How to make this background...

[jagweb7]

Thanks for each of you taking the time to explain - I will be playing with to achieve a similar result. Awesome! Thanks again!

[Aartvark]

I'd like to see what you are ultimately able to come up with regarding this. I am the one that made the original, incidentally (I designed spooksparanormal.com), and you really could have just asked me. In any case, hopefully you will let me know how your attempts to emulate it go. I'd like to see the end result.

Incidentally, the image that makes up the background was just centered on the page like any other image (not on the pasteboard) and everything built over it. You need to turn off "Clip To Page Edges" on the "Website" tab of the "Web page Properties...". I don't know that this was the most efficient way of doing this, but it worked.

[mwenz]

Hi Aartvark--welcome to the madness.

The only reason to chop it up is for saving on the DL "weight" is all. The original is over 400k, the 3-piece version I did is about 60k. The site is pretty nice. Well done.

Take care, Mike

[Aartvark]

Ahhhh..... 3 pieces. I wasn't getting that from your previous post. I hadn't even thought of making it in 3 pieces. I actually did chop out the middle "cookie cutter" style originally, but it didn't make a big difference because even the transparent part contributes to the file size, but in 3 pieces, it definitely would. Wow.... I feel kinda stupid. Oh, to go back and re-do it now would be a pain. Damn. It's on every page. LOL. Eventually I will.

[lylacinc]

I'd like to see what you are ultimately able to come up with regarding this. I am the one that made the original, incidentally (I designed spooksparanormal.com), and you really could have just asked me. In any case, hopefully you will let me know how your attempts to emulate it go. I'd like to see the end result.

Incidentally, the image that makes up the background was just centered on the page like any other image (not on the pasteboard) and everything built over it. You need to turn off "Clip To Page Edges" on the "Website" tab of the "Web page Properties...". I don't know that this was the most efficient way of doing this, but it worked.

Thanks for this explanation. Was able to follow and get what I needed done.