing a professional-grade template is the third way to give your web page a great-looking background. These ready-made web templates are not only easy to use and customize, they also look fabulous and come with beautiful pictures and backgrounds that will absolutely make your site stand out in a crowd. With this framework in place, all that's left is to add great content to make your site sing.
That's why, in the long run, choosing a template is the fastest and easiest way to get your web site up and running while also giving it the professional look you want.
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