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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
(1) Basic instructions on adding a background image to your
page
(2) Downloading the free background images
(3) Uploading images to your server
(4) Sample HTML code
(5) Instructions for WebTV users
(6) Using your own background on eBay
(7) Making your own buttons
(8) Having problems with .ART files?
(1) Basic instructions on adding a background image to your page
- Download the image to your computer
- For NN and MSIE: right-click on the image and select "Save Image
As"
For Mac: click on the image and hold down the mouse button.
For WebTV: click here for instructions. - Upload the image to your server (the same way in which you upload your html files)
- Add a reference to it in the BODY Tag of your web page like this: <BODY BACKGROUND="rbow001.gif">
- The image will then reproduce all over the page, creating a "background"
(2) Downloading the background image
- Click on the thumbnail of the background image
- Right-click anywhere on the background of the preview page and select "Save Background As..."
- Go to the directory in which you want to save the background and specify a name (e.g. butterfly.gif)
- Click on "Save"
- Click on the thumbnail of the background image
- Right-click anywhere on the background of the preview page and select "View Background Image"
- The actual image will be displayed. Now right-click on the image and select "Save Image As.."
- Go to the directory in which you want to save the background and specify a name (e.g. butterfly.gif)
- Click on "Save"
(3) Uploading the background image to your server
- Connect to your web site using FTP or the web
- Select the background image file on your computer
- Upload the file to the remote directory
- The image file is now on your web site Depending on which directory you saved it in on the server, you reference it in the HTML for your page.
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Web Site Title Here</title>
</head>
<body background="butterfly.gif">
The text for your page goes here.
</body>
</html>
To give another example, if you saved the image file into a directory
called "images" on your web site, you would reference it like
this:
<html>
<head>
<title>Your Web Site Title here</title>
</head>
<body background="images/butterfly.gif">
The text for your page goes here.
</body>
</html>
(5) Instructions for WebTV users
First of all, and this is important, please do NOT link to any graphics directly from this site.
WebTV users do not need to link to graphics. The Transload service was created specifically to address that problem, providing WebTVers a means to upload graphics to their own server.
Should you have problems understanding the process, please see Bruce's WebTV Help Pages. He has many helpful links for WebTV users as well as a support network to assist WebTV newbies.
Please do not send me any email requesting information on how you can use the graphics on this site. All the information relating to WebTV users can be found at the links given here.
See: The Transload service and Bruce's WebTV Help Pages
(6) Using your own background on eBay*
I find a LOT of people on eBay link directly to this site. Please don't do this, please use the following instructions.
Download the image you like to your hard drive (see 1 & 2 above)
Use the eBay Seller's Assistant (formerly Auction Assistant)
- In the Listing Template Studio, click on the Media Files tab
- Click on browse (on the first line) and find the image that is stored on your hard drive
- Click on Upload Media Files. This will send the image to the web space you indicated in the Seller's Assistant program.
Don't forget to add a link to BackgroundCity.Com on each page where you use a background image!
* Thanks to Ruth Weaver for these instructions. Ruth
uses images from BackgroundCity.Com on some of her auction listings at
eBay.
Ruth says, "This is a fun way to be creative with every single auction
that I list". To check out Ruth's current auctions, her ID is ruthweaver.
This actually has nothing to do with background images but it's such a frequently asked question that i thought i'd include it here in this FAQ section.
Apparently everyone wants to know how they can make buttons for their web sites. I'd say there are two options:
1) Get some good graphic software and create your button from scratch, although this would involve knowledge of the software and some experience with creating graphics. If you have these you're probably not asking this question anyway!
2) Better still, and a lot quicker and easier, is to get some button making software! Less pain and more gain for you. One of the best out there is Xara's WebStyle 4. EVERYONE can make quality web graphics with Xara Webstyle, whatever your skill level. Not only buttons, but banner ads and even complete web pages! All you have to do is customize the templates - it's really easy! Click here for a feature list and examples.
There are other button makers out there but i find that Xara's WebStyle is really worth recommending.
Good luck, whatever you choose to do, but please please do not write to me asking how to create buttons! This is all the advice i have to offer.
(8) Having problems with .ART files?
Some clients, like AOL, have their own custom image format. These clients have to be told to save files in their original format (i.e., to save a .GIF file as a .GIF file and not as an .ART file).
Apparently there is a setting in AOL that determines if you can save a file in anything other than AOL's native .ART file format:
From the My AOL menu go to Preferences > Web Graphics ... uncheck Use Compressed Graphics. Once you do this the files should save as .GIF or whatever format you are trying to save them in.
