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That is a fairly advanced site, not for a beginner to attempt at first try -- it uses the latest XML for style, and the flower background has been specially constructed to wrap over the two text panes, as well as drape between them. &nbsp;You can see where the artist has actually air brushed parts of the background in Adobe Photoshop to fuzz it out where it comes close to the central text, as well as on the top border of the two text panes. &nbsp;A professional graphics artist has touched up this background image to look as good as it does.<br />
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That said, it is just a flowery background to the page, which you can find and create yourself for your own site. &nbsp;Here are some links that will help you get started. &nbsp;Remember, CSS styles the text and images and tables and DIVs on the page, it does not style a background image, that is all done in an image editor like Photoshop -- <br />
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<a href="http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-Style-Sheets/Building-CrossBrowser-Background-Effects-with-PNG-Images/" rel="ugc">www.devarticles.com/c/a/Web-Style-Sheets/Building-CrossBrowser-Background-Effects-with-PNG-Images/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.photoshopgurus.com/tutorials/t034.html" rel="ugc">www.photoshopgurus.com/tutorials/t034.html</a>&nbsp;<br />
<a href="http://www.devlounge.net/design/jazz-up-your-web-images-with-fancy-borders" rel="ugc">www.devlounge.net/design/jazz-up-your-web-images-with-fancy-borders</a><br />
<a href="http://www.webpagebackground.com/" rel="ugc">www.webpagebackground.com/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bigstockphoto.com/photo/view/2466635" rel="ugc">www.bigstockphoto.com/photo/view/2466635</a><br />
<a href="http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/background-floral.shtml" rel="ugc">www.webweaver.nu/clipart/background-floral.shtml</a><br />
<a href="http://www.webweaver.nu/clipart/flower-borders.shtml" rel="ugc">www.webweaver.nu/clipart/flower-borders.shtml</a>&nbsp;<br />
<a href="http://www.best-of-web.com/computer/clipart_all.shtml" rel="ugc">www.best-of-web.com/computer/clipart_all.shtml</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/styling-XML" rel="ugc">www.w3.org/Style/styling-XML</a><br />
<a href="http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Styling-XML-Content-with-CSS/10258" rel="ugc">www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Styling-XML-Content-with-CSS/10258</a><br />
<a href="https://co-public.lboro.ac.uk/corgs/bcs_xml/xml_css.htm" rel="ugc">https://co-public.lboro.ac.uk/corgs/bcs_xml/xml_css.htm</a>
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I think you accepted solutions a little too quickly, in the time it took me to post all the details, you had already closed the question !! &nbsp;Wait a little longer for more input.
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Sorry...they gave me the info I wanted :/
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Can anyone tell me where I can learn to create backgrounds such as the one shown here<br />
<a href="http://joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk/" rel="ugc">http://joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk/</a><br />
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I could take the code apart I guess, but does anyone know where I can get more info, like a website with tutorials and/or a book?<br />
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Thanks!!
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Can anyone tell me where I can learn to create backgrounds such as the one shown here
http://joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk/

I could take the code apart I guess, but does anyone know where I can get more info, like a website with tutorials and/or a book?

Thanks!!

Bold CSS Backgrounds - Where Can I learn to Do This??

Websites use graphics to enhance information, assist navigation, and generally improve the user’s experience. To create those graphics, developers use any number of programs, like the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop and Flash have their own topics), the CorelDraw suite, Xara, Gimp, ACDSee, Serif, ULead and others.

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