I am new to SiteSpinner, but I have a simple tip from publishing a few articles. There are many ways to get interesting backgrounds. You can use pictures with a subdued color scheme, take pictures of fancy resume paper, or take pictures of various textured materials such as particle board. Having a photo editor helps improve these.
Larry

lets say you take a picture that you want to use as the background. Using the background feature is there a way to control the size that the picture now occulies as the background? I can't figure it out -

Thanks

If you use the Page Editor > Background tab, then you are stuck with the size of your source image. It is positioned in one place too -- top left of your finished page.

Tiling is a neat trick -- a small image file gives a lot of page cover. There are many possiblities too with very thin images only a few pixels wide or tall. There are some examples in the tempates that ship with SiteSpinner.

You can also place a background on your page as a regular image -- send it 'To Back' (button on the bottom toolbar). This allows you to apply all the usual image treatments -- resizing, recoloring and repositioning.

First of all this is a great program, I am a Front Page user and like this even better. The price is right too.
I am having problems getting the background to link on the published web site at thunderstixx.com. there appears to be a broken link on it and it won't display. What am I doing wrong. I used the page editor and it did upload but it still won't display the tiled background.
Also there are a zillion sites for backgrounds on the web that are quite nice and will save you lots of time. Just type in backgrounds at google and follow one of the many thousands of links.

I can see your background image just fine. A star tiled right?

j razz
www.jrazzcreations.com

Wonder why it won't come through on mine? I'm using firefow would that make a difference?
Actually it does, why would that be. I can see it on IE 7 and not on Firefox...sucks to be old.

I don't see it in Firefox either.

Your background image is called Star Background 1.gif. Try removing the spaces from the file name to give something like StarBackground1.gif. Generally you should avoid spaces and punctuation in file and page names.