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lilblackgirl -> Looking for guidance (1/6/2007 9:26:29)

I've got a client who's dead set on a bg graphic that should not be a background. He'd like to take this layout that i put together -->

http://www.xaos21.com/site1/about.html

and use this as the background instead of the gray -->

http://myspace.mytheme.com/myspace-background/415912-11101274716414.gif

I've struggled trying to incorporate the gif, but no matter what i do, it always ends up looking tiled. Can anyone make a suggestion? And i'd like to just tell him that it's going to look tiled no matter what I do, but i wanted to exhaust all my avenues before telling him.

thanks!




womble -> RE: Looking for guidance (1/6/2007 9:41:40)

Personally I'd do him a quick mockup using that background gif so he gets to see the lovely (un)tiling effect firsthand, and then maybe he'll get the message that it just ain't gonna work.

A number of sites with background images that do tile where you might find something suitable:
- http://www.allfreebackgrounds.com/backgrounds.html
- http://www.backgroundcity.com/index.html
- http://www.grsites.com/ (a good one I've used a lot - I ended up getting their CD of all the different textures and backgrounds they have)
(there's another good one I've used in the past but I can't remember the site name, and I can'r find where I filed the bookmark - I'll have a root around.



jaybee -> RE: Looking for guidance (1/6/2007 10:44:45)

The only thing I can say about that background is

YIKES!!!!!!

For starters it's over 100kb and will slow the page down like crazy. Have you tried using a small corner of it and tiling that?



d a v e -> RE: Looking for guidance (1/6/2007 14:32:52)

stick with the grey! ;)



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