A Guide to Wallpaper Backgrounds
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A Guide to Wallpaper Backgrounds Using an internet browser, go to the following address: http://www.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/bg/backgrounds.html Choose a wallpaper pattern from the patterns shown. Move the cursor to the pattern of choice. Click and hold the mouse button until a popup menu appears. Continue holding while dragging the cursor to Save this image as… and release the mouse. Click on the Desktop icon in the window that appears. Click on the Save button. Go to the Apple menu at the top left corner of the screen. Select Network Applications or Internet Applications. Another menu will appear to the side of the NETWORK/INTERNET menu. Select Fetch 3.0.3. If the Fetch window does not appear immediately, go to the File menu and select New Connection. Michelle Kennedy, Brent Volker, Jason Ryon, April Moyer 1 A Guide to Wallpaper Backgrounds (Continued) In the New Connection window, type the following: HOST: “isua.iastate.edu” USER ID: your username for Vincent PASSWORD: your Vincent password DIRECTORY: “WWW” Click OK. A window should appear that lists all the documents and graphics in your personal WWW directory. Drag document from the desktop into the Fetch window that lists the WWW directory contents. A dog icon will run on the screen while the file is transferring to the WWW directory. The document should be listed in the directory after completing this step. Within the Vincent directory, open the homepage.html file. After the <BODY BGCOLOR="#------" prompt, press space bar and type in "BACKGROUND=“image.jpg”". A color code should replace the six dashes after the pound sign and before the second quotation mark, if you have already chosen a background color. Replace “image.jpg” with your chosen wallpaper file name. The wallpaper background overrides the solid color background, so it is OK to leave the command for a solid color background there. Michelle Kennedy, Brent Volker, Jason Ryon, April Moyer 2 A Guide to Wallpaper Backgrounds This line should look like the following: <BODY BGCOLOR="#------" BACKGROUND="image.jpg">. (Continued) For example, if the image is called “clouds.jpg”,the line would read: <BODY BGCOLOR="#------" BACKGROUND="clouds.jpg"> If other commands are already written into the body section, the “ >” sign should come at the end of the entire body command. Press the Control and the letter O keys simultaneously to save the changes to your web page. Press Return/Enter. Open the web page using Netscape Navigator and click on the Reload button to see the changes. Michelle Kennedy, Brent Volker, Jason Ryon, April Moyer 3
