Modern browsers support SVG but Internet Explorer doesn’t. IE however has its own alternative way of creating colour gradients. By combining both we can create colour gradients that can be resized as needed and which don’t require conventional images.
Back when I wrote this article it was still fairly common to pollute your HTML with deprecated attributes to define your page appearance such as the background attribute on the body tag. Even back then the better way to specify your page background was to use stylesheets since there are many things that can be done when you specify the background that way that are not possible without stylesheets.
Updating the background colours and images is the final step in converting a generic template into the custom template that you will use as the basis for all the pages on your web site. Exactly how you do these background changes depends on whether you have selected a template that does things properly using a stylesheet or have one that is not as well coded and uses badly coded HTML. In the sixth NVU tutorial I consider both types of template but concentrate mostly on the better written ones (which hopefully is the sort you chose).
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