[WEB4LIB] How to make "grid" effect as web page background

[Chris Gray]

Try taking a screen shot of the grid in Dreamweaver with a program like
snag it.  Make it a small area with nothing but grid in it.  Trim it in a
graphics program so that it will tile properly and get the right
proportions of the square (for example have each corner of your swatch in
the exact middle of a grid square).  Then use it as a background image.

I just did this at <http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~cpgray/grid.html> and
you're welcome to the image file at
<http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/~cpgray/grid.jpg>.

Chris Gray
Library Systems
University of Waterloo


On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Joan K. Graham wrote:

> Listees:
> 
> In Dreamweaver you can choose View, Grid to place the grid for lining up
> parts of the layout in the Dreamweaver window.
> If you want to produce, in a real web page, a BACKGROUND that is
> identical to the Dreamweaver grid, what is the best way to do it? You
> can tile a square, or make a table with borders, but those methods don't
> produce the thin lines I want. Ideas, anyone? TIA.
> 
> Benjamin L. Armstead Jr.
> barmstead1 at neo.rr.com
> 
>