Bordered backgrounds are about the best item to use in web page building.  You can find some fantastic art work and use it without having to worry about obscuring them with your text.  It can be very dificult to work with if you don't use the right code to keep the text from running into the border.  I will now give to you the code to make this happen, but first you need to get the clear.gif
 

 

clear.gif

OK  now for the code.  I'm going to give you the whole code, and try to explain it well enough that you will  know how to adjust it to fit the border you are going to use.

<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD VALIGN=left> <ALIGN=top> <IMG SRC="clear.gif" alt="use for page layout" HEIGHT="1" WIDTH="120"> </TD>
<TD VALIGN=left ALIGN=top WIDTH=100%>

Now this is the 1st part of the code and it goes RIGHT below your body tag. You can not have anything about this code going on all content must be below this code.  Even your Add banners and so on.  The last part of the code goes just about the </BODY> </HTML> tags and it looks like this.

</TD> </TR> </TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
 

OK now you have the code.  Next to the clear.gif is a HEIGHT and WIDTH.   The height is fine at 1. the graphic will keep repeating all the way down the page. The width is the one you must change. If the text is into the border increase the 120 , and if it is to far away make it smaller  than 120.  This is very simple and it works great. Take a look at my Home index page to see how it works. If you have any questins about this Please ask.