I am starting a new web site and can't get what posts on line to match what I'm seeing in VSD. I went to Start > Control Panel > Display > Resolution. My screen is set to "Small" which is 100%. The resolution is as high as it can go here on Windows 8. It's set to 1920 x 1080, which it recommends.
I'll attach two screen shots here. These will show what I see on VSD, including where and how it ends. Notice how centered the image and text is compared to the wallpaper. I have that set at 850 x 2500. Also, notice much space there is at the bottom left over.

Here are the two pictures of the same thing after it went on line. Notice how much blank space is on the right in the wallpaper, and also notice how the text ends right at the bottom of the page with no extra space left.

My other history page, www.mscivilwar.com looks fine in VSD and fine on the web.

Can we have a link to your site??

Also, look at the page properties and make sure you have "Center Design" checked.

I overlooked the "Center Design" check box. It's centered up now, but even through I reduced the width, the web site still looks much too wide. I wonder if that particular background is just going to expand to fill whatever size screen it recognizes.

www.coffeevillescrapbook.com

Thanks!
DS

I think Galen has nailed it. That's what it looks like to me.

http://gunsmoke.me/cloud/graphics/centerdesign.jpg

That last comment gave me an idea. I checked my Civil War page, www.mscivilwar.com and some other sites I have. The background always covers the whole screen. I guess it just looks funny with the vintage wallpaper pattern in www.coffeevillescrapbook.com.

Thanks again. If you see anything else I should know about, please send along.

DS

If you use a 'repeating' background image it will fill the whole screen, on any monitor. Your web page should still be centered on that screen if the 'Center Design' is checked.

Let us know if you need anything more.

Don, you could give your page a background color, such as white, then the pattern would only show beyond the page borders. You can find that option under Page Properties.
See an example here (white page over blue pattern):
http://line25.com/tutorials/basic-web-p … s-with-css

There's another nice trick to solve this problem and that is: make the background picture 'fixed', i.e. it doesn't move while somebody uses the scrollbar, only the content of the page scrolls up and down. You have to add a 'style' to the header to accomplish this
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<style type="text/css">
body {background-attachment:fixed;}
</style>

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copy the text inbetween the lines and paste it in the 'header' of your page. To do this, go to 'Edit' (in VSD of course), choose 'Edit header' and paste it there. Now you can make your page as long as you want and yet your background image will have no white spaces (if it is large enough of course to fill a large screen completely). It is static now.Thanks to Eric for this great tip. I use it all the time!

Success, John