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Adding a Background

There's time to learn one more FrontPage skill, and then you'll need to take a short break and start the next Web chapter to finish your FrontPage introduction.

FrontPage makes it easy to add a background to any Web page. Backgrounds can be a solid color or perhaps a pattern or picture, not unlike the background wallpaper that you can set for Windows.

Before adding a background to any Web page, keep in mind these two considerations:

• Backgrounds can add considerable time for a Web page to load. Keep an eye on the time gauge in FrontPage's lower-right corner. If a page takes too long to load, your Web audience will likely just move to a different Web site without waiting for yours to load.

• Backgrounds can make your Web page look far too busy. Always balance content and form so your page looks inviting and doesn't look too cluttered.

To add a background pattern, right-click anywhere on your Web page and select Page Properties from the pop-up menu. Click the Formatting tab and then click the Background picture option. You now can locate a picture on your computer or on your network server to place as a background on the page. You'll find some possibilities in your c:\Windows folder because that's where Window stores the desktop wallpaper samples. When you select a picture and close the dialog boxes, your Web page's formerly plain background now takes on a more finished look, as Figure Web 1.9 shows.