Nick and James form Creare demonstrate the basics of implementing backgrounds in CSS for you website. The tutorial covers standard colour, tiling a graphic, applying gradiants and fixed graphic backgrounds. Check out the supporting blog post at http://www.crearedesign.co.uk/blog/videos/css-backgrounds.html
Duration : 0:9:46
good video but …
good video but number four, creating a fixed background, is kind of wrong.. fixed backgrounds have a: background-attachment:fixed; in the CSS code and then you can position it, this prevents it scrolling when you use the scrollbar.
Hi skept725. This …
Hi skept725. This isn’t an easy question to answer because screen resolutions/monitor sizes vary.
I would make it 1200 pixels wide by 1000 high as a good starting size.
If you can apply CSS to your blog’s background, then you can use the no-repeat attribute to stop the background from tiling.
I’m trying to …
I’m trying to create a background in PS for my blogger blog. What dimensions would I need to create my background to fill the whole screen without tiling? Or is that possible? Do you guys have any tuts on this? I know this is a very popular subject amongst bloggers tyring to customize their blogs. Thx! Great tut by the way.
Great video once …
Great video once again guys! 5/5