How dumb am I

programming web dev
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Hi guys,

I know this is gonna seem silly, but my knowledge of html is zero… in all my sites i use a white background and i design them at 800x600 in flash…

but how do i make a site stretch all the way across the screen, no matter the resolution?

a good example of what i want to achieve is

www.dido.co.uk

how do they get that pattern to fill the background of the browser? is that does in flash or html??

where can i get the code to do that?

thanks… Billy :smiley:

2

erm… it’s a tiled background

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http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_backgrounds.asp

4

You can also use the auto-stretch feature in dreamweaver, this will allow you to tile an image vertically across the browser so that your site always fills 100% of the window regardless of teh resolution. This is called Liquid Design
If you need any help leave me a message.

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here is my problem… i have tiled an image across the browser but i dont know how to align the main image to the tiled background!

http://www.starritt.co.uk/monkey_main

any ideas?

i use dreamweaver mx 2004… altho the tiled image appears to be aligned from the very top of the browser, when you import an image, there is a gap?

is there a simple solution here…

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Well, the only way I can think of is to set your image to align to the top as well, so the stripe lines up. To do this you would have to change one line of your code from this:

<td align="center" valign="middle"><img src="crying.jpg" width="800" height="500"></td>

to this:

<td align="center" valign="top"><img src="crying.jpg" width="800" height="500"></td>

There’s probably another way of doing this (dpower might know something I don’t), but maybe this will solve your problem.

Hope it helps! :beer: