How to add a background image to your 2D house:

You may have wondered why certain houses have an image background in 2D and others do not. :-) This is something you will have to configure for yourself because there are no special buttons to do it with. This is the simplest way to get a 2D house background image to your home.

1) The picture you want for your background must be on a website.
First, upload your background image to your own website. Be careful, images hosted on Angelfire, Geocities and Tripod will not appear in Cybertown. Fortunecity.com offers free web hosting and allows outside linking to images, while the others I mentioned do not.

2) Use the "homepage" field of your 2D house.
As I told you, there is no pre-defined field to put the url for your background image. So here is what you do:

Click on "my info", then open "personal info".
From that page, you can see a field where you can put your "homepage" url. Use this field to put the url of your background image.

3) Here is the code template to use:
<style>body{color=#FFFFFF;background:url(http://YourSite/YourImage.jpg);}</style>
Copy and paste this code to the field and substitute "your site" and "your image" with the proper url.

4) Here is another code that you can use:
[BACKGROUND]http://YourSite/YourImage.jpg[/BACKGROUND]

NB:
- The number of characters is limited in the homepage field.
Make sure you don't have a url that is too long.
- Your image file must be a .jpg or .gif file




There are other ways to add a background image to your 2D house. But don't try it if you are new to html :) Many people have lost parts of their 2D homes (i.e. inbox, buttons, chat window...) because they made mistakes with the codes! Check the links below if you would like help fixing any errors you may have made.

How to fix
and modify
your 2D house.



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