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Chapter 8

This is an example of a border background. I've put a border on it so that you can see it better.
Don't worry if the border is too wide for your page, the browser will cut off what it doesn't need.

Whether you are using a border or regular background keep in mind that text has to be legible when printed on it. If you use a really wild background you might want to place your text within a table with a white background so the text can be seen. If you go the route of changing your text color to make it legible, keep in mind the surfers not loading up images off the net. Set your pages background color to about the same color as your background graphic.

There's no problem using regular backgrounds, but there is a little trick to borders. With borders you usually don't want your border graphic overwritten by text. It hides the graphic and usually makes the text unreadable. There are several different techniques you can use to get around this. One way is to put everything on the page into one big table with two columns and no border width. Define the first column by pixel width.
1. First insert a table with 1 row, 2 columns, no border width, 100% of window, aligned left, and not equal column widths.
I've left the border on this table so you can see it

2. Then Click inside the table in the left column, go to Format, down to table info. 3. When the window open up it will be on the cell tab. Set the cell width to pixels at 125. This is a good starting place. You can adjust up or down later. Experiment until you have the right size. 4. Then just treat the right column as the page and put nothing into the left.

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