Need Help With Site, Seriously. Options

[Kontroll]

Well, there's no site up. I've designed it and what not. I just am not so good with HTML and that all that jazz. If you want, I can post a picture of the design.

http://www.geocities.com/the_nore/Simplesliced.gif

That's pretty much it. I've touched it up a little bit.

What I need help with is how do I turn that into background? I've used Image Ready to slice the design up, so I have a pretty good sized source code for it. But everything is made of images. I don't wnat that.

Firstly....How do I make the images into background?

Secondly....How do I make make the text appear in the appropriate spots. Like where the links would go...Will it automatically put it right in that area? If it's off center or something like that, what would I do?

haha. Thanks.

[*Azarel*]

What I'd do in your case is create a header image of just the FCN banner & navigation; then I'd use an image map for the navigation (tutorials 1, 2, and 3).

For the background, I'd create a small image of the diagonal lines and repeat it in all directions (using css).

To position the text, I'd use div layers (tutorials 1 and 2, easier to learn) or tables (more organized).

Uhm. I know I explained that really badly, because you basically just asked how to code a page, which is a lot. Here is something I threw together that roughly looks like your image, just right click and view source.

[Kontroll]

Wow Azarel. Thank you. Much appreciated.

Also, I don't know if I made this clear or not, but where the links are I want those to be actual text.

Haha.

[*Azarel*]

I changed the navigation so that it's text; the way I coded it wasn't very professional, I know, but honestly after my day, I can't be bothered to do it the way that I know I've seen before. I probably wouldn't be able to do it anyway, but um... yeah. Just take the source.

To create links: <a href="URL HERE">Text that you want linked.</a>

[Kontroll]

Yeah. Thanks.

I am using Dreamweaver to code mine. Take a look at the site now. It's still not looking good, but it's getting there.

Question one...Here's a site for reference...www.tequalse.informe.com
How do I make it so that when you do a rollover the background changes color in the navigation bar?

Second Question. If you look at my banner, there is a light gray bar at the top of it. How do I make it so that where the navigation is, the background is transparent?

Sorry for the trouble, Azarel. I really appreciate your input, but I don't know. All this stuff doesn't seem to be helping with what I want. I know I basically asked you to code my site, but I'm really just looking for little details. I probably didn't make much sense when I was asking, but again, I do appreciate your input.

Oh, and also. The background. It's good, but I want it only as wide as the banner. How do I change that?