What do you mean by "properly"?
A background image will either tile (repeat accross and down the page) to fill a space larger than the image, or will cut off the area to the right and bottom to fill a smaller space. The image will _not_ shrink or stretch.
Use CSS to place the iamge on the page:
In the head of the page in code view, add
<style type="text/css">
body {background-color: white;
background-image: url(images/background.jpg)
}
</style>
The above goes just before the </head> tag.
The background color should be the same as the bulk of the image since it will show if the image doesn't.
images/background.jpg is the relative path and image name - relative from the page.
There are CSS commands to position the image and stop tiling - see the CSS tutorials at
http://www.w3schools.com for details.
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Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
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