The Base Page

Creating the appearance of real objects, like sticky notes and file folders, has always been popular in web design. If you wanted an article to look like it was written on a piece of real paper, the first step might be to apply a simple lined paper background image to it. Figure 3.1 shows this starting point.

Figure 3.1. The article with a single background image, before any CSS3 is applied.

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