Chapter 42

ch39 Tiled Backgrounds

Contents

42.1 Tiling.......................... 316

42.2 Edge Effect...................... 316

42.3 Textures........................ 316

42.4 Example 1....................... 317

42.5 Example 2....................... 320

Face it. Backgrounds can have a dramatic effect on the feeling you get when
you visit a webpage.

There are a couple of options. In this chapter we will talk about tiled
backgrounds, but you could also use (a) a large photograph, (b) something
you download from the web, or (c) a simple color.

(a) large photographs suffer, sometimes greatly, from slow download.

(b) something from the web suffers from copyright problems, and from lack
of personal creativity.

(c) simple color suffers from being boring.

We want to achieve three things: (a) not boring, (b) no copyright problems,
(c) fast download.

We can achieve our goals by making our own tiled background.

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