Background for Web Pages

[Inca1]

I am new to webpage design and need a little help. I want my background to look something like the following example. I can do the graphic work but I do not know how to set it up in Dreamweaver correctly. To see how it works I copied the background from this sample and I went to Dreamweaver and went to Page Properties and set the background to this sample and it did not look nothing like this. What am I doing wrong?

http://www.gemline.com

 

[glenmac]

There is no background set for the body of that page. There is background colors set for some individual div elements. It's all done with the style sheets. You can view them be viewing the source and then opening the css style sheets linked in the head section. The whole page is laid out using CSS. As you are new webdesign I suggest you research css page layout.

Glen

http://lantzvillecomputers.ca

 

[PaulBricker]

Glen can you be a little more explicit about viewing the stylesheets. I know you can View...Source and at that point, you see

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="controls/includes/main-base.css" />
<style type="text/css">@import "controls/includes/main-dom.css";</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="controls/includes/homepage.css" />

At that point,

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.gemline.com/controls/includes/homepage.css[/URL]

doesn't give me any page I can view. I know I'm missing something here.

Thanks for any help with this.

Paul

 

[glenmac]

Hmm the last address you posted should either show you the css sheet or ask you if you wish to save/open it in IE then you can save it and use open with notepad or for that matter Dreamweaver ( I'm an Notepad kinda guy). If you are getting no response I beleive it's a browser setting problem. As I can view the css sheet I'm not sure how to fix it for you. Sorry but the when I go to the address you have posted it works fine for me.
Anyone Else????

Glen

http://lantzvillecomputers.ca

 

[glenmac]

Just thinking, you can make sure windows will open the css file by associating Notepad.exe with css file types. A quick and dirty way to do that is to create a css file test.css in notepad (any text in the file will do) and save it as all files, then right click the said file and open with choose program, when the open with dialogue box opens choose notepad and make sure the always use this program for this file type is checked. Then when you dl a css file it will open with notepad. Thats the way my machine is set up anyway, so I think it should work for you. Hope this helps.

Glen

http://lantzvillecomputers.ca

 

[PaulBricker]

Thanks Glen but I'm not having any luck with this. I understand your instructions quite well and they did seem plausable. I think what I'm not sure about is the path of the file you can see vs. what I'm trying.

Thanks a lot.

Paul

 

[joxx]

Paul,
Just go to gemline.com and then on the file menu click 'save as.'
Save it somewhere, it will save the page and also a folder of the same name - in that folder are all the files.
hth

 

[PaulBricker]

Wow. Appreciate the tip.

Paul