How do I keep the body background-image centered?

Question

I have a body background-image that does not fill up the
entire window on the tops and bottoms of most monitors (it
strectches to the left and right just fine) and so I would like to
have it centered vertically with equal amounts of the
background-color #ECE5C8.
I assumed using background-position: 50% 50% would do the
trick and it does until switching to full screen mode and all the
content jumps upwards and messes up the whole site layout (IE
only-in friefox, the background-image still doesn't center) so
instead I have the background-position set to: 50% 0%.
Thanks a million to anyone who can help me get it centered, I
know there has to be an easy fix but I sure can't figure it out!
The site can be found here:
http://www.lightspacewebdesign.com/sacredsolas

Answer 1

There would be only two ways to make this layout 'work'.
1. Just make everything on that page a graphic. Then there is
no
possibility that resizing the text in the browser will blow
the layout.
This is a very bad idea for obvious reasons.
2. Have the text containing 'graphical box' built in pieces
so that as the
text expands, it can cause the box to expand as well. The
easiest way to do
this is with a top a middle and a bottom image of the box,
using each as the
background image of three stacked containers. Place the text
in the middle
container and as it expands, it will tile the middle
background image
vertically to give the impression of the box expanding. This
approach
doesn't lend itself to your background image, since there is
no way to tile
the background image to fill the newly created space.
Beyond that, I think you are a dead duck. The problem is not
that this is
what you were given to work with - it's that you didn't
understand how
unusable the design was when you accepted it. I think your
best option now
is to go back to the designer and explain to them how this
lovely layout
only works well in print, and not on the web. Show them how
it fails.
Solicit suggestions from them for how to make it work in a
medium where
there is no way to control the size of the text.
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
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"afriendofcheese" <[email protected]> wrote
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> By "a rigid layout scheme that cannot allow flexibility"
I assume you mean
> that
> everything shouldn't be bound inside the position of the
background-image,
> but
> this is what the designer and client gave me to work
with.and so I have to
> make
> due.
>
> With that in mind, I hope someone out there can help me
out with this!
>