I visited a particular blog and when I scrolled down I found that the background was stationary. I found it to be pretty amusing (must have visited such sites thousands of times, but never observed carefully). So I thought even I should try and make the background stationary. Here's the trick:
Actually copied the trick from this site: http://www.backgroundcity.com/tips.html
It is full of other information too, so the trick, in short, is as follows:
The trick is complete before you start reading the orange text. But if you want you read on to see how i struggled with the posting of html code without it being interpreted as html code. I somehow found out the way around this and have used it here. To know more about that refer to the post on "How to show HTML examples without the same being interpreted as HTML".
MAKING A BACKGROUND STATIONARY (only text scrolls)
This method uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and should work on nearly every modern browser*
(*Thanks to Mark Roach for this handy additional tip!)
Well you could have copied the text given below as is but blogspot does not allow publishing of some html coding and stuff (remember I am only a novice). So in place of the first ü use the normal bracket <. The rest is simple copy paste.
übody style="background-image: url(background.gif); background-repeat:
repeat; background-attachment: fixed">
This method uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and should work on nearly every modern browser*
(*Thanks to Mark Roach for this handy additional tip!)