Background Alignment

[zellerscrossing]

I am struggling with putting background images in my sites. I am using Dreamweaver 8.

I am just having trouble aligning the image where I want it to go, say a colored border along the left side of the page. This seems simple enough, but I can't grasp it and am going all self taught.

Thanks for any advice, articles, steps, etc....

[dm01]

Is this border solid or patterned? You might have more luck with a strict CSS border: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_border.asp.

[zellerscrossing]

Thank you first off for reminding me about the w3school site. I actually had it saved in my favorites and had forgotten about it. A lot of what I see on that site is coding which I don't understand a lot of. I mainly only know how to use authoring programs, but I certainly want to learn the code eventually as well.

Anyway, back on track, maybe border is the wrong word. I was viewing other threads on this forum and someone posted this site in their question:

http://www.deltahaze.com/

This site actually shows exactly what I want to do. Say I had that music note graphic and I wanted to do exactly what he/she has done with it. What steps would I take in dreamweaver for it to come out like it did.

If this is too much for just one simple answer, I understand. If you can just set me in the right direction I am trying the best I can to grasp this stuff.

Thank You DM01 and anyone else who wishes to help out. :)

[dm01]

Oh, I see. That's a CSS Background image, which is quite simple to do.

I don't use Dreamweaver, I can only tell you how to do this by hand. If you put this in the <style type="text/css"> for each page that needs this, the effect will be the same.

body
{
/*This is a comment that explains what each attribute does. Text within comments will not be parsed by the interpreter (browser)*/
background-image: url(/*url_of_image*/);
background-color: #000000; /*for if image is unavailable, any hex or rgb colour will work*/
background-repeat: repeat; /*background repeats horizontally and vertically*/
background-repeat: repeat-x; /*background repeats horizontally*/
background-repeat: repeat-y; /*background repeats vertically*/
backgroud-repeat: no-repeat; /*background does not repeat (displays once)*/
}

[zellerscrossing]

Hey thanks DM01. I wish I wasn't so far behind. Like I said, I wish to know the code but I just sort of want to figure out the dreamweaver for now.

At least I know its pretty simple now...should be anyway.

Anybody out there know how to do this with Dreamweaver?

Thanks....

(and thank you again DM01)