Placing a background image in fluid grid layout

Question

I am having trouble building a fluid grid layout  I am not sure why but when I shrink the layout it doesn't seem to work correctly
I need to do 2 things.
1) make the background image shrink as it is suppossd to. when you scale down the images doesn't shirink to tablet size and isn't there for the phone size (although I think I want a new image for phone with just one side of the (page image). on it so I assume I just link that in there under that section in in the css
2)It doesn't seem to want to align the writing so that it is only over the page section of the background image on each side (the rightcontent and left content boxes-ie they should look like text on a page)
also I want to take the page here when it is finished and make it a template for further pages (just changing the text) is that done the same as usual for the fluid grids?
Thank you in advance for the help
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Answer 1

Kind of makes sense.
I am not sure how to make the div tag layouts relative to the background image.
please advise.
also, I have been playing with it and it seems to be working better now.
But the issue I have with it now is that the image on the right side of the page keeps showing at the bottom of the page instead of on the top of the page directly next to the wording on the left.
does anyone know why?
I am sure it is just a simple coding issue.
help
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@charset "utf-8";
/* Simple fluid media
   Note: Fluid media requires that you remove the media's height and width attributes from the HTML
   http://www.alistapart.com/articles/fluid-images/
img, object, embed, video {
    max-width: 100%;   
/* IE 6 does not support max-width so default to width 100% */
.ie6 img {
    width: 100%;
    Dreamweaver Fluid Grid Properties
    dw-num-cols-mobile:        5;
    dw-num-cols-tablet:        8;
    dw-num-cols-desktop:    12;
    dw-gutter-percentage:    25;
    Inspiration from "Responsive Web Design" by Ethan Marcotte
    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design
    and Golden Grid System by Joni Korpi
    http://goldengridsystem.com/
/* Mobile Layout: 480px and below. */
.gridContainer {
    width: 85%;
    padding-left: 1.82%;
    padding-right: 1.82%;
    background: url(../images/DSC_0014.jpg) center fixed;
    -webkit-background-size: cover;
      -moz-background-size: cover;
      -o-background-size: cover;
      -background-size: cover;
#LayoutDiv1 {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#header {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#menubar {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#leftcontent {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
    height:auto;
#rightcontent {
    clear: both;
    float: right;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
    height:auto;
#footer {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
/* Tablet Layout: 481px to 768px. Inherits styles from: Mobile Layout. */
@media only screen and (min-width: 481px) {
.gridContainer {
    width: 90.675%;
    padding-left: 1.1625%;
    padding-right: 1.1625%;
    background: url(../images/DSC_0013.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
      -webkit-background-size: cover;
      -moz-background-size: cover;
      -o-background-size: cover;
      -background-size: cover;
#LayoutDiv1 {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#header {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#menubar {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#leftcontent {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#rightcontent {
    clear: both;
    float: right;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#footer {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
/* Desktop Layout: 769px to a max of 1232px.  Inherits styles from: Mobile Layout and Tablet Layout. */
@media only screen and (min-width: 769px) {
.gridContainer {
    width: 90%;
    max-width: 1232px;
    padding-left: 0.75%;
    padding-right: 0.75%;
    margin: auto;
    background: url(../images/DSC_0013.jpg) no-repeat center center fixed;
      -webkit-background-size: cover;
      -moz-background-size: cover;
      -o-background-size: cover;
      -background-size: cover;
#LayoutDiv1 {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#header {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 5%;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#menubar {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
#leftcontent {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 15%;
    width: 30%;
    display: block;
    padding-right: 2%;
#rightcontent {
    clear: none;
    float: right;
    margin-left: 1%;
    width: 49%;
    display: block;
    margin-right: 8%;
#footer {
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    display: block;
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