Web page background graphic

I am new at Xara and have another problem I can't seem to find the answer for. I know how to color a web page background. But how can a graphic be inserted as the background, like this sample done in Dreamweaver?

http://okvts.com/xara_bg.html

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Please see this recent thread

► http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?p=346872

Wow, amazing. I am starting to get the hang of the this system. Beats DW...

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This is looks veryeasy, but how does this work with different monitor sizes?

I know Xara is absolute positioning HTML, so if I make a background to fit a widescreen monitor, will a person who uses a "normal" LCD have scroll bars at the bottom just to show all of the background?

--I just checked this and I do get scroll bars with a background larger than my monitor resolution.--

Any way around the scroll bars?

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Bassman, if you make your fixed-size pages larger than someone's screen size they will get scroll bars, there is no way around that.

The only real answer for fixed-size placement is to make your pages small enough to fit on the majority of screens, and live with the rest. As I recall, most screens now are at least 1024 across, and Xtreme5 has a 955x700 size in the properties menu that will serve nicely.

Thanks.

So this is something that Xara can not achieve?

I was hoping to get something like the ESPN site where the background goes as wide as the browser and integrates with the page.

No, Xara's products create fixed-size page layouts. What you're seeing on other sites are "floating" or "jello" layouts and Xara doesn't support them. Such sites are generally hand-coded in HTML/CSS.

Thanks a lot.

Now, one thing that does happen is if you set a color or bitmap as the page background, and the viewer's browser resolution is larger than your fixed page size, Xara-generated pages will fill the extra space with the background you set.

I have another question.

I just pulled the lightbox web template (it has a grey background) and set the page size to 955 pix and exported the page.

When I opened the page in Internet Explorer, the background was grey all over my 1655 pix monitor.

So this background seems to scale.

Any reason or thing to know how and why?

Thank you.

Check my last post, just above yours. The background you set for the page will expand to fill your screen if it's larger than the page size you set, but the actual content you place on the page will not. :cool:

Sorry to be learning and posting at the same time!

I swapped the grey background with a 4000px photo and the background also filled my 1655px browser without scroll bars.

So I guess it works just fine!

Any input would be appreciated as I am quite new to this interesting program.

Thank you.

I see now.

The first time I tried this, I used a stock image in Xara which was not very large, so I expanded the image. This seemed to cause the scroll bars.

With a proper sized image, the background does not create scroll bars.

Great.

Thanks for your quick replies!

No problem. This stuff is pretty good fun, and half the fun is experimenting and seeing what happens when you push the red button! :D

Here's another background trick: you can have an expanding background image or color that fills the whole browser screen (assuming the browser screen is larger than your page size) AND have a different background for the actual page size itself. I did that on my web sit (link in sig). Just set the background normally, then create a box sized the same as your page and align it so it's perfectly matched up. Lock it, and voila. Place all your page content inside the box and you get the best of both worlds.

You can even feather the edges of the box you place, and end up with a nice fading effect between the page and the larger background area.

Sounds nice.

This program seems like it will grow on me the more I use it.

I'm trying to make various sized backgrounds-fairly small, mostly plain color but shaded not a solid color. Also, some of theme would have some text. I'm in the free version and want to know if this is achievable with this software and the difficulty level.

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I'm in the free version

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There is no free version for Windows that I am aware of, but there are 30 day trials of Web Designer and Designer Pro.

Is there an example of what you want that you can post?