Megan — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:57:07 +0000

I just want to add that you should do a little bit of reading up on CSS since that's what you'll be using to call the backgrounds. I hope this works - I just did a mimimal test on it so there might be a few issues.

tomaine2002 — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:56:41 +0000

Thank you so much. I didn't know you could do that (I'm no pro at HTML) I'll do that ot my site once I've gotten the background pics made up.

Megan — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:08:57 +0000

Actually, given the layout of the site this might be fairly simple to do:
Styles

#topsection {background-image: url(topsection.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat;}
#jokessection {background-image: url(midsection.gif); background-repeat: repeat-y;} 
#bottomsection { background-image: url(bottomsection.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat;}

'The repeat-y command tells that background to repeat as long as it covers the contents of the div. The other two won't repeat at all, so you'll want to make sure that the graphics cover the area appropriately.

Code

<div id="topsection">Top section with logo</div>

<div id="jokessection">Middle section with random joke</div>

<div id="bottomsection">Bottom section with links</div>

Megan — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:59:07 +0000

What you'll have to do is break up the graphic into sections and use tables to lay out the page and tile the background appropriately. Before you do this you're going to have to get up to speed on tables and using them for layout. HOwever, using tables for layout is an outdated mode of design. CSS is the way to go now. Switching to a CSS layout model does require some change in attitude in terms of how design and layout should work.

tomaine2002 — Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:26:58 +0000

I used a background tag. I really dont know CSS. i just used a solid color (yellow) i made it . I want to make it a pic that contours to my page, but I dont know how

Megan — Mon, 12 Apr 2004 13:20:06 +0000

I don't see a background image there, did you take it out? How did you originally try to set the background? Did you use CSS or did you use a background attribute? What tag was it applied to?