Here's a tip on how to make a "watermark" background for your website. This is not to be confused with the "watermark" HTML feature that is exclusive to MSIE. This tip is about creating the "faded" background graphic.
It's ridiculously easy. The cool thing about backgrounds is that the browser will "tile" the graphic for you. That means you only have to create a relatively small graphic and the browser will duplicate it as many times as it needs to, to fill out the screen
1) Select the graphic you wish to make the watermark, i.e. a logo
2) Click Effects/Grayscale/Apply.
3) *Optional* Click Arrange/Rotation/-45/Apply.
4) Click Effects/Transparent/Details/70/Apply.
5) Continue to click Apply until you get the shade you want.
6) Do the happy dance!
Notes:
a) Make sure your final graphic is not larger than 300 x 300 pixels. Any larger and the
image will not tile correctly at smaller screen resolutions like 640x480 and will only add
to the download time.
b) Optimize a color palette for this final image before you
save it.
c) Save this graphic as a GIF.
d) Set this background graphic in this HTML tag:
<body background="foo.gif">