Any HTML wizards out there? I need some help with backgrounds.

Aphrodite_Nymphia

Aphrodite_Nymphia

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Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone could help me with a problem I have. I want to make a template to use on e-Bay, actually strike that I already have one, but the problem is I don't seem to be able to work out the background. At the moment I my background is a tiled image of pink roses on a black background, but it can be a bit distracting and I would rather it was a border of sorts instead. Dorotheas Closet do something similar with their template, but what I am really going for is something a bit like my MySpace page (http://www.myspace.com/aphrodite_nymphia) with the roses in the background and the writing in a large black box with a blue border. Maybe it is really easy to do and I just don't know where to look, but I would be really grateful if someone could point me in the right direction.

Emma.
 
The easiest way to do this using basic html is to define a table with a width of 100% which uses your background tiled image of the rose and with its table data centered. Then you need to put a new table within that table (using a number of hard breaks to position the start of the table) and specify an exact width, border color, cellpadding, etc. that you want. This table contains your text and photos. By selecting a background color for this nested table, you will block out the rose background.
 
l wonder to keep it simple do you have a template of your own site, for a new page say...and then you can edit it...and copy/pastes/click orry if you have already tried this....
 
Ahh Maggie, I think I get it now. I had to read that through a few times before my not so technically gifted mind got it, but it seems simple enough. Thank you to everyone else too, I will try your ideas out and let you know how I get on.


Emma.
 
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