Help with website background problem

(nizza) wrote in news:3a15bcc6.0404281745.259fec49
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Hi – I hope someone here can help me out with this. We created a website using Photoshop and Dream Weaver. It’s 99% done and have loaded it and it’s "live". Once your on the website every time you click on a button to go to another page the background flashes bright white. The background is black and we would like it to stay black when changing pages.

No, the background is not black. The background is white, and your background image is black.

The html background shows before the background image loads. That’s the "flash".

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Thanks for any input and advice.

You bet.

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(nizza) wrote in news:3a15bcc6.0404281745.259fec49
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Hi – I hope someone here can help me out with this. We created a website using Photoshop and Dream Weaver. It’s 99% done and have loaded it and it’s "live". Once your on the website every time you click on a button to go to another page the background flashes bright white. The background is black and we would like it to stay black when changing pages.

No, the background is not black. The background is white, and your background image is black.

The html background shows before the background image loads. That’s the "flash".

<snip>

Thanks for any input and advice.

You bet.

Moreover, the menu shouldn’t be part of the background. For people with their resolution set to, oh, probably 1024 x 768 or greater, there are additional partial and nonfunctional copies of them. Very annoying.

The image area-and just the image area- should be inside a table (for centering) and the background color set in html, not be part of the image.

The background is black and we would like it to stay black when changing pages.

The background isn’t black, it’s white or the default color of whoever views it since you don’t have a color specified. The art you’re putting in the background of the page has a black background but the viewer doesn’t see it until it loads.

The coding you have:
body background="index.jpg"

The coding you need:
body bgcolor="#000000" background="index.jpg"

That needs to be in the body information on each page.

http://www.madmousergraphics.com
web design, print design, photography

(LauraK) wrote in message news:…

The background is black and we would like it to stay black when changing pages.

The background isn’t black, it’s white or the default color of whoever views it since you don’t have a color specified. The art you’re putting in the background of the page has a black background but the viewer doesn’t see it until it loads.

The coding you have:
body background="index.jpg"

The coding you need:
body bgcolor="#000000" background="index.jpg"
That needs to be in the body information on each page.

http://www.madmousergraphics.com
web design, print design, photography

Thanks for the help.

If I use the coding you suggested will it load the HTML background as black and not white?

If I use the coding you suggested will it load the HTML background as black and not white?

Yes. bgcolor means background color. #000000 is the hex number for black. In Dreamweaver, look on the right side for the Tag Inspector pallette. Scroll down until you see the word Body.
Click on that.
In the window below it, you’ll see a line for bgcolor — this is a separate line from background which should have index.jpg on it.
In the far right of the bgcolor space there’s a drop down menu for a color palette. Select black and you’ll see the background of the design window go black.
If you look at the Tag Inspector again, you’ll see it’s added that code (bgcolor="#000000") to the Body tag..

http://www.madmousergraphics.com
web design, print design, photography

Maybe if you set bgcolor="#000000" in your body tag, rather than loading "index.jpg" for a background (or perhaps use both). The flash could be a delay in loading the background image.
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Paul Cowan
www.iconix.biz

"nizza" wrote in message

Hi – I hope someone here can help me out with this. We created a website using Photoshop and Dream Weaver. It’s 99% done and have loaded it and it’s "live". Once your on the website every time you click on a button to go to another page the background flashes bright white. The background is black and we would like it to stay black when changing pages.

Anyone have an opinion on what we can do to make it change pages without getting that white flash?

The website is www.javabar.com – please check it out and see what I mean about the background when loading a new page.

Thanks for any input and advice.

Try setting bgcolor="#000000" in your body tag

—
Paul Cowan
www.iconix.biz

"nizza" wrote in message

Hi – I hope someone here can help me out with this. We created a website using Photoshop and Dream Weaver. It’s 99% done and have loaded it and it’s "live". Once your on the website every time you click on a button to go to another page the background flashes bright white. The background is black and we would like it to stay black when changing pages.

Anyone have an opinion on what we can do to make it change pages without getting that white flash?

The website is www.javabar.com – please check it out and see what I mean about the background when loading a new page.

Thanks for any input and advice.