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[johnrobholmes]

I am trying to work my way through some basic editing here. Say I want a pic in my head.tpl behind the main banner so that the header stretches across the entire page no matter what screen. Would I just add another

<TD><A href="{$http_location}"><IMG src="{$ImagesDir}/EXAMPLE.jpg" width="100%" height="100%" border="0" alt="RC Rock Crawler"></A></TD>

after the main Banner script? Is my syntax right to make the size stretch to 100%? I want the header pic to be behind the Banner.

Thanks in advance for helping me get the ball rolling on a decent looking site. Any websites to help me with basic CSS language?

[johnrobholmes]

Alright, I just entered that in for kicks after some sleep and it didnt do what I wanted. The 100% commands squeezed my EXAMPLE.jpg to the proper size, but it is beside my banner instead of behind. Gonna do some more investigating.

On the same note, what if I want to place another graphic on the top right of my webpage?

[balinor]

I think perhaps you should start by learning about CSS. Good place to start is here:

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

If you enjoy books more, the O'Reilly guides are excellent.

[johnrobholmes]

Thank you Balinor. I have been studying some CSS sites and have been trying to see how it all fits together. I will try entering some background commands and see what happens.

[johnrobholmes]

alright, got some CSS language under my belt. Wasn't to hard to understand since I have been staring at it for a long time now.

My question now is this, do I modify my head.tpl to include a background in the header, or should I do it in my CSS style sheet? I guess that both ways will work?

[balinor]

Keep all of the classes themselves in the stylesheet, and just call the class from the template. All formatting should be in skin.css.

[johnrobholmes]

Cool, I will do that. Thanks Balinor!