Anybody know how to do a gradient color shift in a background?

It can't be done in html, only in an image editor.

yeah look for a gradient bg image strip and put it in your background command in html...

like teammatt3 said ... this isn't done in code, it is done with a graphic as a background.

What you need to do is create a strip (depending on horizontal or vertical) being very large in the direction you want (I use something in range of 1500x10). Then you use that strip in your background and let it tile thus creating the effect. I would use CSS to do this because if you end up with a user with an enormous screen res. then they will see the image stop (like in my example, might go two far down thus the image stops after 1500), so you solve this by declaring a default color background to the last color in your gradient so it just looks like it fades out to that final color. I'm not sure if I did the best job explaining this so if you have any more questions let me know. I'm guessing you are looking for something similar to this (functionally) http://www.cis.ksu.edu/~ryand/portfolio/

Very nice portfolio but dont use 1500 X 10. Insted try 1500 X 1. Same effect and you dont have to load another 13500 pixles.

and thus I learn a bit in the process as well ... Thanks bja888

I have never had any troubles creating a 1px image. Like which programs are u talking about?