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The background of your html documents can make a significant impact on the visitors to your web site, provided that it suits the theme of your site and does not distract from its intended focus.To save any background for your own personal use:
Windows users: Right-click with your mouse on the image which you wish to save and choose the "save as" option by left-clicking on it. You may then save the image to your hard drive or to a floppy disk. Feel free to change the name of the file, but don't change the extension (.jpg or .gif) as this could kinda mess you up. Macintosh users: Click on the image and do not release right away. After a second or two a menu will pop up and you can select the "save as" option by clicking on it. Save it to wherever you like, but again, don't change the extension of the actual file.
Note that you can use this method to save any image (and indeed any background) which you can access with your browser.
To actually utilize the background image in your html document you need only to refer to it in your body tag, like this:
<body background="filename.format">
where the format is either jpg or gif. Your computer will tell you which format the image has been saved under when you save it.
Because the background may take some time to load up with your page, it is a good idea to set a background colour that still makes your text readable while your background image is loading up. bgcolor="#ffffff" for instance, sets the background colour to white. This command belongs in the body tag
Also, be sure to watch that the background which you have chosen isn't distracting and doesn't make the text difficult to read. You can do this by setting the colour of the normal and linked text to colours which provide optimal clarity while reading. Which colours you choose will depend entirely on the colour and pattern of your background.
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