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jcraig713 Posts: 10 Joined: 4/7/2009 Status: offline	A newby question - 4/7/2009 9:34:04 Hello. I am a newer web builder, learning as I go but completely passionate about doing so. I am hoping someone can direct me to an understanding of how something works. When I put a background picture in my FP web, and preview it in my browser, the image is cascading... why? I tried to "chop" the image into a table and still, the image cascades within the table cells. I tried to get info off the web about .css files?? and added what I thought needed to be to get the picture to stop cascading and now the picture does not even show in my web any longer. RATS! What can I do to make this not work like that (cascading and such). I am sure this is an elementary question for most people here... but I want to learn. Thanks in advance for your help. A copy of my code is pasted below. <html> <head> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>New Page 1</title> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('website_reference.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center; } </style> </head> <body background="images/website_reference.png"> </body> </html>


d a v e Posts: 4348 Joined: 7/24/2002 From: England (but live in Finland now) Status: offline	RE: A newby question - 4/7/2009 9:42:46 you already have the background image defined in your stylesheet so you can change this <body background="images/website_reference.png"> to just this <body> _____________________________ David Prescott Gekko web design (in reply to jcraig713)


jcraig713 Posts: 10 Joined: 4/7/2009 Status: offline	RE: A newby question - 4/7/2009 10:36:28 Thanks. My code now looks like this below. The background image disappeared from my page and when I preview it in browser, there is no image. Do I have to have a style sheet in my web> All I have is my index page. <html> <head> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> <meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <title>New Page 1</title> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('website_reference.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center; } </style> </head> <body> </body> </html> (in reply to d a v e)


TexasWebDevelopers Posts: 722 Joined: 2/22/2002 From: Dallas, TX Status: offline	RE: A newby question - 4/7/2009 11:06:14 This: <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('website_reference.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center; } </style> Should be this: <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('images/website_reference.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: center; } </style> _____________________________ Follow us on TWITTER (in reply to jcraig713)


jcraig713 Posts: 10 Joined: 4/7/2009 Status: offline	RE: A newby question - 4/7/2009 13:23:04 Thanks! Do you know of an online class or alike where I could get training? (in reply to TexasWebDevelopers)


Tailslide Posts: 6692 Joined: 5/10/2005 From: Out here on the raggedy edge Status: offline	RE: A newby question - 4/8/2009 1:51:42 Frankly most classes (online or not) aren't teaching "good" web design - by the time a course is codified it's usually out of date. Most still teach Frames and Tables and WYSIWYG editors. If you really want to learn how to do it properly then you need to understand the code itself. Pick yourself up a freebie HTML editor such as HTML kit or PSPad or Crimson Editor and look for good tutorials such as: http://www.htmldog.com _____________________________ Little Blue Plane Web Design \| Land Rover project (in reply to jcraig713)