hi, i go to this site and try to figure out how it was done, the images, but a lot of them cant be right clicked or saved, so i was wondering if they are even images. and when i do save some of the images. when i preview them they appear as a strip across the screen no matter what their shape is. and how the webmaster did this background if i cant right click and save the images. also if anyone has any idea of what kind of nice font that is. i was also wondering if the background is one giant image or in pieces. any help greatly appreciated. thanks . derek

here is the website.

http://arstechnica.com/index.ars

Could you link us to an example of a few images you were referring to?

Also some images are not click-able because they could be saved as a background via CSS.

their are now images like you are referring to.

That looks like a plain normal site without any exciting images to even try right click and save! Are you sure you linked to the right site?

im not sure the anwers to those questions, but my main question now is, do you think that main page was made with one giant background image, or with several images. im trying to learn how to build a site with images like that. anyway, when i right click and save one of the background images, when i look at them in photoshop, they show up as a solid long line instead. i dont know why. any help greatly appreciated thanks. derek

Ahh right!

It's a repeating background image, usually used for gradients.

You create the layout in an image editor with your gradient, vertically or horizontally then take a "slice" maybe 2 or 3 pixels wide (or high) and apply it to the background of the element, setting it to repeat in the "x" or "y" axis.

"x" axis is to repeat horizontally (a vertical image repeating Left - Right), "y" axis repeats vertically (a horizontal image repeating Top - Bottom)

body {
	background-image: url(/images/image.ext);
	background-repeat: repeat-y | repeat-x;
	
}

ok thank you very much for explaining that. thanks. derek