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"With an apple I will astonish Paris."

--Paul Cezanne

"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments."

--Ayn Rand

"I may not know art, but I know what I like."

--Attributed to Sen. Jesse Helms

"Jesse Helms wouldn't know a good piece of art from a wad of chewing tobacco. "

--Jack Hebenstreit

"No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist."

--Ludwig Von Beethoven

The border at left is musicborder.gif. It has 1200 pixels of whitespace to the right, so you can use it as a background image on a pretty wide page without your readers seeing it repeat. The barberpole at right reflects Rick's hobby, barbershop harmony (about which you can find more on our dessert menu).

"There is a very fine line between 'hobby' and 'mental illness.'"

--Dave Barry

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"

-George Bernard Shaw

"In my opinion, an impossible situation only really stands out when the impossibility is not immediately obvious. If you want to draw attention to something impossible, you must try to deceive first yourself and then your audience, by presenting your work in such a way that the impossible element is veiled and a superficial observer would not even notice it."

--M. C. Escher

"Art is anything you can get away with."

--Terence Trent D'Arby

"Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth."

--Pablo Picasso

"Picasso is a communist. Neither am I."

--Salvador DalÌ

The drop shadow on the image at left is made of five pieces, as you can see at right. What you can't see is that the long pieces along the bottom and right edges are really tiny images that are stretched out by the height and width attributes of the <IMG> tag. Here's an example of how the width attribute can be used to change an element's appearance:
Actual size:

width=10

width=20

width=40

Thus you can use the same elements to create a drop shadow of any dimensions.

A similar trick is used below with a 1x15 GIF file eponymously called fadetoblack...only this time, instead of calculating the required width, it is simply specified as the background image in a table cell.

The image below is fire.jpg. You can use it as a bottom border by making it the background of a table cell that is exactly 128 pixels high. See the Animations category for more fire.