You can visit their website for a huge selection of free backgrounds available that you can use on your website.

You will save background image to your hard drive same as you would any normal graphic image or clip art. Simply hold your mouse over background image you would like to use, right-click your mouse, and click on "Save Background As". A screen will pop up for you to save image to your hard drive. You can name image whatever you would like with .gif being suffix.

Such as: mybackgroundimage.gif

Inserting Tables

Once your background image is in place, you may begin designing with tables.

On sample web page you viewed earlier, I inserted one table that was 730 Pixels in width first. I chose a color for my table that was complimentary to background, and then began typing.

Next, I created a second table within first table, and gave it two columns or "cells". I resized column or "cell" on right to be only 20% of entire table width. This creates a sidebar navigation section on right. I also colored this table white to distinguish it from rest of web page.

Please remember to insert your background image before beginning your design with tables. Some designers place a background image, and then begin their writing without tables. But, I recommend using tables for simple fact that it helps you to organize your web pages and keeps everything in it's rightful place on your page when others are viewing it.

I hope you'll be able to accomplish many new looks with these simple little tips.

Follow link below to view a sample web page using a table as vertical divider line...

http://www.webmastercourse.com/web-design-weekly/vertical-line-divider.htm

This page was created using Netscape Composer, and steps taken were as follows:

1. Create a three-column table that is 600 pixels in width.

2. Sizes are as follows: Far left column size (18 % of table), middle column (1 % of table), far right column size (81 % of table).

3. Changed color of middle column to match my text links (navy blue).

4. Inserted number "0" into divider column and made number "0" same color as column (navy blue). The reason I did this is because Netscape Composer web pages will not show a table or column of a table unless it has text within it. Don't know why, but it's so. I insert number "0" so that divider column will show, but visitor does not see this number because I've made it same color as column - it's hidden.

Take these four steps in Netscape Composer to create a vertical divider line that's neat and easily viewed by your visitors.

You can get very creative with tables!