Tips and tricks for your Art Website: Fauxmatting

This week - FauxMatting
Let's face it, art looks naked without a mat.

Here's a fine man without a mat:

Same pic, with pseudo-mat:

Cheap'n'easy trick - put the pic inside a one-celled table 20-30 pixels larger in both height and width from the image. Set the background color of the table to be whatever you want the 'mat color' to be, and set the alignment to center in both directions and voila.

Add another one-celled table for a pseudo-double mat: