Backgrounds
Introduction of Background
Background can refer to the backdrop of a computer, a backdrop in general, and
one's experiences in life. When deciding whether you want to use a plain color
or an image you should consider the fact that very few of the web's 100 most
visited sites use background images.
More than 90 percent have a plain white background. The few pages that
actually do use images use very discrete and fast loading images for the
purpose.
When picking the desired color - whether it be plain or an image - you
should also consider the fact that some colors work with almost any other
color - while there are colors that only work with a limited number of
contrasts. If you use green on a red background, it will look different than
if you use the same green on a blue background. Without digging into deep
theories about colors, we will make a note on the fact that white, gray and
black colors tend to be balanced against other colors. That is, white, gray
and black work with any of the colors in the rainbow. This is probably the
reason that white, black and gray are the most widely used background colors
found on the net.
Background Basics
In life, we tend to ignore what's in the background. Of course, we do that
at our own peril, but we do it nonetheless. On the Web, however, a
background can have a huge impact on the look, feel, and "branding," of your
Web site.
Bigger Image Backgrounds isn't Necessarily Better
One mistake people make when creating backgrounds is to create huge
backgrounds. They think it needs to be very wide and tall, so it will cover
the background of all screen sizes. But in graphics, bigger always means
slower, so this approach is usually impractical. The next mistake is to make
background images that are too small. Browsers can "tile" (or repeat)
smaller graphics across and down the background of a page until they fill
the entire browser window. But this, too, can slow down your site.
A background image can be as small as a single pixel, and in the past Web
designers created extremely tiny (therefore supposedly fast) images that the
browser would tile. But there's a catch: Tiling the background image takes
processing power from your computer. The smaller the tile, the more times it
has to be repeated. If you've ever been to a Web site and noticed the
background seemed to appear slowly and scrolling was more like crawling,
that page could have had a very small background image and your computer and
browser were straining to repeat it.
Computer Backgrounds
Standard wallpaper used on your computer with a desktop
design of the user interface. It is found a setting in your computer before
the sample menus, icons and other items displayed on the screen. They are
usually in JPEG or GIF format and can be used such as Microsoft Windows,
Macintosh, Mac OS, Linux and many more with different operating systems.
However, these default wallpaper was a bit boring. For this you need
something that canYour computer screen scream of excitement and fun.
The different wallpapers you see today are of different designs so that they
immediately spice up your plain screen. Searching for the perfect wallpaper
can be easily done, as they are widely used today on the Internet. So rather
than with a plain background on your screen, you can witness an entirely new
look.
Background Images
The background of your website is very important. Scalable, tilable
backgrounds for use with your Website to add that extra touch, and bring out
the character in your Web pages. Although these graphics are free to use, we
do ask that you place a link backto us, somewhere in your Website. To save a
background to your computer, simply right-click over the image, and choose
to "Save Picture As...". Please be patient while the backgrounds load, as
they are larger than they appear, but have been scaled down to fit within
this Web page.
How to Create a Computer Background
A computer background or desktop wallpaper is the image you see on the
screen behind your program and document icons. By default, this picture can
be a solid color, a generic landscape or worst of all, an advertisement. You
can easily change this to a graphic of your children, favorite sports team
or hobby by creating your own background.
- Step 1: Find out the size of the background you need to make. Right-click on
any free area of the screen and choose "Properties". The Display Properties
dialogue appears. Click the "Settings" tab and write down the screen
resolution listed in the lower-left. This example uses a resolution of 1024
by 768. Click "Cancel" to close the dialogue.
- Step 2: Gather a picture or two that you would like to use as your desktop
background. You can upload one from your camera, or look for suitable images
using your favorite search engine.
- Step 3: Use your favorite art program to create a document with the
dimensions you wrote from the Properties dialog (i.e., 1024 by 768).
- Step 4: Open the picture(s) you would like to use as your background. If the
picture is bigger than the document window you created, reduce the image to
fit. If you would like to use several smaller pictures, fill the document
window first with a dark solid color.
- Step 5: Copy your picture(s) to paste into the document window. If your
desktop icons are clustered onto one side of the screen, flip or otherwise
adjust the pictures so that the main image appears on the opposite side.
- Step 6: Save your image into the most compact size available so that it
loads quickly.
- Step 7: Apply the image as your desktop background by right-clicking on any
free area of the screen and choosing "Properties". The "Display Properties"
dialogue appears. Click the "Desktop" tab and then the "Browse" button to
display a File dialogue. Browse to your image file and double-click to load
it. Your image appears as a preview in the dialogue. Click the "Apply"
button to close the dialogue and put your image in the background.
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