 Have you ever been to a website and seen a really cool background? Maybe parchment paper or notepad paper or tissue paper or something to that effect? (You can tell I like the "paper" style backgrounds, but there are all kinds of cool page backgrounds, as any savvy webcrawler will tell you.) Adding cool backgrounds can really make your blog posts stand out, as you can plainly see! This is very simple...and fun. This is probably the easiest tip I have ever given. Just follow a couple of very easy steps: First of all, get a background. You can do this one of two ways (that I can think of). I am not sure if the first way is ethical or not, so I'll just tell you the second way: Perform a search for "web page backgrounds" or "free page backgrounds" or something to that effect. The first step is downloading the background you find. It will be a small JPEG or GIF file, usually a perfect square... Next, you need to upload the background somewhere. Let's say you have a website like BeckySellsBaltimore.com - upload it there. Upload it anywhere. If you upload it to your own website, using the above example, the direct link to that image would be http://www.beckysellsbaltimore.com/imagename.jpg (where "imagename.jpg" is the name of the background image you uploaded.) If you upload it to your images folder, it would be something like: http://www.beckysellsbaltimore.com/images/imagename.jpg (again, replacing "beckysellsbaltimore" with your own URL and replacing "imagename.jpg" with the name of the background file you uploaded to your site.) Is this confusing? If it is, please comment and I will make this really simple...but it would be best, in the long run, if you learned how to do this simple stuff. Okay. Finding a background image and uploading it is the hardest part. This is the easy part: 1. Paste the following text into Notepad. You cannot copy and paste it directly from this post- it won't work. So open up Notepad and copy and paste the following text code:
2. Replace http://www.gurueffect.com/parchment.gif with your own image link. Unless you want to use this background! Then, you can just leave everything just as it is above. You will be pulling the parchment paper image from Gurueffect.com, which is an old site of mine that I forgot I was hosting... 3. Start a new blog post from your AR profile. 4. Before you do anything, hit the button that says "HTML" at the top of the post editing window. 5. A blank pop-up window will appear, courtesy of ActiveRain. In that window, paste the code from your open Notepad window. Then click "update" and the pop-up window will close. 6. Start typing your blog! You've added a background. Once you have this set up and you have your code saved in Notepad, you can save your Notepad file and open it up every time you write a post. After you do this the first time, from now on, you just follow steps 3, 4, and 5. I really want to make sure that everyone understands this, but I don't know skill levels. If you need help, please contact me.
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