Patriotic Web Page Backgrounds

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Many web designers like to use patriotic web page backgrounds for a variety of reasons, including websites for veterans, national holidays or just to show support for their own country.

Methods of Using Patriotic Web Page Backgrounds

Patriotic web page backgrounds are extremely popular today. While American patriotic backgrounds are certainly some of the most popular ones on the Internet, people from all over the world also enjoy using patriotic web backgrounds that pertain to their own country. Patriotism is a characteristic of communities across the world that hold a very strong bond with fellow citizens of that country. Patriotic web page backgrounds are a perfect way for people to express that sense of pride that they have for their country. There are a number of different methods you can use to install patriotic web backgrounds.

  • Use patriotic drawings or any of the best graphics from around the Internet to create nice background graphics
  • Make use of patriotic page borders as a background for your website
  • Download any one of the volumes of free patriotic wallpaper themes from around the Internet

This article will walk you through each of these options.

Use Free Patriotic Clipart as a Background

While many people like to just find and download a premade background image, it can also be very rewarding to create your own background graphics by using clipart or graphics. When you want to create a background that displays your national pride, a few examples of the sort of imagery you can use includes the following.

  • Free patriotic eagle clipart is perfect for an American website background
  • Funny patriotic clipart can offer your website a unique twist that visitors will enjoy
  • Either download or create your own patriotic drawings for use as a backdrop for your page
  • Search for and download the best patriotic graphics from around the Internet.

Once you've downloaded the images that you want to use, you can "fade" them by using your favorite graphics editor. Once you've sufficiently faded the image, create a larger image and then copy and paste the image so that it forms a repetitive pattern. Save this image and then call it within your page using the following code.

<body background="/images/image_name.gif">

Use Free Patriotic Borders as a Background

There are several options where you can incorporate a design that uses patriotic page borders as the background. One traditional approach is using an image with a border on one or both sides as the background for your website. As the image stretches down your web page it gives the appearance of one large background with side borders. Another old approach is using tables in order create borders. However, since the advent of Web 2.0 and CSS templates, HTML tables are a thing of the past. More recently, web designers make use of CSS background assignments in order to define borders and background styles for web pages. With CSS, a content background can be defined in combination with a section background, which gives the impression of a border. The border can be patriotic if the background defined for the content is made up of patriotic graphics.

To define the content background, you would program it in CSS as follows.

#content {
margin: 65px;
padding: 15px;
border: 5px solid #a0522d;
background: url(assets/patriotic-background.jpg);


To define a "div" section or "block" that will contain the text on your page, you define it in CSS as follows.

#back-div1 {
border: 5px solid #000;
background: url(assets/brown-glass-block.jpg);
}

Finally, within the HTML of the web page itself, the sections are laid out like this:


<body>
<div id="back-div1">
<div id="content">
/* content here */
</div>
</div>
</body>

By using this approach, you'll have a customized border for your web page that reflects your national pride.

Use Free Patriotic Wallpaper Themes

Finally, if you don't have the time to download an image and convert it into a background, and you don't have the programming skills to create a border for your page, then you may want to consider downloading patriotic web backgrounds that someone else has already created. There are plenty of free resources to choose from online.

  • Creations by Dawn has about 32 backgrounds to choose from, including both light and dark flag and eagle imagery.
  • Roxy's Renditions offers some very nice designs, including buttons that have a matching theme.
  • Siggiez provides a scrolling slideshow of nice tiled images to choose from.
  • BrownieLocks offers one of the cutest sets of hand painted graphics that would make excellent background images.

Whichever design or technique you choose to display your background design, using such a theme as this allows you to express pride in your country in a unique and interesting way.

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