Background Repeat's Down?

[CrashMatRob]

Hi all,
I’m having a bit of a problem, this week I bought Web Designer MX Premium,
So to try to learn my way round I am trying to recreate a friend’s website he owns
which was made on a free website builder.

After looking at some of the posts and video tutorials I’m trying to do the stretchy
background thing. I know I’ve done it wrong somewhere?
If you care to take a look at the link, you will see it works fine until you zoom out of the
page (Ctrl+mouse wheel) then you can see the background has repeated down the page,
not sure how this happened or how to correct it, if any of you have any ideas it would be much appreciated.

Thanks
CrashMatRob

http://www.crashmatrob1.webspace.vir...pers/index.htm

[CrashMatRob]

I think it might be a little difficult to see what I've done wrong looking at the link above, so I have put all the files
on a NAS Drive in a zipped file, (will only work while my router is switched on)

http://82.30.247.48/shares/Public/

Cheers
CrashMatRob

[Drwyd]

Hi Rob

Try this

[CrashMatRob]

Cheers Drwyd,
I have looked at what you've taken the time to do,
done what you said and put the code in the head
but after copying the background then bring it back
I now get a white border around it, a bit like a page shadow.
Then when I use it has a background it tiles horizontally, (thou it's stopped tiling down)
I will continue to play with it and try to figure out what's going wrong.

Many Thanks
Rob

[Drwyd]

Make sure there are no shadows, borders etc. applied before you copy the bitmap.

Edit: To make it look like yours example it will have to be tiled horizontally.

[CrashMatRob]

Thanks again Drwyd
Slowly getting there but still having a few problems with it, i.e the transparency just cannot get it to look quite right.
I'm just learning a little at a time.

Cheer's for your help
Rob

[gwpriester]

As a variation, I would make a longer tile than you intend to go, then tile this as the page background. (Create the tiling image in the Bitmap Gallery and click Background. This applies the fill to the page.

When you preview, the page background tiles to fill the screen.

[CrashMatRob]

Thanks gwpriester for your input,

I had a look at the file you attached but when I preview it in I.E or Firefox, it had the same problem I started with,
"zoom out of the page (Ctrl+mouse wheel) then you can see the background has repeated down the page"

Not sure why I need to add the transparency, that was never my intention, I thought by Drwyd reply that what I should do?

I am beginning to think, because I have a textured fill in the lower section, is why it don't look right, i.e 2 shades of brown.
I have attached a file, not sure if I've done it right, perhaps someone will let me know.

Many Thanks
Rob

[Drwyd]

Hi Rob

The transparency allows you to use any length of page. i.e. when the page is longer than the background the solid colour takes over. If none of your pages exceed the depth of the background then this will not be needed.

[CrashMatRob]

Hi Drwyd
Thanks a ton for your time and input, I think I now have enough information to try to work it out,
it's more a case of trial and error with me, I read through the post's a fair amount and try to pick up tips.

I'll leave you in peace now, that is until my next problem?

Thanks
Rob