You can name the folder anything you like, but when working with HTML, it’s best to get in the habit of naming files and folders with short, single word names that are recognizable.
If you aren’t too concerned with ensuring your website will run well on older devices with slower internet connections, you should be safe in using a higher resolution image as your background. Simple images with light, repetitive patterns are also a good choice when deciding on a background image so that you can read any text on top of it.
If you are using a WYSIWYG editor, click the option to open a new HTML file on the start of the page.
Notepad: Replace the “. txt” extension at the end of the file name with “. html”. TextEdit: Use the drop-down menu next to “File Format” to select Wep page (. html).
Alternatively, you can use CSS to set an background image. When you use a filename without a file path or URL (i. e, background-image: url(“background. png”);), the web browser will look in the web page folder for the named image. If the file is in another folder on your file system, you’ll need to add the full path to that file.
When the browser opens, if you see HTML code instead of the background image, the HTML file may have been saved as a . txt or rtf file instead of an HTML document. You may want to try editing the HTML file in a different text editor.
