Re: new background

>Yes, I think we can all agree that it's a nice-looking image.  It would
>look great as a Web page background, but I can foresee 2 problems:
>
>1) Unless you expect all your users to have T1 lines, it'll take WAY too
>long to load.
>2) Anybody with a larger screen (I use 1024x768 at home) will see it
>tiled, and that will NOT look pretty.
>
>I would suggest taking a horizontal slice of the image - just enough
>vertically to include the rose and a bit of space above and below, and a
>purely vertical purple gradient on the left.  Then extend it
>horizontally to the right, to at least 1250 pixels.  That way, all
>anyone will ever see will be a vertical tiling effect.  I  just did this
>(took about 5 minutes - I can email it to you if you like) and the
>resulting file size is only about 17K.  Much better!
>
>Steve

You took the words right outta my mouth Steve.

enigma.

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