7.9.1999

What's on your Web site? By law, guys have to have a JPG of Sarah Michelle Gellar, and gals have to have a JPG of George Clooney. However, there is no law regarding the use of background images on Web pages. Sometimes I wish there was. If you choose to use a background image, I suggest that it be the following: non-animated, purposeful, and seamless. What does 'seamless' mean? When the 'finished' background looks like one giant image (without visible interruption), it's seamless. To test an image's seamlessness, save it as a BMP, then try to tile it as your Desktop wallpaper. Does it look like several small images on your screen? Then it's not seamless. Does it look like a never-ending pattern? It's seamless. Or so it would seem?