Question Color bars repeating

[Walt Howe]

At 03:00 PM 10/22/1997 -0700, Libby Whitcomb wrote:
>A colleague of mine is working on a Web page.
>He has designed a page with a colored bar along the 
>left side. On his computer the graphic is showing up 
>just as it should. However, when we pull it up on my computer
>the bar on the left tiles again almost to the edge of the right side
>of the page. So that we see the red bar twice. 
>He is designing on an 800x 600 scale.
>Does anyone know of a solution so that this graphic
>would show up properly on a wide variety of resolutions?
>(640x 480, 800x 600 etc.)

As long as the graphic is used as a background, just make it at least 1024
pixels wide and it will take care of most viewers. Be sure it is a GIF, not
a JPEG, and the extra width won't make it much larger in filesize.





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