Background graphic question?

Hello, I'm very new to using Dreamwaeaver and I'd like to create a background graphic that has text across it so that it is basically in the background at all times on my main web page. I've been looking at inserting the image file and playing with the transparecy feature in the properties of the file but I don't yet understand what I need to do to create this image file for the overall background of the page. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Using CSS code either in your external stylesheet (preferred) or between the <style> and </style> tags in your HTML document, you can repeat or tile the image across your page like so.
body {
background: url(some-bg-image.jpg) repeat;
Or if you don't want the image to repeat, you can center the background image and add color to fill in the empty areas around it like this:
body {
background: #FFF url(some-bg-image.jpg) no-repeat center center;
More on Background Images:
http://alt-web.com/Backgrounds.shtml
Nancy O.
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