HTML with Arachnophilia (the very basics)
Adding a background graphic

One of the things Arachnophilias creator forgot was a button to add a background graphic
but since he made it so easy to add your own I will now show you how.

Go to 'Tools' > Toolbars/Macros > Edit Toolbars.
Change to the 'Graphics' Toolbar in the drop down box

Click the 'Edit Toolbar Commands' tab
and then 'New Insert'

I will just give you the code to put in but
have a look in the Systems Commands at everything that is available.
Button Name : Bkrnd
Tool Tip : Background
Status Bar : Background
Actual code :
Select All

There is a space before background in the code

Close

You now have the button on your graphics toolbar

Position your cursor at the end of the body file just before the >
Click the 'Bkgrnd' button and browse to the graphic
Your body tag should look like this.
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#008000" alink="#ff0000" background="mybackground.jpg" >

If 'background' is green instead of blue you are missing a space before it.
I mentioned it above.

You will notice that no sizes are given when entering a background graphic.
It doesn't matter what size the graphic is it will repeat across and down filling the page. Preview the page

Now it is time to have some fun.

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