Panoramic Layout - Background Issues Options

[SleepyWoodson]

The Image (under construction)

I've made a large panoramic view of a park. It's about 13,000px in width. The idea was to create a layout where you must scroll vertically and explore the layout. Unfortunately, I'm a novice when it comes to design.

What should I do about the background on MySpace? Should it just be the image set against a black background? Should it be shorter in length? I'm so clueless.

I'm not finished with the design itself, I want to add some animals, foliage, specialty trees and other crap.

I just want some feedback.

[fixtatik]

jeez, 2MB. neither photobucket nor tinypic will be able to handle that. photobucket will stop delivering it after 12 page views.

i strongly suggest trying to compress it more. for hosting it, there's microsoft's skydrive and adrive, which rockguy mentioned in a different thread. i'm not sure what the bandwidth limit on adrive is (or if there even is one), but skydrive isn't metered.

i didn't actually download the file, but what's the height of it? if it's tall enough you shouldn't even have to worry about using a background color (like 1200px). if it's less than 1200px, just use the color that you're using the most in the image. you might even want to blend the edges into that color. so it'll look nicer for people who have gigantic monitors.