Can someone please help me i have a web site www.teessidehorents.co.uk and the back ground is shown as stripes. The background should look like this what is the problem.

 

Cheers

{note link to your website is www.teessidehornets.co.uk}

 

Your background image is

 

 

which repeated gives you the stripes you see

 

What you need is a single pixel wide/ screen height image repeated across the screen (below is the css and an example image)

 

body {
background-image:url(../images/grad.png);
background-repeat:repeat-x;
}