You will need the following:

• A computer paint program or a scanner.

• A bitmap converter.

• Step 1

  Open a computer drawing/painting program. Examples of such programs are:

  • McDraw or Claris Works on the Macintosh.

    or

  • MsPaint on an IBM compatble.

• Step 2

  Design the background for your webpage project. An Escher-type background project is shown below. Use a piece of paper with grids to copy this design. Or create you own design on a piece of paper with grids.

  

• Step 3

  Now using your design and the computer drawing program with grids, place the design onto the computer screen using the computer drawing program.. Save your work periodically onto a file in your folder or disk.

• Step 4

  Discuss your design with your teacher.

• Step 5

  Convert your file into a gif or jpeg by following your teacher directions.

• Step 6

  Add the Image to your webpage as a background by changing the BODY tag, for example:

  < BODY BGCOLOR=#8888EE" BACKGROUND="*.gif" TEXT="000000" >

  where the "*" is replaced by the name of your image file.