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BC
09-15-2000, 06:50 AM
What I am trying to do is build a web site and need help with getting the background just right. here is a site <u>www.bobcat.com</u> they have given me permission to use whatever I want off of there site and I have done so but I am needing a background similar. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
bc
howste
09-15-2000, 07:51 AM
What do you mean by background? Do you mean the dark blue background, or the other stuff in front of it? Here's code for a page with just the background color:

&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body bgcolor="#003366"&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;

If that's not what you meant, post back and we can try again.

Steve
BC
09-15-2000, 11:48 AM
well the background that I am refering to is Blue on the right side and white on the left.
howste
09-15-2000, 03:41 PM
The white part of the page is actually on top of the blue background. The code they are using on that page is pretty complicated. Below is an example some much simpler code for you to look at that might be able to accomplish what you are wanting to do.
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body bgcolor="#003366"&gt;
&lt;table bgcolor="#ffffff" columns="3" width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"&gt;
&lt;tr valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td width="20%"&gt;1st Menu&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Item&lt;li&gt;Item&lt;li&gt;Item&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="60%"&gt;Column 2&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td width="20%" bgcolor="#003366"&gt;&lt;font color="#ffffff"&gt;Column 3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr valign="top"&gt;
&lt;td bgcolor="#ff3366"&gt;2nd Menu&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Item&lt;li&gt;Item&lt;li&gt;Item&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Column 2&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td bgcolor="#003366"&gt;&lt;font color="#ffffff"&gt;Column 3&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
It still uses the blue background, but then has a table with a white background which you can put text and pictures into. You can also change the color of individual rows or cells. Just copy the code into a text file and save it. Open it in your browser. Then you can go back to the text file and change things to see what happens.

I hope this helps http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Steve
BC
09-15-2000, 09:01 PM
TY
**** is it small enough?
LOL
Beemers
09-16-2000, 08:55 AM
Go to the page that you have mentioned and right click on the background and "Save Picture As" into a folder of your choosing. Upload the file that you have saved, to your file manager. Copy the address of the uploaded file. Open you web page for editing in Front Page Express and in the toolbar look for Format, Background and then source it to the address of the image. When using Front Page Express you have to paste your image address into the http slot and then my own little trick (since the address is lost most of the time with this process) is to backspace the .htm or .html and manually type it back in. This will force a save of the address information. Save As into a folder and then upload the page to your file manager.

If it doesn't save for some reason then just View, HTML, in Front Page Express and add the address manually.

Let a program do the work for the more common stuff.

Cheers!
BC
09-18-2000, 07:17 AM
thanks beemers, but I have tried that and I don't get the option to save background. That is why I need the help.
BC
09-18-2000, 07:57 AM
Howste-
Thanks that did it!! So hopefully now in the near future I can get my site up and going. And I learned a new trick. So now I can look at where you took that from there site and put it to use on my site thanks.