Here you can learn a little more why this page is so awesome to me!

Brittany and I making funny faces at Disneyland boardwalk

Brittany and I had quite an excursion down to Riverside, California to see a cousin's wedding and eventually we ended up at the Disneyland Boardwalk. [Photographer: Brittany Lee Maxfield]

Brittany and I in engagement photo

Here I am with my beautiful wife when I was a respectable person, during our engagement. Alot has changed since then! hahaha! [Photographer: Tara Franks]

Now using some of the example backgrounds that the book "Build Your Own Website the Right Way", I will attempt to demostrate some background images

Repeated Background

I think this is how it works?
This is what is called a repeated background image. As you can see the picture I choose really gives that away.

Vertical Fade

And this is how you do this!
Interesting enough, this is called a horizontal repeat with a vertically created image.
This is partly accomplished with a "x-axis" "y-axis" realationship.

Horizontal Fade

...It has taken me a couple of weeks to figure this out...
This is the same idea as the horizontal repeat above but this is called a vertical repeat and it has the same funny idea to use an image that is created horizontally.

Non-Repeated Images

Here is just a simple "non-repeating" image
All I did was specify that there should be no repeats in the CSS.

Fixed Heights and Widths

For cleanliness reasons, I moved my fixed heights and widths example to a new page so that we can get the full effect.