Web page background graphic

**dirkE** · 29 January 2010, 05:08 PM

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

Thanks

**steve.ledger** · 29 January 2010, 10:16 PM

Please see this recent thread

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

**dirkE** · 29 January 2010, 10:27 PM

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

Thanks

**Bassman** · 30 January 2010, 11:11 PM

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?

Thanks

**Spinny** · 30 January 2010, 11:17 PM

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.

**Bassman** · 30 January 2010, 11:24 PM

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.

**Spinny** · 30 January 2010, 11:27 PM

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.

**Bassman** · 30 January 2010, 11:28 PM

Thanks a lot.

**Spinny** · 30 January 2010, 11:28 PM

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.

**Bassman** · 30 January 2010, 11:43 PM

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.