HTML help?

[Zeus]

Hey everyone not sure if this is the right forum but I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I made a custom background for my site from scratch in photoshop cs. I saved it and the image shows up perfectly in my website but it keeps on repeating. The image is supposed to be a news background and I only want it to show up once (stretched across the page). Any HTML experts wanna help me fix this?

BTW, do I have to use cascading style sheets? Or will html work?

 

[Ames]

Gogogo.

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol5/css_no23.htm

 

[Zeus]

thanks, now all I need is to get my guestbook working and my site is done

 

[Zeus]

If you guys wanna check out my site

http://coryc.50megs.com/index.html

Go easy, it's my first EVER attempt at real web design (by real I mean actually coding not using templates) Also please leave some comments in my guestbook.

 

[SpuD]

Font too big

 

[Letters]

So... everything that's not on the side is just the background? :O Hehe...

 

[Zeus]

Where is the font too big? On the dates of the front page?

 

[Ikerous]

So... everything that's not on the side is just the background? :O Hehe...

Lol XD That and the words 'Home Page'
Thats gunna be fun to update :-/

I like the table script though.

 

[Ames]

It doesn't look right in different resolutions.

 

[Some_God]

CSS is a biatch to learn.

 

[Zeus]

Fixed the text too big under news. I left the home page big because thats how I want it.

How can I get it to work right in different resolutions? Any tips?

EDIT- Fixed the homepage color to be the same as the rest of the page's

 

[StardogChampion]

I would say not to use tables for the layout. Try to learn CSS as soon as you can.

In the long run CSS will be more helpful, so if you're just beginning it's probably best to learn it first. The only think is that Internet Explorer handles a lot of CSS badly, and won't be updated until Longhorn comes out, but if you use the correct Doctype, it can do pretty well.

But anywayyy... I've probably just confused you

Here's some links:
http://www.hotdesign.com/seybold
http://www.htmlite.com/SD008.php

 

[Zeus]

alright. first I must master HTML then I will move onto CSS