Placement of 2 background images

I want a background image for the body of my site like the one used here;
https://www.fortnumandmason.com/
The image they used is here;
https://www.fortnumandmason.com/Common/images/Global/bodyBkg015.jpg
They have used a big image, 100k i think. This seems wasteful. Is there a way of achieving the same thing but using smaller images and probably more divs?
I was thinking of adding a div around my container and setting it to be the pages's width and height, so in effect I could add CSS to 2 body tags. I could then have a background image for one aligned to the right, and background image to another aligned to the left.
The problem with that method is that as the window is resized, the background image will be moved and wont always touch the container div. Can I somehow set a background image to sit next to the container div? I think I could do this if the entire layout was in a 3 column table, but id rather find a CSS solution.
Thanks

I like the idea of a background image on the whole page. The difficulty with that is that you can't stretch a background image. But if you make the image large enough to cover and perhaps fade it into a color (or cleverly make the edges splice, so you can safely tile it...), you'll have all situations covered.
Take advantage of your graphics program...Fireworks, for example...to optimize the image to the most efficient size. If you need certain areas to be very clear, you can do selective jpeg optimization, where a selected area (need not be rectangular) is optimized to a higher percentage than the rest of the image.
I really don't like the slice and dice approach. The chance for breaking is very high. You have no way to control a viewer's penchant for enlarging the page or the text, and throwing the whole into disarray. The simpler, the better.
Keep in mind the image of nailing jello to a wall. Yeah, it slides down into a puddle.
Beth

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here's what I'm getting in the browser
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Your image files are pointing to your hard drive, not your server. You have this
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and you should have this
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Gary

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