Ok Bartender, by coincidence, I've been trying without success to stick a picture behind my blog columns.
What's the trick? It looks great!
Posted by Ted at November 20, 2003 01:59 AMHere is the code in my StyleSheet to display the beer bottles that I have up right now:
body {
margin:15px 45px 15px 45px;
background-image:url(http://madfishwillies.mu.nu/images/beercollage.jpg);
}
You can get more info here: Background Images
I think the pic is a little overpowering but fits the theme of the site. Probably will change it out or do some photo edting and change the yellow to a light grey or something.
Posted by The Bartender at November 20, 2003 03:52 AMWow! Completely unreadable! Makes my head hurt even when I'm not looking at it!
Posted by Pixy Misa at November 20, 2003 05:27 AMPixy: does that mean I should change it? I thought it was A BIT MUCH, but I'll keep it up a couple of days and let everybody get a hangover!
Posted by The Bartender at November 20, 2003 06:28 AMWhat Pixy means is that in Mozilla we don't see the aqua boxes that the text shows up in with IE--we just see the words right over the bottles. If you could get the aqua boxes to show up in Mozilla it would be fine!
Posted by Susie at November 20, 2003 07:23 AMWhat is the deal with Mozilla not being able to read web sites? Seems like there are many, many issues with that particular browser. If there are so many problems with it, why do people use it? Just curious as to why you decide to use that instead of IE?
Posted by The Bartender at November 20, 2003 09:01 AMI don't understand why the pics before weren't showing through the background. The only change I made in the code was to the url. Would there be any difference in the way the browser handles a .gif and a .jpg image?
Posted by The Bartender at November 20, 2003 09:09 AMThanks. I'm discovering that the html I learned several years ago still works thanks to backwards compatibility, but the language has eveolved far beyond the simple stuff I used to do.
Posted by Ted at November 20, 2003 02:21 PMBartender - Mozilla works fine (much better than IE) if your HTML and CSS are correct. IE doesn't follow the standards very well; it just splats whatever it wants to on the screen. The fact that something works in a particular version of IE is no indication that it is correct, or will work in any other browser, or indeed will work in a different version of IE.
Posted by Pixy Misa at November 20, 2003 02:54 PMPixy: Where can I go to find out what css / html codes are doing the funny stuff to my site? Should I code and preview on Mozilla and then everything will work on both?
Posted by The Bartender at November 20, 2003 04:00 PM