Adding a Background Scroll

- An Overview -

One of the most popular effects used with stationery today, is the scrolling background.  To add a background scroll to your stationery, you edit the stationery's (HTML) file and add a piece of code called Visual Basic Script (VBScript). The script is what makes the background image move across your screen.

In this section, the discussion centers on using Windows Explorer and Notepad to edit stationery's file to add and edit the script that controls the scrolling background. The process of adding a background scroll to a piece of stationery really involves two phases and they are:

1. Editing the stationery's HTML file to add the script;
2. Modifying or editing the script for:
   • The background files size parameters - These parameters tell the script the width and height dimensions of the background image file, used in the stationery;
   • The direction parameter - This parameter tells the script which direction you would like the background file to scroll, in the stationery;
   • The background files position parameter - Modifying this parameter is optional; however, it tells the script where to position the background file, in the stationery.

Now, the example piece of stationery I will be using, in this discussion, is a piece, which was created in the discussion on Creating Outlook Stationery. So, if you have not seen this discussion and the would like to follow along using the example stationery, please click on Creating Outlook Stationery and take a few minutes to create the example. Otherwise, you can substitute any piece of stationery for the one in the discussion on the following page.

Now that I have explained the overall process of adding a background scroll to your stationery and told you what tools you will be using, in this discussion, to add a background scroll to your stationery, it's time to move on to the discussion. So, to learn how to add a background scroll to stationery and give you an opportunity add a background scroll to the example stationery, please click on the link below.

Adding A Background Scroll to Stationery

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The date this page was last updated was Sunday, August 10, 2003.