Is there anyway to set a Caedes photograph as the background to another website?

You have to ask the author of that image for permission to use it.

And then upload it to your server, otherwise you are stealing bandwidth

The way I set an image to be the background wallpaper for my website was this:

1) Using Paintshop Pro I designed the layout of my website without a background image. By this I mean the squares and rectangles of different colors that formed the basic layout. This included the top left rectangle, the top right rectangle, the left sidebar, and the main section.

2) Next I resized the image to the same size as the page I designed, and added it to the layout image as a layer and sent it to the bottom layer of the layer stack. At this point the image should not be visible at all.

3) Next I set the top layer to some degree of transparency. This hould allow the image underneath to become visible through the top layout layer.

4) Finally I exported the (saved) image using the "image slicer" utility built into Paintshop Pro (and also I believe into Photoshop).

This last step allowed me to export the image as a set of html tables corresponding to the rectangles in the layout page. The result is an html page and a bunch of sliced-up jpg's that now fit onto the html document. I believe it to be "bitchin".

If you want to see the result, go to :

http://24.252.121.227:81

This is my photography wensite, and I used this method to create the pages.

It's actually a much better option to use CSS (cascading style sheets), but it depends on what you want to do exactly.

Can you give a bit more information than that, Crusader?

Depends where your website is. (Using Geocities as an example, since mine is there):

1. Ask author for permission, or make my own background.
2. Save as a jpg or gif file.
3. Upload it to Geocities.
4. Include it in the background tag. If you don't know what that is, I suggest reading an HTML guide online. Do a yahoo search or go to your bookstore and get something like HTML for Dummies.

Good luck.

I'd like to point out that very few (if any) of the images on caedes.net would make good backgrounds for a webpage.

yea caedes is right most of them are to busy or to many different colours to be able to read and text over them

When I choose the background for my web pages, I like to choose something that has recognizeable shapes that will fall in strategic places on the page - ex: a tree coming up on the left and overhanging the page contents on the right. It highlights the content without distracting from it. Generally wallpaper, which has content in the center and is usually 3x4 instead of 4x3 is inappropriate for backgrounds.

Also most Caedes backgrounds aren't tileable, at least, not easily. When I make a wallpaper for my website, I use the mirror-reflecting effect in PSP to get it to tile seamlessly.