First of all hello everyone!

 

I'm just beginning designing websites and just encountered this problem. I'm designing a website in Dreamweaver CS3 that have a background made of a long thin strap and a table in the middle Something like this one

I would like to have another backgroud inside the table and it's a gradient one (attached one). Is it possible to create another "layer" in Dreamveaver for this background? I'd rather avoid creating the whole window as a picture and then cutting it

From your description I picture a long thin strip and a lovely oak table...

 

Basically I think you need to set the background of the body tag to be waht you want as the background of your page and then create a container that will contain your site and set the background of that to be your gradient...so for instance on one of my clients site I have the body tag set to be:

 

body {
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
color:#333333;
background: url(assets/rpt_page_bg.jpg) repeat-x;
min-width:780px;
font-size: small;
font-family: "trebuchet ms", "times new roman", times, serif;
text-align:center;
}

 

assets/rpt_page_bg.jpg is the graphic that creates the page background. In this instance I have it set to repeat-x as I just wanted this background to repeat horizontally along the top of the screen. Alternatively you can use repeat-y to make an image repeat vertically or no-repeat to make the image not repeat at all.

 

then in your case you would create a container id:

 

#container {
width: 780px;
margin: 0 auto;
background: url(assets/gradient.jpg) repeat-y;
}

 

and in your html you would link the style sheet to your html and then create a div with the container id and put your site elements in there:

 

<div id="container">
<p>your site content here</p>
</div>

 

Hope that helps to get you started.

Thanks a lot Eskymo. My dreamweaver teacher showed me another method to do it, I guess that yours is a bit more advanced. He said he will teach us your method later during the course. Looks like I need some more time to reach your level